Wow, if your 3 line is that coarse, you definitely got one from a bad batch! I have a 3 line that I recently picked up and aside from the brown color, the appearance of the hone and it's fineness reminds me of a high grit ceramic stone. If the swaty was white instead of brown, with it's mottled appearance, I would even say it looks identical to somewhere between my Shapton 8k and Shapton 16k! By far the smoothest and hardest barber hone I have personally owned.
Interestingly, if you look at the back of the 3rd edition of Straight Razors, there is an old advertisement for instructions on honing, some hone refresher and something else. In that same offer back then.....they also say that they include a Swaty (I think it's a 3 line IIRC) for free. That's right, they GAVE AWAY swatys as part of an offer for something else.
Chris L
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