Ivory Nusantara Super Fine Grit 8x3x1” 0152

These new Super fine Nusantara Ivory stones are certain to impress! We love the excellent balance of properties they possess which makes them truly a world class sharpening stone.
Here is what you can expect during usage, 
This is on a scale of 1 to 5 
Hardness level -                            5
Grit fineness level -                     5++
Cutting speed with slurry -     4.5
Cutting speed with water -     4+
These stones are part of our newest collection and an exciting development in the Indonesian mining of the Nusantara Natural Whetstones. 
We are very proud to be the soul USA distributor of these incredible sharpening stones. 
The newest strata that is being cut out of the top of the mountain at the mining location are white to gray ivory, with incredible patterns and colors developing in them from trace minerals. There are streaks of blue, gold and hints of a rusty brown that mix together to form incredible works of art.
The Super Fine White Ivory stones have an exceptional balance of hardness grit and cutting speed. 
These stones shine as a finishing whetstone. They come supplied with a small slurry stone, which you can use to dress the surface when it begins to slow down in cutting speed, as well as create mud to increase its cutting power with slurry. These stones are fast enough to take a straight razor from a 1000 grit bevel setting range straight through mid range polishing and onto finishing. You will get the finest results with light sharpening strokes and water or a slowly generated slurry which gives a creamy sensation and soft feedback with a very faint raspy sound.
Over all this is an excellent choice for the enthusiast who wants a stone that is hard to gouge into and a very dense material with extremely high concentrations of cutting particles. Even in a professional knife shop that sees hundreds of sharpening sessions a month this stone will last many decades - or multiple lifetimes for the average end user.