Thread: "Portanigra" What kind of hone is this?

Well, I have been learning and trying, and it seems to be a nice finisher.
I'm using it whitout a slurry becouse I don't have another stone like this, and I don't want to cut a piece of it.
The blade polishes nicely, but it is a very slow cutter I think, I don't have much expierience with natural hones and honing so this could be perfectly normal.

well people, today i have cut a piece of it because it was tooo slow. And it is quite a fast stone with slurry on it!

You didn't have to cut it to make a slurry stone, you could have used anything for a slurry stone. But that's ok that you did because it's a pretty big stone. I've also got a huge stone like yours, bought it as a thuri but wasn't sure. It was slow also, but I put one of my slurry stones across it and it jams now too!

Before cutting it of I tried to make slurry with my coticule slurry stone, but then the razor became more dull then it was before... but it was finaly cutting ! ! (the coticule slurry i guess..) Since I really wanted to know what kind of stone I have cutting a piece of seemed permitted ^^

Also the stone itzelf under dry or wet conditions is MUCH smoother than my coticule, really as smooth as glass.

Is your stone also very sticky? Under running water whitout slurry it was already sticky, but now with the slurry you really have to put force on it pushing it along.