Thread: Unknown stone. ID please.

I'm from the uk so I think this stone might be too. I think its a natural stone. Its a soft stone thats dark gray almost black. I've lapped it to 600 on wet and dry paper.



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I was told to post here by UKRob on another forum.

looks like a Welsh Slate type of hone, I would guess a Dragon Togue when looking at the colors in your second image, it looks like it has been abused quite a bit, where did you get it?

It's darker then my DT and a softer. It came from a carboot (like a flea market) in Norwich. This is what it looked like when I got it.

There are many slates of different characteristics available in UK. What is the size?

Its about 250mm x 50mm x 24mm

Looks to be welsh slate.

You can get 3 in a bulk pack off ebay pretty cheap.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/LARGE-8X3-WE...-/171288468596

Originally Posted by lexx

I'm from the uk so I think this stone might be too. I think its a natural stone. Its a soft stone thats dark gray almost black. I've lapped it to 600 on wet and dry paper.



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I was told to post here by UKRob on another forum.

From the first look there is quite a good chance that this is a thuringian. The overall appearances fits, the breakouts are very typical and the form and depth of the scratches is typical - at least for a slate hone. From the color i tis hard to say, better take pictures on a black background. But I got quite a lot of thuringian that would look exactly the same being photographed on this surface. Some pics of the hone sides could help!

If that was up to me there would be two options:
1. unknown UK slate cut to size for specific purpose.
2. for me more probable would be Thuri type hone due to coloring, softness, slurry and size.

As with mentioning genuine LM and DT - not fakes often sold on bay. They are different hones even though they are not from one quarry and also so far LMs have quite specific sizes.

I got a fellin I know what it is Lexx,,,wanna know,,,