Thread: French Hones

Interesting Stone!! Any identifiers towards a Coticule ?

I' d say no at a first look, the slurry is really different; the grit would be a little bit finer, (actually it depends on coticule of course)

very strange and very beautiful
it looks like a mixture of several stones
which country has t she was found

Hello Antoine!

From France!!! It looks like a cousin of our french unknown stones

hi Guillaume
well I say otherwise our unknown stones have a very thick and greasy mud
your stone looks like a mixture of several stones but I will say for Vogienne
but one could see inside of Lorraine (rougre) and even the Red Salm

Originally Posted by guillaume

Flame hone? Fine; found in a barber/Hair dresser old box from early 20e th century:






Strange...

Looks beautiful. A Belgian silkvein?

Anybody any idea on this one, as i got this one from france and as ive never seen one of those on any other country i just thought it might fit in here....

Its a very hard stone, just from the touch it feels very smooth. It first reminded me on a type of A very fine turkey oilstone...but it has not the typical structure and talking about the inclusions which are often visible on those....

It slurries very fine, actually it does not works very fast...its also with slurry a very slow stone and actually nearly no swarfing is visible...

Lapping it smells kinda strange, earthy with a touch of sulfur is my description.

It is very compact but it seems to be a slate type stone as the edge shows a certain slaty structure...

Any ideas or any comparable stones anybody ?

Hi Sebastian;
Are you sure it's not man made? I’ve only smelled sulfur one time on a natural and it was a very soft type of mudstone. Sulfur mineral is used in vulcanizing and or helping other chemicals cross link in the batch….
MIke

Originally Posted by MODINE

Hi Sebastian;
Are you sure it's not man made? I’ve only smelled sulfur one time on a natural and it was a very soft type of mudstone. Sulfur mineral is used in vulcanizing and or helping other chemicals cross link in the batch….
MIke

Yeah its 100%natural...probably sulphur was not the correct Term...earthy and a certain smell...its probably comparable when fireworks started or when you hit two pieces of flint together....it is a bit like the VMA Pierre Affutage, but less intense and different....

The smell comes when using a DMT and slurry is created....its more an earthy smell but a small amount of this "special" smell....

hi doorsch
I do not recognize this stone
are you sure she's French and if so in what Regions it would