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    Hello gentlemen.

    I just bought this fine hone from the bay. It was simply listed oilstone. I thought it was a Charnley Forest, but when I cleaned it up and lapped it I could see I wasn't.

    It got the right colours but it's a soft hone, a kind of slate. It feels like my coticules, but don't self slurry at all. The slury looks just like my Eschers.

    It's a finisher, but not the same high end as a thüringian.

    There is a label but it's hard to read. What I can read says:

    Made in England
    Wm. Marple .......
    .....ld end
    S....... Brand
    ..........tools

    I do hope somebody can help.
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    Hi Kristian this mostly resamples a Llyn Idwal Stone on the first look, as mentioned probably a Charnley....

    I will add some pics later of some typical Idwal pattering....

    Can you add some macro/detail shots of the surface ?
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    It's a soft hone... Not hard at all...

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    Here are some pics of Idwall Stones, the left one shows comparable properties but seems also to be more a slate type stone....

    The Llyn Idwall (Novaculite of Kirwan) is as the name states a Novaculite Type Stone. The stone is quite brittle and has a flakey look a like on certain areas.



    Here you can see the flaking:


    Thats how the slurry looks, these stones do not autoslurry. The slurry was created with a DMT 1200 and took around 25 laps.



    Wm Marples & Sons. Seems to be an old UK tool maker/trader...they had the Shamrock Brand Logo. Check, here are some comparable labels talking about color and writing like the one on your box
    http://www.oldtools.co.uk/tools/Marples.html
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    Very interesting
    I have stone that looks the same. And it's quite different from my 8 LI and 6 CF.
    It's like LM, but a little bit faster and it has different behavior while sharpening.
    Nice honest worker.

    Could you post a bigger image with label?

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    I have a few that are similar, but I do not know for definite what they are:

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    The one laying vertically on the far left, the one partially under the bottom wooden paddle, and the one on the paddle itself.

    All appear to be very soft. The one just under the paddle gives a so-so finish while the other two (vintage) hones give a much more refined edge to the razor. The one on the paddle seems to be the finest. It produces a creamy slurry with barely a hint of green.

    None of them appear to novaculites, nor very highly indurated slate. They do appear to have the qualities of certain slate honestones like thuringians, but obviously they are not thuringians.

    Lord knows what they are!

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    Here's a couple of closeup shots. One of the surface and on of the label.
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    Quote Originally Posted by doorsch View Post
    Here are some pics of Idwall Stones, the left one shows comparable properties but seems also to be more a slate type stone....

    The Llyn Idwall (Novaculite of Kirwan) is as the name states a Novaculite Type Stone. The stone is quite brittle and has a flakey look a like on certain areas.



    Here you can see the flaking:


    Thats how the slurry looks, these stones do not autoslurry. The slurry was created with a DMT 1200 and took around 25 laps.



    Wm Marples & Sons. Seems to be an old UK tool maker/trader...they had the Shamrock Brand Logo. Check, here are some comparable labels talking about color and writing like the one on your box
    http://www.oldtools.co.uk/tools/Marples.html
    Amazing. It's the same label. Fantastic that only minutes after a question is asked highly competent answers appear. Will still need a positive ID but it looks like a unknown hone. Interesting.

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    That looks like William Marples...now known as Marples tools I believe under that it says Sheffield, Eng..... the last phrase if its like lots of marples stickers is well made tools

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