Thread: Another new stone, please id

Hello again, RAD and HAD is hitting hard. I bought this stone on Ebay with a lot of razors.The seller claims washis grandfather who was a barber. I have no experience with this kind of stones, I had couple coticule and couple thuringians,but nothing like this. It was hard to lap, not like a CF but harder than coticule,and was to begin with almost flat.it raise slurry, whithe slurry , but you need 45 sec to 1 min with a DMT 320, to raise a normal amount of slurry.I test a razor and the slurry became darker after 10 half strokes,also you can hear the abrasion sound very clearly.I can't say right now if is aa finisher bur the razor I tested was sharp enough to pass HHT.The dimensions are
5 inch long on longest part, and 4 inch long on short part, 3 1/2 wide, and 7/8 thick. The smell is like earth smell.What this can be?

Looks like a big slab of coticule to me. Some of them are harder than others. One of mine smells sweet and the others have no scent at all.

It could also be some sort of Jnat, but I've never handled one. Wait and see what other folks think.

It is likely to be a Coticule despite it being hard.

Thats exactly how my coticule looked when I got it. Pretty sure thats what you've got there.

Thank you gents, so a coticule without BBW and without slate on the back? I did not know they came like this.I will treat her like a coticule to see what happened.

I see signs of layering there. I'm not so sure about it being a coticule of course I've never seen one that was unweathered and in the rough.

I would guess a Les Lat, they are quite fast with slurry and have a distinctive chalky response when honing.
If you have the tools to lap the bottom it might be a "hybrid" layer which is very useful as a finisher.
Don't try using your DMT 325 for lapping the bottom though, it will take forever and your 325 might be an 8k when you are finished...

It looks like a big chunk of Vintage, rustic Coticule. Jarod at the superior shave has one on his site, similar:
Belgian Coticule Hones He has tons of photos, it's at the bottom of the page.
I don't think yours is Les Lat, it doesn't look like any I've ever seen. Drop Jarod an email with some pics, or Maurice at the quarry, they should be able to id it for you....

I did get across cotis which were very hard, not backed with anything. However all of them were more right angled.

In the third picture down is there writing on the lower right of the stone or am I just seeing things? Vo--something?

My vote is for "unknown, not coticule" but I'm interested to see what we find out!