Help with hone identity.

Hello resident experts & disciples alike!
I've just won the hone below. No measurements on the hone itself, but the box measures 9 1/8" x 3".
First thoughts are Charnley, due to the reddish streaks. They may well be rust though.
Any ideas anyone?

Certainly looks like a Charnley to me.

Sorry to say doesn't look like charnley to me. cut on the edge and size 3inch wide?
i hope i am wrong.
Let us know when you got it. thank you for pic

All of the charnleys I have seen are a pale olive(greenish) color, that looks more like an escher(maybe) with rust or some other stain. Clean it up and lets have another look!

Thanks for the replies!
I'll get some more up when i have it & it's lapped. I'm guessing the stone itself is around 8" x 2".
It wasn't a big gamble & should be interesting to see what it is. I've started to get a touch of HAD recently!

Hey Ben. Congrats on the HAD and the stone. He, he..
I noticed that hone, when it was up and photoshopped it, etc...i'm fairly certain it is not a Charnley, but i have been wrong before...once. lol

Thanks,

Mac

It does lok a bit wide for a charnely, but they aren't all olive green - the greyish ones are said to be superior...

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...87/lidoff2.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...s/087/top1.jpg

Fingers crossed that it is!

Hello Neil,
I was viewing that hone, on your site a bit earlier today...does it have dark blue speckles throughout the stone...with the darker/grayish substrate? Ive a couple that look like that as well.

Thanks,

Mac

Ben, when I saw that stone at Ebay I got excited as well thinking it was a cheap Charnley Forest. Unfortunately it resembles those used orange india oilstones almost perfectly. Hopefully it's a natural but I don't think it is.

Hi Mac,

It did have darker speckles - not sure if you would call them blue, though, as well as an underlying kind of three-dimensional effect, only properly seen when it was wet - a kind of 3D effect below the surface.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...lus/087/c1.jpg

The picture doesn't do it justice - makes it look grainy whereas it was quite smooth and glassy when wet.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...lus/087/c2.jpg

There was also a hair-thin red vein at one end, again only visible when wet.

Regards,
Neil

Thanks for all the opinions! I was hoping the clipped corner was a bit of an indication of it being a natural of some sort. I know it's only there to indicate orientation, but i've not seen it done to a synthetic (Probably till now!). I'll know soon enough, I guess.

Hello Ben. Congratulation you were quicker than. I was waiting for more pics but seller was somehow reluctant to send them. Do you have it already home? I was under impression that the measurements were of the box rather than stone and my guess was that it was slate. As about the size of CF my biggest is 2"2/8 in width and I have yet to see any bigger.
Still for that kind of money even that box is worth more.
Once more congrats and keep us posted.

I bought one that looked almost exactly like it, unfortunately after lapping it turned out as an india oilstone , I thought it was rust also but turned out to be all orange.

Hope this helps...good luck Ben. I hope ya let us know the results.

Mac