Originally Posted by
Neil Miller
I only made reference to the colour of the wrapper, and that I qualified by mentioning that the silkstone box had writing on three sides.
All the other info re silkstones was just to correct wrong and mis-information, and I am sure that most of the people reading this are aware of that fact.
Even if Icenis hone had the samecharacteritics and was the same size as the silkstone we are familiar with, it would still be an unidentified hone.
To be honest, even the silkstone is an unidentified hone. Silkstone is just a name, and as I postulated a long time ago, cambrock is probably a made up name too. We have no idea where in the UK the silkstone came from.
I suppose that in essence what I am saying is that even if Icenis hone was exactly similar to the sikstone, then all we could say about it is, as Donald Rumsfeld have it, it is a 'known unknown'...
At the moment all the two share, as I pointed out at the beginning of this thread, is the same coloured wrapper.
Anything else would be, at best, a guess. And in a field where even the same type of stone varies wildly in its honing properties and characteristics, a guess is next to useless.
Regards,
Neil