Thread: Ebay unidentified hone!!

Easy you two! Lets not get too worked up about a rock and it's origins.

I'm a happy man with this stone.

It does have a slight rubbery feel to it as you hone. Not in the sense of it been soft and deforming, But the resistance the stone gives on the stroke is high but not rough. That smooth resistance feels rubbery, in a similar way to rubbing your finger on a wet bathroom tile. You know the surface is smooth and hard, but the water and the finger have a kind of suction that is difficult to express, it's not outright suction, and it's not outright resistance but something eldritch in the middle.

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The pair of you need to calm down a bit, I'm not interested in knowing the hole this stone came out of. If there were others like it then that would be helpful and the silkstone is similar in a lot of respects. There are other stones that it could also be, or it could be a random localised erratic.

What I am interested in is sharing what I picked up, and having you guys all take a guess at what it might be. I fully understand that even a fully labeled and boxed hone may still be something other than what it is supposed to be, It's the nature of natural stone.

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Neil and Sebastian you two are superb, and without debate there is no chance of ever reaching a solution, I respect both of your opinions equally and if I take anything away from this thread it should be this.

This stone is natural, Possibly a silkstone, Possibly some other slate. It has characteristics that link it to the higher quality slate type stones that have been sold as top end products in the UK. The stone itself should only be graded by it's performance and in this case this stone seems to be a performer.

I have no plans to sell this rock, and did not post my thread to fish for my ebay description! I do not care if there is no logical outcome or even if the stone is so unique that it cannot be identified at all.

I also love the fact this has caused a debate, But please keep things from getting personal. Facts and speculation are something I don't mind, But once it gets out of a logical debate then it's time to pause and think about what you actually want to write rather than what you feel you should.