I'm assuming this is your Arkie, otherwise thats the darkest charnley I have ever seen.
I dont own an arkie.. its my charnley.. the larger one. Its a little lighter in person, but not pale green.
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I'm assuming this is your Arkie, otherwise thats the darkest charnley I have ever seen.
How ever many it takes. There is no answer there. Depends on a dozen variables. I could give you two razors and one could be finished on my 10" Charnley in twenty passes, the other would need a thousand.
That's a Washita in your picture SoldierDan. Looks like a really nice one. Probably a LWW if it was a Norton/Pike or a #1 if it was someone elses.
The big stone in Global_Devs image is a Charnley. Little one I'm not sure, looks like a La Lune probably.
Charnleys are pretty slow stones. Even huge, I wouldn't recommend using one as a finisher for a razor unless you were going to it after another stone that's a finisher in its own right. As an example, going Norton 8k to charnley would be tedious. Going from a 10k JIS stone to a Charnley would work alright (though honestly, my 10k JIS gives a better finish than my Charnleys). They're probably just a hair faster on avg than Cnats, though I can't say I ever really bothered to compare the two.
Just keep in mind that their performance varies. I have one that works very well as a finisher. I usually use it after a coticule and have seen it, at times, make an amazing improvement. I have found that it responds well to pressure a la trans ark.