Thread: tiny hone - any ideas?

Hello gentlemen!
Today i recieved my latest steal in the postbox. Its a real tiny hone, supposedly for razors.
It looked real boring and just, you know, grey, when i got it. but after some lapping a really interesting glittery tiger-striping revealed itself.
Its definetly a natural(in my book) and its size would suggest that it is indeed for razor use, or, perhaps scalpels. same ballpark though.
Do any of you more experienced honers know what im dealing with here? and, above all, know where to put it and for how long in the succession?(hopefully not in the bin) I currently run on 1 k shapton, 4/8 norton, 2 different coticules(really nice).
so, pictures in random order, dry, wet, and with slurry.
Thank you for your time and knowledge / Victor

and yes, that is indeed an swedish postal notice that i got a package waiting in the postoffice. could it be another coticule? well, who knows
i do like a nice bragging but it is mainly there for the purpose of white-balancing. just grabbed the closest super-white thing around.

It could be a blue Coti or a German water stone (very common here in Sweden back in the days, more common than Cotis), but it's hard to tell from the pics, even though it looks more like a Thuri. It could be for chisels and/or smaller hand tools, like you suggested, as well

holy crap you lucky dog it looks to be a special stone from france and O yes its a steal
XX disclaimer i got really excited when i saw the stone i could be wrong XX

ok now that i got myself together what's the size of that stone ?

whoo.. HAD-juices flowing like crazy over here!
I'll post this enlargment to get you guys some more meat on the bones so to speak( its a swedish saying actually.. dont know if it works in us)

its definetley not a bbw/coti. theres no purple in it and the glittering is not like garnets at all. maybe that german thing, any more info on that Mikael?

i borrowed the pic's from modine does your stone look close to this one ?

I like yours, eleblu05! What is that thing?

yep, sure does. around 10x3x1,5 centimeters. ( lenghtxwidthxthickness) but the chamfered edge there, mine is a lot smother, no scrath-marks what so ever.(spelling?), probably depends on the lapping though, i took mine from 360 grit(aprox 5 mins) to 600 grit(also aprox 5 mins). the size and cutting-pattern look identical though.