Thread: I D hone needed

Originally Posted by ruday555

Not this one, it is a light brown slurry.

Post more pics!!

Have you cleaned and lapped the stone? Sometimes old stones a covered with so much mud that it´s impossible to identify them before cleaning.

Are you the owner of the stone? The photograph that you have posted looks remarkably like that of a seller.

If so, post pictures once lapped, with clarity, wet, dry and with slurry. Otherwise its like posting a brown paper bag and asking what kind of liqueur is inside.

for a I.D you'll need to post better pic's

Wrong. I does not produce pink ish slurry. Even if you slurry just red streaks in them it is not pink.

Originally Posted by adrspach

Wrong. I does not produce pink ish slurry. Even if you slurry just red streaks in them it is not pink.

Ok then well talk to Modine cause he clearly stated in a post that it does slurry to a pinkish color!
As far as myself i use oil on oilstone!!!

Adrspach (Stepan) probably has more Charnleys than any other member here. He has even quarried his own, which is quite awesome seeing the quarry has been shut down!

What you might find is that the slurry can look as though it has a pink tint to it where there are red streaks and or blotches in the rock, as the slurry is really a milky white colour and not fully opaque; the red features of the rock exhibiting an illusion that the slurry is pink. This has been my experience with one sample.

Originally Posted by Scipio

Adrspach (Stepan) probably has more Charnleys than any other member here. He has even quarried his own, which is quite awesome seeing the quarry has been shut down!

What you might find is that the slurry can look as though it has a pink tint to it where there are red streaks and or blotches in the rock, as the slurry is really a milky white colour and not fully opaque; the red features of the rock exhibiting an illusion that the slurry is pink. This has been my experience with one sample.

Good information, so its ok to say that the slurry can be pink like Modine said. Nevertheless it is not our quest here on this thread
the goal is to find what the OP stone is.

Unless there is more information it will be quite difficult.

Originally Posted by adrspach

Wrong. I does not produce pink ish slurry. Even if you slurry just red streaks in them it is not pink.

I suspect it rather depends on the actual stone!

Given that the base colour is some sort of drab to mossy green, then the slurry should have a milky look with a hint of the base colour due to the suspended, finely divided particles in it. I have taken numerous examples with just a few streaks of red in them, but these ones don't seem to influence the colour of the slurry at all - which is only sensible, as the red must represent a tiny fraction of 1% of the surface area of the hone. Most of the ones I have tried fall into this area.

However, I have a few with enormous swirls and streaks of red, even large circular areas of red, and these do give a pinkish/brownish tinge to the slurry - which again is only reasonable, as the ones of this type I have used would have around 25% or so of the surface area made up by red patches.

If you abrade a red brick, you get red brick dust, common-sense, no?

One type I used to have was a softer variety and gave a poorer finish than the others. It had speckly bandings of red and some swirls of red. I didn't expect the slurry to be much different than usual, but this was decidely deeply pink/red. Upon further examination the red areas were much softer than the green areas, so I suppose the green particles in the suspension actually abraded the red areas more, bringin more red particles into solution than would otherwise have been the case.

Everyone seems to forget at times what we have all agreed about natural stones - they each vary from other examples of the same hone, making each one somewhat unique, so only very broad outlines can be given: outlines, not rules!

Regards,
Neil