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Got my pocket microscope today and compared the scratch pattern of my phig and my CF. The scratches from the charnley seem to be more even and not as deep as the phig. The edge was also more even or...

Note sure, may by around 150?
Still waiting for my microscope so I can take a closer look at the scratch patterns.

Honed and shaved with it today and it's definitely a finisher.
It keept the sharpness coming of 1u lapping film but mellowed the edge out a bit. The shave wasn't as smooth as I would have liked but...

Oil it is then. :)
Will probably have an opportunity next week to try it out on a MK30.

There are quite a few red specks and streaks.

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It really doesn't matter if it's a CF or not but as I said earlier if it is I at least know it's a finisher. Will have to test it though....

It arrived today and I think it might actually be a Charnley after all.
Lapped it and got most of the oil out, smelled like WD-40. The cut out in the box is made after the stone so there is no...

Will do.
I have a Heljestrand MK30 waiting for it. Will try and find a decent USB microscope as well so I can see what happens with the scratch pattern.

Will do once it has arrived. Hopefully it's not glued to solid to the base and it is possible to get it out so I can see the full stone.

Yeah, I hope so to.
The name really doesn't matter for me either, it's just that with my little experience I would at least know if I bought a Charnley that it was a finishing stone.
But if it...

I have been looking for a Charnley Forest as a finisher for a while but the end price is just to high for me right now with summer coming up.
Yesterday I snagged this beautiful stone of the bay...