Description
This ‘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 44.9g.
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 ~9x76mm facet, and a 25’Øx6.5’Ø form down the other ~9x76mm facet. The facet with the more intense curvature down the ~3″ length (= the shorter effective diameter) is the one that is ‘above’ the NORTON writing. You’ll use that side first to rub on the straight razor’s bevel, and then use the 25’Ø side to polish that work.
You use this on straight razors like a file, as I’ve shown in the various recent YouTube videos.
