Thread: Help identify stone?

Hello all,

So I did some searching on the site, the stone I have seems to most resemble those that have been identified as Thuringians. Anyone agree?

Color is light green, size is 7" x 1.5" x 0.5", it's a fairly soft stone and it put a whoppin' edge on both a carbon steel Case knife and one of my razors.

The first pictures are of the side I've been flattening (still some to go), dry and then wet, and the third picture is the backside, dirty and beat up.

Thanks all,

n

Its a Thuringian. Some YG Eschers were manufactured in that size but without labels you can only ponder. When you say a 'whoppin' edge,' what is this in comparison to?

Yup, thats a Thuringan. Lap it til its really smooth, then slightly round the edges. It is a great finishing hone.

All the scratches are a dead giveaway. Only a stone that soft looks like that.

Thanks guys, I really appreciate it.

I'm accustomed to harder stones, novaculite and such, and this stone is pleasant to deal with where the Arkansas stones always seem reluctant to cooperate. I feel that the razor I tried after honing with this stone had a more keen edge than it's had since I got it. I understand there's lots of subjectivity there, as there is also a lot of room for improvement of my technique with a razor, but I can sharpen a knife pretty well and I touched up my grafting knife on this stone and was mighty pleased with the result.

I'm not impressed with labels. I had a job years ago, I ran a small print shop for a company, did both direct image and offset printing. When I think of the amount of effort required to spank out a few thousand Escher labels, and when I think of the potential profit in ebaying freshly labeled stones.. I'm sure you see where I'm going with it.

Thanks again,

n