Canoe stones

Of the available canoes, I would opt for only two: The Angelo B. Electrite Carborundum as a coarse and the Falci Original Carborundum as a medium.
 
My own preferences are for the Bull Thistle and Arctic Fox stones, but I designed 'em myself so there's a reason for that. :p
 
The Bull Thistle Im thinking might be kinda too course for my needs, but I dont know. Is it for heavily dinged up blades that hit rocks?
 
The Bull Thistle is a coarse grit, but a deliberately slow cutter for its grit rating. Its primary purpose is for routine bevel maintenance (when your edge becomes over-rounded from repeated fine honing) and for setting an aggressive slicing scratch pattern. It's good for removing minor dings, but isn't for ultra-fast damage removal like the Manticore is. And yes, we'll eventually have a canoe stone in the Manticore line.
 
The Arctic Fox series does have 2x8 stones--they're just not up on the site yet. They only landed on Monday and we're still in process with getting them up. We do have plans on producing some higher grit SiC stones in future, but for a progression off the Manticore you can use something like the Bull Thistle followed by the Arctic Fox. We'll eventually have field and bench stones in the Bull Thistle series; we're just not quite there yet. There will also be other series introduced down the line, they're just not ready for action yet.
 
FortyTwoBlades said:
The Arctic Fox series does have 2x8 stones--they're just not up on the site yet. .
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I want to place a order for items so I'll wait till the 2x8" Arctic Fox Combos are up on your site and maybe when you get some lansky canoes in.

I was looking at the Falci Manaresso Guistina. What steel is that, do you know? Is it spring steel or 1075-1095 or?
 
The 2x8 Arctic Fox stones aren't a combination stone. The area of them is too big and so the differential in the shrink rate between the two sides during firing pulls them apart--single grit was the only way to produce them.

As far as the Falci manaresso goes, I sold out of those just a few days ago. Falci doesn't specify their steel, but it's some sort of medium- to high-carbon steel that's appropriate for its application.
 
Yes, but they won't be in stock for about two months. It takes a long time for stuff to get to us from Italy.
 
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