Thread: Vintage Ayreshire Pocket hone?

You should add a backing before you break it by accident.

Piet, you are too right about that! I have the original box but the stone has come unglued - you can see it used to be like a mini paddle that one can open up. What do you recommend to re bond the stone to the wood?

I have no experience glueing backings yet. I prefer honing with the hone in my hand so I would use a stone backing. I'm planning to buy some black or colored slate tiles to support all my coticules.

Another Black hone to ID:
Black Hone stone: 30mmx150mmx15mm; 1 5/32 x 5 7/8ths x 5/8ths. Old, I had to lap off about a half mm to flatten it. The back had some signs of having been glued at one time. It appears to be a slate type and is not a Thuringer...as near as I can tell. Too hard. It is similar to another black/green hone I have from the British isles, but finer and the slurry is not greenish nor gray. It has a barely perceptible light smoky streaking of white and red. It feels so good to the touch that I don't want to set it down once it is warm.Very nice to hone upon! sticky when at the final polishing strokes.

Water on the stone

sort of reminds me of a hone i received years ago, glued to a thin block of wood. 150x30x3 would be my estimate. black, slight reddish streak. hard stone. ive always wondered what it was.