At a neighborhood garage sale this weekend, I came across this stone in a pile of old tools and junk.
I asked the sellers about it and they had no clue of it's origin. For a buck, I snagged it plus a few other odds & ends.
It was a dark stone, covered with grime and dust. I rinsed it off and snapped this shot:
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The stone is 1-7/8" wide and 5.0" long; nearly 3/4" thick at its densest part. It shows wear in the middle section on one side.
I brought out my DMT and began lapping and rinsing one side and continued on the sides. This revealed the following:
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Obviously a double-sided two-grit stone, difficult to distinguish in the original found state. Much greater wear on the coarser side.
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The coarse side is quite 'coarse' (300?) whereas the smoother side (shown close-up below) feels in the neighborhood of a Norton 1k...
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The smooth side yields a very thin slurry initially, but with some effort thickens up nicely.
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So for a buck, I have a new stone.
I don't know if I have anything of practical value with regards to razor honing until I do some side-by-side tests with some other stones.