Thread: Twilight hone

Most here think it's a BBW because it looks like a BBW despite it not being the same color as your other BBW and gives purple slurry. BBWs are so common that the chance of a stone like that being something else is very small. If you show us a close-up of the stone without slurry this time I expect to see a BBW pattern.

I think 70 strokes on the stone was just fine for a test, most natural stones are slow on water. Without having any magnification you can also compare how polished/shiny the bevel is before and after honing.

With the stone being most likely coarser than your Guangxi I doubt the stone can be a Fox or a Vosgienne.

Btw what size it?

Piet, it is 2" wide, 1.125" thick, and 8.75" long. Here is as close of a closeup as I could get. You can actually start to see some of whatever is making the stone slurry purple. It doesn't have the wood-pattern that I have seen on various bbw's. If it is a bbw-type stone, I wonder where exactly it could have come from, and what was it sold as? The wood box it came in had "J.H. Day" stamped into the wood. Ring any bells anybody?

You're right, it doesn't have any kind of BBW pattern I've seen. I compared close-ups of a few of my stones with my USB microscope set at 10-20x and I couldn't find a match. It does look somewhat like my DT up close, but not a match.

It doesn't look that fine.

Btw there are sparkly Yellow Lakes.