Thread: Dalmore blue? please help ID this stone.

Hello everybody,
I picked this up a couple months ago on the bay. It was all black and dirty, but after cleaning it. It turns greyish green,then after it dries it's grey. Never seen that before, so researched on the net closest thing I could find was dalmore blue. Not ever hearing about one I have no clue if it's correct. All I can say is it is finner than a lilly white but not as fine as a vintage black ark. Here are the pics, it's the bigger one.Dry I like this stone for SR way bettter than knives. Thanks for the help.

I don't see any clearly identifiable features that would help ID that stone, but it's safe to say it's probably not a Dalmore Blue. Those always have at least some amount of swirled pattern, and most have quite a lot. Take and post some photos of the sides and well lit closer up photos of anything that might be a distinguishable feature.

It could be a Dalmore Blue but I can't tell with certainty from your pics. The shape is similar to mine and not all DBs have the swirls. The one DB of mine that came with it's original cardboard box has no swirls whatsoever.

You can see a bunch lined up in this old post of mine. The stones are porous, so you could pour a bit of water on the middle and check what happens.

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

i have no idea what your stone is. however, for comparison: i have a nice chunk of DB, 6" x 2" x 1.5". i bought it new old stock, labelled "for carpenters and joiners". it was dark grey, but became much lighter after lapping and cleaning. i removed the label before lapping, but you can still see where it was attached on the underside. this stone is almost plain grey, no swirls at all, just a faint "cloudy" pattern. picture shows stone dry. not much different when wet, just darker.

regards,
hans

I just googled 'scotch dalmore blue hone', and clicked on images. There is a slue of 'em. Many are like mine, with the swirls, but not all. Some seem to be more uniformly grey. Take a gander at them here .........

Thank you very much for the help,
Sorrry i forgot the dims 202mmX50mmX17mm and it has the sparkles evenly thruoughout.
Thank's for the links Jimmmyhad, on page two in Neil Miller's pics my stone has the same tight banding on the front and back of my stone.I thought it was fine saw marks but on closer inspection not all the lines are even like saw marks. Some are slightly wavy and one side is perpendicular and on other side has a slight angle. The sides were used by the owner before I got it and can't see any visual indications to give a better idea of what it is. I feel like laping the sides now.
I just got a 14mp Sony camera today and will post better daylight pictures . Again, thank you very much for the help Everybody! I've been stumped for a while on this one.
Israel

IME the 2 dalmore blues I had were intermediate stones. Not finishers, maybe coarse sharpeners. Not coarse enough for bevel setting, nor fine enough for finishing. Obviously they are not all the same so YMMV.

I do not think is DB. Any moreinfo about your hone/

A little more info,
I would put this stone at 4-6k. Henk Bos says 4 or 5k, so I would pick 5k. It was caked in black stinky oil, that took aout a week to get it out. Grey when dry, green/grey when wet.
It has the sparkles all evenly dispersed and has very tight banding I can see in the front and back.
Aj has one on the bay now,and in his discription he say not all have the wavy banding,some are more plain stone, new pics show a little better the light streaking on one of the surfaces.
I took some nice pics earlier today and was going to tranfer from my camera to my tablet.
I found out i was using a dedicated SDHC and my tablet is micro SD. Have to go buy a adapter for the Micro SD to SDHC so the pics will come tommorow.