Thread: Curious About This Stone

I went to my great aunt 85th birthday this weekend and this was her husbands dad's sharpening stone. I would like to know anything about it. There was a little "whetrock" that I assume was a slurry stone?

looks like a coticule to me but we'll wait for someone with more knowledge.

Looks grimey, are those pics after lapping? This will also clue in on the hardness and what color the slurry will be.

My guess is a coticule that has been used with oil

I agree that it's probably an oiled two-sided coticule, with the two sides glued together. If you produce a slurry on the lighter side, and it is a coticule, then the slurry will be milky white. If the back side is a bbw, then the slurry will be purple. If it is slate, which given its apparent age is unlikely, then the slurry would be white and more difficult to produce.

Lap it and it will be good to go!

I'll agree with everyone so far, a very dirty Coticule.

Yup, greasy newer glued, Coticule. Don’t think the small stone is a slurry stone.

A soak in Simple Green or 99 cent store “Awsome” and water, scrub with a Scotch Brite sponge. I have been using the 99cent store Awsome and find it works better than Simple Green, for degreasing stones, and it’s a bit cheaper.

You may have to soak it for a few days or week, to get all the oil and rancid smell, out of it.

Thanks for the feedback. His grandson has it and two razors and has no plans to do anything with them. I was just trying to find out some info/history to relate to him. The one razor has EXtreme hone wear and the other was in good shape except both scales had cracks....

The small stone looks as much like a coticule as the large one does.

I would try lapping it before bothering trying to de-grease it. Coticules don't seem to soak oil very far in anyway, so you might as well go ahead and lap it first. By the time you have that done, you may find that the oil will be almost, if not completely, gone.