Thread: Can you help my identify my stone?

yes looks like a thuri , these are mine for comparison (dark blue and brown)...If you want to know for sure , ask Peter (Hatzicho) , he's a member and an authority what thuris is concerned

Few Thuri are black in color. My opinion would be a nice slate. is it finished smooth on both sides?

Originally Posted by Magpie

Few Thuri are black in color. My opinion would be a nice slate. is it finished smooth on both sides?

It has only one working face, on which the color is not really true black but it leans towards a grayish black+blue+green tint. The rest of the faces are pure black.
I also have three slates (advertised as 8k, 12k and 15k ) and the texture, feeling, color, gravity and abrasion properties are nothing like the black one. It is much smoother, almost oily.

Originally Posted by bartds

yes looks like a thuri , these are mine for comparison (dark blue and brown)...If you want to know for sure , ask Peter (Hatzicho) , he's a member and an authority what thuris is concerned

Well, this is it. Not a slate, definitely, not a cnat (those are closer to a slate), I'll take the thuri :
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I missed the picture:

Well in each case it is a black slate. Since most of the slates in the world are black, it could have a lot of origins. May also be a thuri. But no one can say for sure.
Important is that it is a good razor finisher.

Regards Peter

Agree, slate