Thread: What is it?

The color is off in the photo's, it's a dark green.

As found....


Lapping...




Thin striations across the stone, dark freckles, what look like hard water spots and some small inclusions.



The inclusions are more prominent on the sides of the stone. Remind me of tiny seeds, rust colored to light brown.




The stone is kind of flinty, hard and dense. Much faster than a fine Charnley or hard ark, but not near as fast as a coticule. It produces fine edges, keen like a good finisher should but I have not shaved with it yet.

Hard to believe nobody knows anything about this stone.

It's fairly aggressive with a slurry and picks up lots of speed, almost a gritty feel with a noticeable drag, the feedback on slurry reminds of a hindostan only on a much harder stone.

A couple of shaves have been pretty good but I have other finishers I find smoother. It's very comparable to the edges I get off a hard Escher I have but a little keener.

Yeah, it looks a lot like my Thurningian, but you know so much more about stones than I do, I'm not exactly qualified to help.

https://sharprazorpalace.com/hones/1...ml#post1921172

llyn idwal
https://www.flickr.com/photos/153093...7696387540181/
https://sharprazorpalace.com/hones/1...lyn-idwal.html

I thought so to, but the inclusions on the side of the hone threw me. It is so similar besides that though.

After some searching I have found some similar stones with those inclusions on a Russian website. Apparently a type of Llyn Idwall called "Cambrian Green' or Cutlers Green" (if that website is correct?).

My example is much harder than what he describes but if my stone self slurred the results would be very similar. The inclusions are unmistakable.


From the website (with some clickable pictures too).....

"So I got around to photographing them in detail, and at the same time I would like to draw your attention to one more characteristic feature of these stones, in addition to the seemingly "bursting bubbles" on the surface of the stone - there are some oblong inclusions in the structure, which, when I first paid attention to them, seemed just like spills of wet cardboard or sawdust adhered to the stone. However, these are inclusions, and are present in all Cambrians that I have now so carefully examined."

Google translate worked for me.

Cambrian Green | Заточи Клинок

The website is ok.
The original source about that stone - myabrasive.ru: Cambrian Green
I have not met any stone with label "Cambrian green". So "cambrian green" is just ..popularisation like "guanxi" (aka c12k, phig, etc)
The stone from the post above (zatochiklinok.ru: Cambrian Green)
May be it would be more correct name it "Grecian"
https://razorlovestones.wordpress.co...0-x-32-x-29mm/
but also have met a typical li with label "Grecian Hone" https://www.myabrasive.ru/forum/view...p?p=2637#p2637

So i use the "Cambrian Green" for LI stones that look like (zatochiklinok.ru: Cambrian Green)


rough cambrian green (aj_1001 was selling them some time ago)
It is rough (about ~1200 - ... JIS grit), softer than typical LI

https://www.myabrasive.ru/forum/view...p?p=4658#p4658

LI (typical LI)



atypical LI for any other green slate oil stone

https://yadi.sk/a/kmc820xF3VrDop



https://fotki.yandex.ru/users/beavers-net/album/465748

https://fotki.yandex.ru/users/beaver...um/465901/?p=0


Your stone more looks like that one: https://forum.guns.ru/forummessage/2...html#m37284088 (post 37)
It was harder than typical Llyn Idwal, more dense, with a tiny bit transperancy of the surface and a bit finer.

Thank you Botanic. A wealth of information in those links.