Thread: New hone! Massive stone.

I found this massive old hone in the local fleemarket. Only 6 $! It's 24 cm x 8,7 cm wide and 2 cm thick.

It's a thüringian hone, black slate.

The slurry is light grey. I have a black Escher and they look identical.

I honed the razor on the the picture, a nice ATOR Ern razor. It turned wicked sharp! Popping arm hair 0,5 cm over the skin. Isn't it just great? I lapped it flat on a glass plate with 400k sanding paper.

The hone is dampened on some of the pictures.

Can anyone ID the hone?

I can't ID it but years ago I did have a Honenzollern that was very dark grey and when it was wet was black. Might be in the same family.

From where is that black Escher ? Does this one have a Label ?

Its quite a unusual size for a Thuringian....
Any Sawmarks ?

Its likely an actual slate hone. As many here can attest, they are often surprisingly good at making things sharp.

I wonder if the pictures are Spiderman inspired.

Interesting size. I would personally say a slate rather than Thuri. But it can still be great hone.

It looks identical to the 8x3 black hones that come from one of the euro sellers on ebay (or at least used to) that were MST thuringians. How much thuringians those MSTs were, I don't know, but the one I had couldn't finish a razor - the particles were large and sparkly giving that mottled surface look. It did, however, make for a very inexpensive prep stone that got a razor ready for a finisher, or maybe a little closer to it. I was surprised how large the particles were, though, given accounts that it was an "8000 grit equivalent" stone (it wasn't).

IIRC, there were other attestations to hair popping sharpness, etc, but having tried almost everything under the sun, that's a pretty low grade test compared to shaving an ATG pass and expecting no pull. A soft arkansas will cause hair popping easily despite the edge being very coarse.

I'd have probably bought that stone for $6, anyway, just because....well, it's $6 and it's a whole big stone. I remember the ebay stones being about $25, and some very unscrupulous retailers on the internet were selling them for a high price.

The size of the stone pictured is nothing like the MST stones that were being offered. But as Dave mentions, the only true test is on the face!

Yeah, it's a little bigger, but about the same thickness. The stone I had measured almost exactly 8x3. I might be using the wrong name. Mine came from europe somewhere, but I can't remember the name of the seller, and had an identical look to the surface.

It's possible that the stones varied widely in grit size, I guess. I haven't seen an account by anyone who has used a bona fide razor stone (like a y/g thuri) say that they were close with the black ones, though.