Thread: Stone id

I guess my next question regarding the mystery rock is...you say it's a hard stone yes? What grade DMT did you use to build up the slurry? If it's the usual 325 the stone's surface might be left a bit roughed up.

Have you tried prepping the surface like some of us do Arkies and PHIGs to see if that makes a positive impact? I couldn't get an edge on my PHIGS to save my life until I polished the honing surface as fine as I could, then ran a steel blade over it a few hundred laps to complete the burnish. Now it cuts smooth enough to improve a Norton 8k edge, originally I couldn't get anything good from the rock.

I didn't raise a slurry. That's a pic from the bay.
The surface is quite smooth but not burnished for sure. I could give it a go for sure.
What's a PHIG?
I'll have to read up on stone polishing/prep. Hmmm, I'm wondering if I checked flatness on this one.

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People's Hone of Indeterminate Grit, AKA C12k, Guangxi hone, etc. Some of them are like Arkies, very hard and benefit from being polished (up to 2k at least) then burnished with a knife blade or something similar. Same for Arkies, most of us find the Black/Translucent ones work better with a burnish.

I can't help ID it but I will say that it looks pretty cool and would be fun to hone on. It has 'personality'

Honed a Boker on it. It was crazy sharp. I'd say is in the 3k to 4k range and pretty fast. I finished it with my coticule bout and test drove that today. Nice shave. Not cold steel and whiskers fall off like my shave ready W&B 6/8 gold standard but a nice close shave. I did compare it with a 4/8 Ontario that was my first sucess with a coti hone and it was compareable. Nice shave, a bit more burn with aftershave than I'd like. It might be the razor, not sure.


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