Thread: What is known of the Durandal boxed brand stone? Just curious.

Here is an Ebay link:Antique Natural Grey Straight Razor Sharpening Honing Stone Waterstone Durandal | eBay

Thanks Gent's.

Good question. I had already seen that item and had wondered the same. Looks like slate. The label is French. You could PM Doorsch, he i pretty in the loop about hones from Europe.

I though it looked like a slate too Rezdog, somebody will come along with some knowledge of it.

Hard to say with those pictures, the seller describes the stone as a grey one...

My first impression is going to a Rouge du Salm; that stone is really different when it is wet and reveals its true pattern and "identity".

http://straightrazorpalace.com/hones...wetzstein.html

Originally Posted by guillaume

Hard to say with those pictures, the seller describes the stone as a grey one...

My first impression is going to a Rouge du Salm; that stone is really different when it is wet and reveals its true pattern and "identity".

http://straightrazorpalace.com/hones...wetzstein.html

Iam quite sure its a Rouge Du Salm, hard to see on the pics...but i had so many stones bought beeing described as grey, which were mostly in a reddish color...

You can see the reddish taint also on the pics, i think picture 11 shows it best....

Where does the Rouge Du Salm fit in a progression? Prepolisher or polisher?

Prepolisher definetly .

Originally Posted by RezDog

Where does the Rouge Du Salm fit in a progression? Prepolisher or polisher?

RusenBG got it right, although some can reach 7-8k I have one attached to a Vintage coticule, I remember that the shave of it was okay nothing special though, the other small one I have is finer but as I said nothing special

I say it depends...these stones seem to have been sold as finishers, and also as Tool stones...as mentioned earlier the finess depends for sure on the composition of the stone and probably where in the layer the stones have been taken out...

Most of them work as a 4k-8k stone on my opinion, used with oil and depending on the stone iam sure they can reach a equivalent 10k mark....

You guys are Great!!