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    Quote Originally Posted by jcsixx View Post
    Does marble work for honing?
    No.......................

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    Quote Originally Posted by Piet View Post
    MadsL, you really shouldn't start a thread and ask question about a stone from a live auction, it's frowned upon. You should either wait until the auction is over or ask someone through pm. It just got sold but there is a bigger one still up.

    It looks like some kind of marble to me. Perhaps someone cut a couple hones out an excess tile from his new marble floor
    Apologies, I wasn't aware of the ettiquette on that. I was curious about this stone as I had never seen the like of it.

    Out of interest why is it frowned upon?

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    Here's a thread about the subject.

    In the case of a normal auction if a stone is mentioned here the price can easily double. In this case someone could have been considering a Best Offer, do a little research and may have gotten it for Ł30-35. Now whoever did buy it had to make a quick decision and pay the full price to not get beat by another SRP member.

    I had both in my watch list and I'm curious too but I was going to wait till they were sold to ask about them.

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    I take your point, (By the way, in my defence this was a Buy it Now and I didn't say it was actively on ebay.. )

    Sincere apologies for any offence caused. Now...what the hell is this thing??

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    Quote Originally Posted by Disburden View Post
    Try using it after an 8K stone and see if the edge gets finer or rougher then work from there to see how it compares to other hones and let us know!

    That is an excellent approach.
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    The box looks like black oak (bog oak) to me.Or maybe its just the photo.
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    Quote Originally Posted by MadsL View Post

    Out of interest why is it frowned upon?
    Res ipsa loquitur.

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    Quote Originally Posted by jcsixx View Post
    Does marble work for honing?
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    No.......................
    How do you know? Have you ever tried?
    Last edited by JeffR; 09-24-2011 at 04:21 PM.
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    Quote Originally Posted by JeffR View Post
    How do you know? Have you ever tried?
    From the opinion of experts of whom I highly regard for their assistance both active and passive with my own learning curve in all things tonsorial, I can echo that it is not suitable for honing razors. Whether it can hone at all is another matter.

    Even without the contributions made by the above, marble has been available for many centuries as a building material to man. If it were a fine enough honing medium at a speed that made it worthwhile to use without pursuing other forms such as coticule and Thuringian, it would be known.

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    If you google "Black marble" you'll find pictures like these, resembling the stone in the OP. Perhaps someone into rocks and minerals can tell whether the stone in the OP is really marble.

    A_S did mention marble one time:
    Quote Originally Posted by A_S
    Also, there is a laminated marble, extracted from the bed of the River Fiddich in Banffshire, which sounds promising.


    The Czech website cestadreva.cz does sell a marble stone as hone called Bílý mramor.

    I don't know if either of these two hones are really marble. Marble is so common that if it was good for honing we would be using it already. I hope whoever bought it will let us know how it performs.
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    Last edited by Piet; 09-24-2011 at 05:19 PM.

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