As a quick edit, I washed the go stones last night with some dishwashing detergent. After drying, I applied some baby oil by hand and rubbed them clean with some clean kitchen towels. They kept their nice matte look and now smell a little bit like baby oil. (Basically they look the same but don't smell weird any more)
Also, I can run my hands through them in the bowl now without the blackboard-scratching feeling. I guess they just needed a bit of oil to get rid of the scratchiness.
It took an hour and a half of oiling and polishing to get the black stones done. I was doing them one or two at a time until I figured that just rubbing handfuls of oily stones in the towel worked just as well, (just enough so that the stones didn't scratch and rub each other) else it would have taken over 2 hours. In comparison, I oiled and polished the white stones in about 15 or 20 minutes.
Allen.
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