Thread: French Hones

thick and sticky sludge?

Originally Posted by antoine46

thick and sticky sludge?

Yes slurry is created as fast as a Thuringian very fine slurry, when dry it feels like baby powder....

It gets more and more thick and sticky using the DMT after 15sec....

Even then pebbles : Beer1:

Originally Posted by doorsch

Looking around today on the Italian Internet i found a source of natural stones shown on a museum site. Actually there showed up an Ineresting stone quite comparable in appearance to the "French Mystery" stones. Also having certain plant inclusions and quite fitting in color...

The most interesting for me was that this type of stone was used for honing razors as they describe it on their site...

So mostly the stone doesnt fit here because its the french Hones thread and the origin is Italy, but as i find it resamples the "Mystery Stones" quite well....and on the other Side iam happy that i probably found another razor hone ;-)

Picture:
Museo di Storia Naturale dell'Accademia dei Fisiocritici - MUSNAF Siena, Italy-Immagini Marmi Antichi

Nome: Scisto argilloso usato per affilare i rasoi
Provenienza: Casa al Cerro, Casole d'Elsa
Misure: 118x87x19
N° d'inventario: 2955
Note: Sul campione etichetta "O 4".

All information was taken from here:
Museo di Storia Naturale dell'Accademia dei Fisiocritici - MUSNAF Siena, Italy-Catalogo Marmi Duomo

Charlie found a reference on googlebooks :

Another La Lune without label its 12x6x2,5cm....

"Pierre Aux Croissants" (listed as a concurrent of "La Lune")
"Super Fine"

I flattened the bottom (mostly, not entirely finished yet), and protected the sticker with transparent nail polish

Hard, fast stone, full of silver sparks (and a few gold ones), gives a bit of white-ish slurry after a while.
Honing results are truly very excellent!

Originally Posted by Fikira

"Pierre Aux Croissants" (listed as a concurrent of "La Lune")
"Super Fine"

I flattened the bottom (mostly, not entirely finished yet), and protected the sticker with transparent nail polish

Hard, fast stone, full of silver sparks (and a few gold ones), gives a bit of white-ish slurry after a while.
Honing results are truly very excellent!

The most intesting is the label and the stamp for me, i have to admit that this one reminds me more on a Pierre Aiguiser Naturelle de Saurat then on a Special Stone.....

Originally Posted by doorsch

The most intesting is the label and the stamp for me, i have to admit that this one reminds me more on a Pierre Aiguiser Naturelle de Saurat then on a Special Stone.....

Do you mean like the "Pierre de la Pyrénées"? I didn't know they had such fines stones there if that is the case!

Do you mean like the "Pierre de la Pyrénées"? I didn't know they had such fines stones there if that is the case!

Those are colectable , rare , specimens , labels , history , we dont understand that . This one is not for honing . Only for exposure .
They had stamps and those kind of brrrr ........ ya . They are colectors items . if you use them , stamps and labels will be gone and its another ordinary hone .

Originally Posted by Fikira

Do you mean like the "Pierre de la Pyrénées"? I didn't know they had such fines stones there if that is the case!

I dont think its one bit it looks like one...