Description
Thise ‘vintage’ (to humans’ time of extraction, not to the rocks’ time on the Earth!) Norton HB13 hard Arkansas stone’s 9x24x76mm, and was likely produced in the later 1980s to early 1990s. As shaped, it weighs 44.5g.
It isn’t even super profitable to list this for ya’ll – this stone cost $37.11 delivered to acquire, and I sunk in ~3hrs labor shaping/photographing/editing/uploading six pieces, heavy on the ‘shaping’ part. But they’re important to source and list because this tool /technique’s so damn good, at some point if they’re out there as finished devices for the end users it will be talked about on the shaving forums, and, maybe, help straight razors sell just a little better, because they shave more easily.
I’ve shaped this stone to have a 6.5’Øx25’Ø form down one ~24x76mm facet – the one without the NORTON writing – and one of the sides that is ~9x76mm has been shaped to have a 25’Ø down the 76mm axis and a 6.5’Ø across the 9mm axis.
You use this on straight razors like a file, as I’ve shown in the various recent YouTube videos.
