Thread: Mystery hone ID help pls :)

I got this hone from a friend, but I don't really know what it could be. It is a fairly soft hone, gave a really yellow slurry, has a very fine glassy surface, and looks green/yellow when wet. The picture isn't the best to show its real color, but it is has a green yellowish hue when dry too. I didn't try it yet, but I will when I can. The original size seems to be around 160x35mm. Any ideas what this could be? Thanks for your opinions

More pics, wet and dry.

Originally Posted by Scipio

More pics, wet and dry.

I will try to make some more in daylight tomorrow.

Better pictures could help. My guess at present could be TOS.

It looks 'kind of' like a TOS to me too, but you say its softish and gives a yellow slurry? I have never seen a soft TOS or one that gave a yellow slurry. The hue and the glassy surface match, though. A good close-up photo of the surface and some of the sides and underneath may help.

Regards,
Neil

I made a lot of pics, I hope some of them will be of help. Some are wet, some with slurry, some dry. The slurry watched under daylight isn't yellow anymore, so it can be that the indoors lighting decieved me at first.

I would still say TOS. But I am not completely 100%.

If it is soft as you say, it is unlikely a TOS. Another feature of TOSs is that (often) they are chunky in cross section. This appears to be quite a slim hone, although the surface is reminiscent of a TOS I have seen.

I have got a comfortable shave off a white Tam I used to own. Actually, there's not a natural I have used which gave me a bad shave. What sort of edge does this hone impart?

Originally Posted by Scipio

If it is soft as you say, it is unlikely a TOS. Another feature of TOSs is that (often) they are chunky in cross section. This appears to be quite a slim hone, although the surface is reminiscent of a TOS I have seen.

I have got a comfortable shave off a white Tam I used to own. Actually, there's not a natural I have used which gave me a bad shave. What sort of edge does this hone impart?

Lapping it was not a fast task, but it gave slurry fairly easily. I don't know the egde it gives, I am playing with it right now. Seems like a nice finisher, but I will have to test it some more.