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What's your best LOOKING finisher?

After a lot of work at honing I can finally say I'm very happy with the edges I can put on with a few different stones. I have successfully achieved 2 or 3-pass BBS shaves with a number of finishers, including several different coticules, a couple different Thuringians, a Charnley, a Tam O'Shanter, and several different barber hones (with the Frictionite 00 and Lakeside being my favorite).

Now, even though I prefer my Charnley edges to others that I have done, I still use the others stones often just for enjoyment or aesthetic purposes. So that got me thinking about how if I can get acceptable or even good edges out of a bunch of different stones, then the visual appearance of a stone really starts to matter (at least to me). My question is this: If we were to define a finisher as anything that improves the edge of a Norton 8k, what is your best LOOKING finishing stone? I would love to see some images of real beauties and exemplars from a lot of you, and if you're like me I know you have some pride in the stones you have collected, harbored, and maintained and many have considered this question before.

Then maybe we can have a poll for who owns the "Helen of Troy" finishing stone. Oh, and Seraphim if you want to post some of your gorgeous "lapping film"...go ahead :)

My best looking finishing stone is my Tam O'Shanter (yes, it's a finisher).

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I love the look of my CNAT:
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and I don't know if you can see this very well, but there is a beauty in a surgical black with oil on it. It's what I think of when I read of Vetinari's* stygium signet ring. It's like it goes through black and out the other side.
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*nod to Pratchett fans everywhere.
 
Beautiful. Looks like birds flying over a beach on a grey afternoon.

After a lot of work at honing I can finally say I'm very happy with the edges I can put on with a few different stones. I have successfully achieved 2 or 3-pass BBS shaves with a number of finishers, including several different coticules, a couple different Thuringians, a Charnley, a Tam O'Shanter, and several different barber hones (with the Frictionite 00 and Lakeside being my favorite).

Now, even though I prefer my Charnley edges to others that I have done, I still use the others stones often just for enjoyment or aesthetic purposes. So that got me thinking about how if I can get acceptable or even good edges out of a bunch of different stones, then the visual appearance of a stone really starts to matter (at least to me). My question is this: If we were to define a finisher as anything that improves the edge of a Norton 8k, what is your best LOOKING finishing stone? I would love to see some images of real beauties and exemplars from a lot of you, and if you're like me I know you have some pride in the stones you have collected, harbored, and maintained and many have considered this question before.

Then maybe we can have a poll for who owns the "Helen of Troy" finishing stone. Oh, and Seraphim if you want to post some of your gorgeous "lapping film"...go ahead :)

My best looking finishing stone is my Tam O'Shanter (yes, it's a finisher).

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I don't know that this is actually the 'best looking' finisher.
Plus - it's a well rounded stone so it's not 'just' a finisher.
But - it kicks *** from A-Z so...

Ozuku and friends

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Possibly prettier - beauty is in the eye of the beholder though. Again- not purely a 'finisher'. Okudo Suita & Tomo

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I don't know that this is actually the 'best looking' finisher.
Plus - it's a well rounded stone so it's not 'just' a finisher.
But - it kicks *** from A-Z so...

Ozuku and friends

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Possibly prettier - beauty is in the eye of the beholder though. Again- not purely a 'finisher'. Okudo Suita & Tomo

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Wow, that Okudo Suita is just stunning. It belongs on the planet Arakis...it looks like spice melange "He who controls the spice, controls the universe".
 
Don't want to seem narcissistic but I think I'm my best looking finisher! ;)

gamma, your second jnat looks like a huge block of nougat.... Beautiful.

Ok here's mine, the one in the middle.
 

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Awesome cotis, I'm assuming that's a La Veinette in the middle? Love me some manganese.
 
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