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 .........

Originally Posted by JimmyHAD

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

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 .

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.

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?