Thread: Please help me identify these hones!!! :D

Thanks guys!

I went back again today and got a very small combo couticle for $3! lol Its probably too small to use but still i had to get it! measures 40mm x 105mm x 25mm





And here is a close up of the Tam

Send it to me if you have trouble with such a small stone

Originally Posted by onimaru55

Send it to me if you have trouble with such a small stone

I will find a way to use it LOL!

So i have a...
Llyn Idwal hone
Jnat
Thuringian
tam o'Shanter
unkown but not important
norton - not imortant
cuticle

Also i picked up a new C12k and its huge! Cheaper then my last one and double the thickness!
200mm x 75mm x 30mm my current C12k is only 14mm thick!



Thanks guys for helping!

Dose anyone have any photos of a Llyn Idwal hone??? so i can compere it?

Ah well if you get bored with the coticule send it my way.
As far as you're cuticle goes , you can keep your hang nails

I just realised the first stone comes out of its container, Here are a few more photos..




@ eleblu05 - You have a post of your Charnley Forest here http://straightrazorpalace.com/hones...tml#post830172 and my stone looks almost exactly like that one in sections and other sections not so.

Is it likely to be the Charnley Forest or the Llyn Idwal? If you have photos of both it would be awesome!

Also, what ever one it is finally decided on, how do they hone (finisher of pre finisher etc) and is it a whetstone or oil stone?

Here are some of my stones which have a speckle pattern for comparison, none of them are CFs.

I'm sure yours can be used with water or oil.

@ Piet - Do you know what that first stone is in your photo?

I wasnt going to ask what this stone was but now that i have lapped it, and it was one hell of a hard stone to lapp and i spent ages degreasing it i though i would ask anyway. I'm fairly sure is synthetic but it looks like it has saw lines though one side of it so i will double check. (i wasn't planning on using this stone on my razors, it was only worth a $1 so i picked it up)





Its on the courser side, i'm guessing 600 gritt maybe higher, im not sure.

Originally Posted by Brighty83

Member Scipio said his is an Ark?

Actually that was over a year ago and since further testing, I am not certain. It is not a particularly slow hone, and Arks are meant to be quite slow. I have only seen pictures of Arks, some which it resembles, some which it does not. The same is true for some Tams. Some it looks like, some it does not. I think it could be a Tam but I'm not 100%.

I'm 99% sure the Tam looking on is a Tam, as it is stamped on the box.

I'm also fairly sure about the Jnat and the Thuringian. The only one im still not 100% sure about is the Llyn Idwal \ Charnley Forest looking one, the same one that you have Scipio.

How dose that hone?

100% undoubtedly that labelled Tam is a Tam. I was referring to the one in the link you mentioned.

That to me doesn't look like a Charnley.

Edit: That coticule is not too small to use. I would keep it a travel hone.