ARKANSAS SLIP STONES - Boxed sets of natural Arkansas slip stones. Sets of 4
Best quality stones with a high degree of hardness and thus excellent service life.
In a wooden case. Flat-pointed straight back, flat-pointed round back, knife-shaped, flat-skewed rounded back.
58 x 23 x 6 mm.

Fine-grained, extremely wear-resistant honing stones, for use with an oil lubricant. Due to their high degree of hardness particularly well-suited for polishing curved cutting edges. The sharpening stones we offer have a uniform structure and are crack-free. They originate from quarries in the Ouachita Mountains in Arkansas (USA), that unfortunately are almost depleted.

Arkansas Grades - (pronounced Arkansaw)
Soft - typically a mottled appearance
Hard - white
Harder - black aka surgical black
Hardest - translucent

Quality of Natural Stones
For many years, the Belgian coticule and Arkansas stones have been synonymous with high-quality whetstones. But these stones are natural products. Due to limited resources, the quality of these stones may increasingly vary. Japanese waterstones with fine grain structures are recommended as an alternative.