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    Default Salmen's hone, London

    i recently acquired this beautiful, natural vintage hone from SALMEN'S of London, England. it lapped to a super fine finish, behaved like a dark blue Esher on the DMT coarse diamond stone. it is 8.0" long, 2.0" wide and 15/16" thick. the lapped surface feels as smooth as silk. does anyone know anything about this stone?
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    Good looking hone - congratulations!

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    Forgive the necromancy here but I was wondering if anyone might be able to shed any light on a stone I have that I believe is the same as this. I know Salmen sourced stones from various quarries in Wales, and the rest of the UK, and elsewhere in the world. So I don’t know if there’s any way of telling exactly what it might be...?

    Mine is 8x2x1/2”, and judging by the box can never have been much thicker. It’s quite fine, finishes a razor really quite well feeling almost Thuri-like in use, and notably very soft kicking up a lot of dark grey, almost black slurry as soon as an atoma hits it. Relatively dark blue-grey with some quite pretty kinda mottled 3d surface patterns when wet.

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    Last edited by cotedupy; 12-27-2021 at 12:12 PM.

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