Thread: Dalmore blue? please help ID this stone.

Are you getting fixed on one name of the hone?
I have to say thank to seller you have mentioned and simmilar to him around the world for messing up the knowledge about the hones in order to boost their profits. Sells decent hones (mostly freshly made/cut) just like to "borrow" names of more known and dearer hones.
As with your hone tight banding is on the side or top of the hone. How porous is the hone? Have you lapped it? How hard is it? What is the slurry like? How does it smell?

Thank you for the links Piet,
Sorry if I have seemed fixated, but most of my new findings are pointing that way. No final conclusion, just happy to getting new leads.
Some people say yes others say no. People that say no because it's missing the wavy banding,I was pointing out some labled stones out there that Piet and Niel Miller have posted pics of in other threads that show different versions.
As to Aj, I never met, talk, or buy anything from him. Just googled dalmore blue and he came up as having one. In his dicription he said that not all DB had the wavy banding. I was just refering to his statement on that matter. Sorry for any confusion.
This is why i believe so far:
-size is common on that stone(202mmX50mmX17mm)
-grey when dry and green/grey when wet
-around 5k level
-sparkles evenly on whole stone
-very hard like a arkansas
-hard to make slurry (I have a thuri to contrast) but comes out greyish/white
-has very thin banding on the front of the stone(not the top or bottom honing surfaces) going horizontal with the honing surface.(like Niel Miller's top picture) and the back has them to at a slight angle.
-It's about as porous as a #1 washita maybe a little more.
It still smells faintly of old oil so can't really smell it, thanks adrspach as i could not think of anyhing to add.
One more thing to add is when I run my nail on surface. It feels more course than my #1washita but give a better edge.
Pics on the way, thanks for the help everyone. Don't care where it leads, just want to get to the bottom of this.
Israel

Reason why I have asked that often people fix themselves on one desirable hone for them and even when shown other options and sometimes they are even more valuable/rare options they do not listen.
There supposed to be simmilar hone to DB from near by area. If I remember right the name was something like Douglas hone. Sorry do not have one to show but believe thare were 2 people who had example Neil Miller and another member here whose nick I can't remember.
Reason why I have aske dabout the banding is because from what was shown and described it looks to me like Canadian oilstone. Somewhere here on the forum are pictures of it.
The porosity of the hone would also indicate for it.
As with that smell try to rub wet finger wigorously on it and then smell it if you try on different hones they do smell differently depending on what origin they are e.g. sedimentary smells of mud and so on. This often works even when a hone is not completely degreased.

New pics, all dry

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And some wet pics too. That is a y/g thuri for color comparerison.

Thanks adrspach,
never even heard of douglas hone,but wii definately look into it. Canadian stone i have seen, but will look for more examples. You are first to suggest an alternative, thank you.
I never heard about dalmer blue before this either. First heard of it in a Henk Bos article. Thank you again for the help.
Israel

Originally Posted by JimmyHAD

I've had a couple of Dalmore Blues (long since gone) and they have variegated color in them.

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Wow Jimmy that one is a stunner, lovely swirls.

I have a Dalmore and love mine, perfect for using just after the Chosera 1k for me as Jimmy said 4-5K ish, mine has swirls and was eay to enough to lap.

I will upload pics of mine later, as its early morning here and not a great deal of day light (Not so sunny UK)

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

No need for me to upload now I have found my thread above, typical patterns still reminants of oils but hey its old and been used, not as pretty as the one Jimmy had, but I always use mine on every razor.

For me its nice to know what type of hone I have have but its not a big deal if I dont know, more important that I know where and if it fits in my rotation.

i dont mind to offend you , but looks like pierre de Levant to me - a coarser stone .

Originally Posted by RusenBG

i dont mind to offend you , but looks like pierre de Levant to me - a coarser stone .

Well it fights very tight to a Pierre Aiguiser Naturelle de Saurat, or a today also called or sold stone as Pierre a Menuiser (Genre Levant)....

Its real difficult because we have different stones with equal names:

Turkey Oilstone (Pierre Du Levant)
Pierre a Menuiser (Genre Levant) which equals a Pierre Naturelle de Saurat
Belgian Levant Stone (Our Levant)

I can add some pics later for clarification.

I mean the Opinel natural stone - Pierre de levant It is grey and grainy . Hybrid between a sandstone and a quartzite
It is mined in france and it is glued to a BBW for knifes Pierre de pyrinees -Pierre à aiguiser spéciale menuisier