Thread: What have I bought this time?

Just got this in shipped from Pennsylvania. I won it on E-Bay and I was first reluctant to buy it. But now that I have it here to see it and handle it first hand I am so glad that I bought it. The person that sold it to me said she won it in an Amish auction in Pennsylvania. She believed it to be either a large hone or an Amish buggy heater that was hung over a fireplace till it got hot and then put in a horse pulled buggy to keep warm. I believe the first assumption is true. This hone is huge and it is a natural Yellow/Green Thuringian! I have compared it to my other Thuringian hones and it is exactly the same material, it has the same smell and slurries very fast with 1000 grit sandpaper. The slurry is whitish and the color of this hone is yellowish-green and very smooth. I will put up some pictures for hone porn and for expert inspections. By the way this thing is 12 x 8 x 1 1/4 inches and weighs in excess of 12 pounds, just amazing! NOW WHAT DO I DO WITH IT? LOL

I watched that auction and the whole time tried to figure out just what that was! Very nice score!

i guess you could cut it and have many hones, perhaps sell some off and recoup some cash or use it to hone really big razors.

HAHAHAHAHA!!!

That's a bed warmer! you put it on the top of the woodstove, and heated it up, tossed it in the bed, and prewarmed it before you went to sleep!

typically made of soap stone, not hard enough to be a good hone in my opinon

Tried to lap it with a DMT 325 but I think I will just lap it the easy way, where's that belt sander at?

The belt sander did the trick,finished it off with 1000 grit w/d sandpaper. Now it looks like a big mofo hone!

As Magpie said is a bedwarmer,most likily a pce of common slate as most were.

Well...winter is coming, so it still has a purpose...

You could try to use it on one of your cheapest razor...maybe not to set the bevel but treating it like if it was a 10 or 12k hone...


Disclaimer: I know nothing about honing, just wanted to give my two cents on the matter...

Just finished a razor on it and it performed great!!