Thread: Green Stone ID...

After searching previous threads can this small stone be identified?

• Stone lapped and chamfered. This is Hard stone.
• Slurry raised w/ DMT1200 Greenish white tint
• Test razor shows darkening of slurry after 15 to 20 passes. Cuts fast.

Very nice feed back. Surface of stone has smooth glass like transition
Test pending to see if this stone it will improve edge after 8000 grit stone with water and or oil. thank you
Mike

I don't know, but it is a beautiful looking stone.
Could it be slate, even though it is so smoothly cut?
I have a greenish piece of slate from the British Isles, that produces slurry that exact color.

Jade perhaps?

well its not jade. modine you say its hard, hard like a cf ? the texture i'm picking up from the pic it looks to be some kind of slate does the stone fall some where around the 10k mark ?

Some think it's a Cutler's Green:


Others call it a CF.
Yet others think it's Llyn Idwal.
The type has even been called Tam O'Shanter.

For these jade coloured, speckled, glassy hones with a slight translucency, as seen especially well in flakey cracks which run at small angles to the surface, I keep it at Llynn Idwal.

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Looks a little like this one though too doesn't it?

Originally Posted by Oldengaerde

Some think it's a Cutler's Green:
Others call it a CF.

Olivia initially thought it was a CF and added it to the SRP wiki as such. Later she realized it couldn't be a CF and decided on calling it a Cutler's Green. There wasn't much or any talk about Llyn Idwals back then otherwise she might have chosen another name for it.

I also think Modine's stone could be a Llyn Idwal.

Modine, this thread http://straightrazorpalace.com/hones...een-stone.html which you have read before may help. The first set of photo's are not bad, yours are much clearer though. The second set of photos on the link, have too much flash. The width of the hone in the link gets wider at one end as does my hone.
How have you found the shave from the hone, as I haven't done a full shave test as of yet?

Modine, I have exactly the same hone of yours, mine seems to have been at least 6" inches in length and 2" inches wide, with a thickness 3/4" inches.
Mottled green surface with black speckles, harder to lap than a coticule, with a cream/light-mint green slurry. One end was broken, so I could see the layers of slate, thus made a 5" inch hone with a slurry stone. If you look all over your hone with magnification, have you seen any "gold" deposits/inclusions?
Furthermore, I was told the original owner of my stone was a 90yr old machinist in the U.S, and his machinery was from the 50's..so stone could have been much older and passed on.

I have found it left a hazy/matt finish that was also shallow/burnished/matt-polished in depth of finish and increased keenness from finishing on water with a coticule.

It reminds me very much at this stone of mine which, after some research, I believe is most likely a Llyn Idwal.