Thread: hone ID help

Hi guys.

Can anyone help id this hone. It's 1.8" wide, 7.8" long and 0.5 deep. It seems hard.


If any additional images or info will help.please let me know

Could be a slate type, can you post some more daylight pictures ?

Originally Posted by doorsch

Could be a slate type, can you post some more daylight pictures ?

I'll add some with more natural lighting soon. I'm not sure it is skate though. It's very dark in colour, I always thought all varieties of slate had at least a hint of purple through to it?

Originally Posted by monkeypuzzlebeefeater

I'll add some with more natural lighting soon. I'm not sure it is skate though. It's very dark in colour, I always thought all varieties of slate had at least a hint of purple through to it?

There are all variants of slate beeing red, brown, violet, dark black to grey, green....

Would you be too upset if that was real YL? Congrats.

Lol. I wouldn't be upset at all. I put a few razors on it after my 8k Norton and it has improved the edge. Fairly slow, but highly polished bevel.

Could be a black Ark? Being he says it's a hard stone. I'm only looking at the pics on my phone so not sure if I'm missing any relevant visual details. BTW what is a "real YL?"

Real YL is one of the original Yellow Lakes (Llyn Melynllyn) not the fakes which are commonly sold in nowadays on bay.

Ah, gotcha.

Ok so a couple of daylight shots. They don't capture the colour very well. This done is much darker than it looks in the pictures. I would describe it as being black, although the pics make it look grey. The darker section on the side view is closer to the real colour.