Thread: Thuringian like stone Pic heavy

Now i whant to present a stone that i colected fron a mountain peac , here in Bulgaria .
It is a some kind of mud slate - very fine and silica rich It is a soft stone , but it reminds m of a blue thury and the edges it gave are exeptional This stone is a full size and i love it a lot - practicaly i gave all my thuringians , as this piece gave the exact same edge as them , but is big size
It is inresting that the Old Mountain , where i colected the stone from peak layered deposits , is a part of a very old mountain chain that begans here in Bulgaria and runs throu EU and is the same mountain chain where the thuryes are mined
Im not sayng that this is thury as they are in Thuringia Im very happy that i found this stone as it is almost the same material and im very proud that , there are reminiscent deposits in our mountains , that are from the same period or maybe the same type of material as the most famous razor hones
Everything hapened 3 years ago when we make a stop to drink a montain water and to see the view from the montain that devide Bulgaria on 2 parts
I saw the hole side of the peak was covered in layered slate piecess and i gust got 1 big and 2 -3 smaller for evaluation
It came hight quality stone and i swea that if i didnt know it is a local stone , ill be shure it is a thury
But it isnt
Here are some pics on this intresting stone It is filled with ultra fine silica particles as some blue thuris have , in them
It have some wellowish layers that are veru fine and they are softer than the blue layers
Stone is ultra smooth and work very fast on slurry
The slurry breaks doun to finer and finer It gave very smoothe , close and comfortable shave , even on some hard steel razors that are hard to hone as russian steels .
The random piece i get gave a gray - pinkish slurry and is very raminisscent of the Swedenstein slurry on the original Swedenstein stones that i have .
The Wellowish side or the material from the wellow spots is a very ultra fine and it is a bit softer than the blue layer The wellowish layer make fantastic job on finishing .
I whanted to share this , as here there arent other razor enthusiasts and people that enjoy very fine razor hones

Stone whet

With slurry

I'd have a little internet search for geological surveys of the area you got the stone from.

I have a sneaking suspicion it's an area with Ordovician silt stone deposits. If you have more rock then I would send a sample to Doorsch (Sebastian). His site razor and stone is pretty good at grading rocks and he loves random rocks!

It looks very similar to the wrong rock I picked up in the Charnley forest area. Sebastian has a sample of this.

Well we were 4 people in the car and it wasnt comfortable to fill the back of the car with slit slabs
Yes the area is from the mountain chain from that time and have Ordovician deposits Bulgaria is very rich on mountains and diferent types of minerals ,diferent rocks from very old times , gold and ect.

Although it would be nice if it were a thuringian, it doesn't really matter what you call it since you found a nice finisher in the wild.

I think that if i get a frend with a car to go there again and colect some more i will find a better and harder slab
This is the first one i get from the ground , no choosing from layers nothing I pick it up
I sell my thuris as they were small stones and practicly this stone gave me the same edge , as them .
I fount the thuringian layers here in my country , now i have to find and the coticule layers alround ha haha h ah a

I like finding and experimenting with found rocks. Looks like you found a good one. Keep up the hunt.