Thread: Hone id please.

I picked this up at the flea market today for 2$

It was pretty ruff shape so I lapped it on a disc sander, I will say one thing it "smoked" up my entire garage with dust. Which is not usual all my other Fleamarket hones have i lapped the same way and the others never produced ANY dust. It is Very very smooth and laps very easy, a diamond lapping stone cuts through it like butter.

Size = 1 1/8 wide X 5.5 long and it was about 3/4 inch thick.


Any help with an ID would be helpfully.

It looks a lot like my unlabeled blue Thurungian, they are very soft and can be lapped very easily

I started googling blue Thurungian and I think I might agree. Now to figure out if I should add it to my hones I use?

I have a norton 4k/8k and a chinese 12k.

How would I add it to my hone cycle?
After bevel setting I usually follow gssixgun YouTube video on the norton 4/8 then I have been hitting the cnat until the noise dies down.

Would I just use this instead of the cnat? Or add it after?

If it is a Thurungian it would be a finisher, similar and possibly better than the C12K (8k-12k roughly), definitely faster than a C12K

Originally Posted by rodb

If it is a Thurungian it would be a finisher, similar and possibly better than the C12K (8k-12k roughly), definitely faster than a C12K

Your description was spot on, I really love the feedback compared to my C12 I have been touching up most of y restored blades and shaved with one this morning. I am thinking I like it.