Thread: Brazilian Green Hone

Anyone have any experience with these? I'm not positive that is what it is because it was sold as new. He had a couple smaller ones for sale on e bay and then sold 2 larger ones after my auction ended. One looked exactly like mine only larger and the other one was darker in color, blackish as he put it and he said it was even finer than the green one. It comes with a slurry stone but I was unable to get any at all so I use any of my other slurry/nagura's that will leave something behind. The feedback on this is very rough I guess you would call it and responds very well to a couple drops of glycerin or a couple swipes from an Arko stick. You definitely feel the stone under the blade.The shaving edge I'm getting of this stone is second to none, it's just incredible. The communication is superb also as it begins to stick the edge to the stone when it is done. I've been using x stokes with remarkable results. I wanted to buy one of the other larger ones he put up for sale after mine but lost track of the auction and he does not have any more. Did anyone here buy one of them? HERE is the one I bought.

Wow a expensive price for a tile of brazillian slate.....i tested some of those but was not satisfied enough

If you got a good hone, you were most fortunate. I looked at the bid description and about the only information given is the dimensions of the stone and that it was a green sharpening stone. There was no information about the source of the stone, nor the quality of the stone (density, hardness, fineness, etc.). Perhaps there was additional information included in the original posting that is no longer on the site.

How do you know this is a Brazilian Green stone? Does the stone come from Brazil, or is it a Russian stone sold as "Brazilian Green"?

Before I bid on it I asked him what it was and he said that it was some kind of Brazilian slate, that is all the information he had. I wish I would have bought the bigger one and would buy another one instantly if it came up for sale. I guess the poster above feels it was cheap floor tile that I over paid for, I hope it is, I'm going to home depot next week to see if they have any in stock. This stuff is incredible, barely responds to lapping on my worn coarse dmt. Hard, very very fine grain structure! I looked at it at 200x on my 5mp usb microscope and found it to be similar to thuri's and jnats.

Too many folks are concerned about the location of the hole from which the stones were mined. All that is really important is whether the stone does the job you expect it to do. If you got a good finishing stone for $42, it was a real bargain. That is about the price of a Chinese 12K. Some, but not all, of them make good finishers as well.

Originally Posted by Aerdvaark

Before I bid on it I asked him what it was and he said that it was some kind of Brazilian slate, that is all the information he had. I wish I would have bought the bigger one and would buy another one instantly if it came up for sale. I guess the poster above feels it was cheap floor tile that I over paid for, I hope it is, I'm going to home depot next week to see if they have any in stock. This stuff is incredible, barely responds to lapping on my worn coarse dmt. Hard, very very fine grain structure! I looked at it at 200x on my 5mp usb microscope and found it to be similar to thuri's and jnats.

Well yeah thats exactly what i recall it for, not offending anybody here....

Its a slate, a lot if slates which work for hones were quarried in locations which were also used to get roofing slate from.

This is valid for some german Thuringian Hones, the french La Lune Stones and for example Vermont Slate.

So again, feel lucky if you got a good stone. But also have in mind that you can get some of those types of slates for a very cheap price (< 10usd) or as free samples.

Check some details here:

http://www.stonecontact.com/products...te-slabs-tiles