Results 1 to 10 of 11
Thread: Found another hone. Need help
Hybrid View
-
04-05-2014, 08:01 PM #1
- Join Date
- Aug 2013
- Location
- NYC, NY
- Posts
- 1,496
Thanked: 169
This was my start point for the first photo.
-
04-07-2014, 09:40 AM #2
- Join Date
- Aug 2013
- Location
- NYC, NY
- Posts
- 1,496
Thanked: 169
-
04-07-2014, 09:42 AM #3
- Join Date
- Aug 2013
- Location
- NYC, NY
- Posts
- 1,496
Thanked: 169
-
04-07-2014, 09:46 AM #4
- Join Date
- Aug 2013
- Location
- NYC, NY
- Posts
- 1,496
Thanked: 169This hone is absolutely littered with irregular green blotches of all sizes throughout. More than the camera is successfully showing. I finished lapping it with some worn down 2000 grit on a very light slurry off the stone. It really brought out the fine details. It feels phenomenally fine. Took 5ish hours total to lap from a state similar to the gash-ridden non-working side. I wouldn't say it was back breaking to lap though. Vosgiennes seems to be the word on this.
-
04-07-2014, 01:22 PM #5
- Join Date
- Feb 2014
- Location
- Eindhoven, The Netherlands
- Posts
- 235
Thanked: 24after looking at all those nice pictures of how you brought the stone back to life I have to say I still don't know what the color is, is it gray, purple, green? I'm not the one capable of teling you what kind it is, the only thing that sprong to my mind was belgium blue but that seems verry unlikely whit those green spots, the only thing I can tell you with certainty is that it look prety to me, that's all
-
04-07-2014, 02:53 PM #6
Purple or Purplish slurry is usually a dead give away that it's a BBW or Belgian Blue Whetstone. In some of the pics, it certainly does look like one.
We have assumed control !
-
04-07-2014, 03:42 PM #7
- Join Date
- Apr 2012
- Location
- Diamond Bar, CA
- Posts
- 6,553
Thanked: 3215Looks similar to mine here, it should be a very nice finisher, post 8K stone. The slurry on mine looks more brownish, but you seem to have more green spots.
They are actually a pretty soft stone. I raise a thin slurry with a 1200 DMT and 2-3 drops of Smith’s Honing Solution thin the slurry to clear water and Smith. You can shave off the stone.
Equal to or better than an Escher edge.
Nice find.