Black Shadow & Green Shadow Hone Set - French Fine Razor Hones Sharpening Stones with Slurry Stone

  This set of Black Shadow & Green Shadow hones is an affordable and versatile set of fine French hones to add to your honing regimen. The Black Shadow is a slightly softer (but still hard) slate with more tactile feedback on steel when honing while the Green Shadow is harder and offers the ultimate finish while still retaining a velvety feedback (not too glassy feeling).Both would make excellent finishers for refreshing a tired edge or a powerful finishing pair when used after a coticule, 5-8k synthetic hone, etc. in a honing progression. The Green Shadow & Black Shadow hones are both a slate type stone They both come from a private family land in France composed in particular of slate of different grains allowing the harvesting of the entire Shadow range. Grit:Black Shadow - Grain of 8000-10000 grit, dense and hard stone for finishing razors, knives or other tools (gouges, wood chisels) Green Shadow - Grain of 12000-15000 grit, very dense and hard stone for finishing razors,