Must have missed this thread the other day, so I started an ID help thread over in advanced honing. Someone suggested I move it over here.

I don't want to clutter up the place with duplicate pics, so they can be found in my thread here: http://straightrazorpalace.com/advan...lp-please.html

This stone feels very smooth to the touch and produced a cream/gray slurry when I tried to lap it with sandpaper. This stone is HARD. It ate up about 6 sheets of 220 grit wet/dry and I believe another 3 of 400 before I quit and ordered a DMT coarse.

The DMT should be here tomorrow, so I will post more pics once it's thoroughly lapped. It was a dark blueish-gray color but turned a light grayish-white on the parts that I did get lapped.

I would like to know what stone it is obviously, but barring that I'm also wondering if someone would be able to suggest where in the honing process it should be used. I ordered a Norton 4k/8k with the DMT and was planning on using this mystery hone after the 8k. I'm going to feel them both and see if this hone is really as smooth as it seems to be.