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Although given the seemingly North American nature of the order it has me imagining him using one of the abbey doorsteps as one. In the Ardennes, in Belgium, where coticule razor hones are mined, it's not uncommon for old houses to have a large piece of the stone as a doorstep.

The USA has some phenomenal sharpening stones, whether in the form of the quartz sandstone of Arkansas stones out west or the micaceous schist of the famous Pike classic Indian Pond in the east, among many others. I can just imagine the structure being made of something suitably large and abrasive!