Thread: Mystery hone incoming

These are the hones I keep in my room at work the larger one is a barber hone the other 2 are the slates that aj sells on ebay, from England somewhere, Wales I think. His ones come in a few sizes, mine are the smaller ones, they are finished on both sides. So I don't think it is one of his. The middle one is coarser than the outside one, the middle one is a purpley grey colour and the other one is a brownish colour.

I'm going to say it's a slate hone, in the 5-6k range. I say this because I have just that, and this looks very similar. I found mine in wild, and haven't put it into any of my honing progressions. Even at 5-6k, it's a slow cutter. That being said, I hope it's not that, a you end up with a nice finisher. Fingers crossed!

Originally Posted by HARRYWALLY

I'm going to say it's a slate hone, in the 5-6k range. I say this because I have just that, and this looks very similar. I found mine in wild, and haven't put it into any of my honing progressions. Even at 5-6k, it's a slow cutter. That being said, I hope it's not that, a you end up with a nice finisher. Fingers crossed!

This might be a clue to the stone, possibly not a good one in terms of a finisher:
Here are two pics of the wood box...actually a nifty box, might be done with a very sharp chisel, by a woodworker...anyway
I'm hoping if this stone was used with oil, the wood would be considerably more stained at the ends. So fingers crossed on that one also...

I hope it works out to be a good one. I took a chance a long while back on one which was totally gray/black as I received it.

I have been leery of those in the old, wooden boxes ever since. Still a good knife hone, however!

http://straightrazorpalace.com/hones...ne-please.html

Originally Posted by FAL

Hmm, well, when the stone comes look for little black speckles in it, will be helpful for identifying it, did you do what I did and Hope for a thuringian? Yep, I have to admit it, turns out a Gent here sold it to the Ebay re-seller who leaves the seed of ? in his Almost,,,,,,,, deceptive ads. PM me if you want to discuss.

Did he sell you that stone as a thuri? If he did then I apologize....I never thought about it going to a reseller. I most definitely did not list it as a thuri in my listing.

Originally Posted by WW243

I did not use magical thinking regarding this hone. In other words, I didn't hope it was any hone I knew about, be it Thuringian, French hone, Belgian hone. I just thought it looked like something worth gambling on. I can check the hone for rough grit size, as I have a nice quiver of synthetics. If the seller has tried to mislead me with the 12K claim and he is off by half. We will negotiate.
I didn't understand your statement about the Ebay reseller and the member being in collusion with him. You can elaborate if you care to.

I'm the member here he's speaking of, but there is NO collusion between me and that guy. I've never spoken to the guy and the only dealing I've ever had with him with selling him that stone, which I made no illusion of being a thuri or any other type of stone for that matter. I listed it as a vintage hone.
Some of these guys crack me up. I saw a B-hone listed a while back as a "Vintage razor hone Escher thuringian Coticule"? Lol

Originally Posted by sharptonn

I hope it works out to be a good one. I took a chance a long while back on one which was totally gray/black as I received it.

I have been leery of those in the old, wooden boxes ever since. Still a good knife hone, however!

http://straightrazorpalace.com/hones...ne-please.html

I checked for saw marks, which it has...still doesn't say much. I seem to have this ability to find odd stuff...I wonder why?
As you know Tom, the last few times into the Bazaar I have been kneecapped. I might be on a roll. It might take a new wooden box to get over an old wooden box

With brown he probably mentioned purplish, they look brown then and on pictures they look Grey.
I have old fine UK stones like that, with some Green impulses on a few of the stones.

Good stones but I hope you didn't pay to much

You can check this thread
http://straightrazorpalace.com/hones...ural-hone.html

I am sorry that all my pics links are gone in old posts since the service provider deleted my account..

Originally Posted by Dcaddo1

Did he sell you that stone as a thuri? If he did then I apologize....I never thought about it going to a reseller. I most definitely did not list it as a thuri in my listing.

That is correct, you have NO blame, the "other guy" was marginal in his pics and the way he wrote the ad to leave one to suspect a thuringian, my opinion.