Thread: Confirm Hone ID Please

Thank ou for the picture. I would tend to go wit LI. Can ou show the side of break? Any chips?

Hi

New Stone.


From UK. Olive colored greenish. Specifik pattern on it , looks like petrified Wood. Its very hard and about 8x2.

What is it?

Close up Picture.

Nice looking stone Frameback! i would say that this is some type of Lynn Idwall, it is really hard?

Thanks Martin.
Well i have bought a few Stones in the past from same seller and he Always laps them before shipping. This is the first time i have heard tim complain about its hardness and time it took to lap.

Adrspach and Neil, what Do you Think?

Thats it? No more qualified guesses?

I have seen alot of stone cann't draw a opnion of what that is.
Sometimes we just have to be happy with knowing it makes a razor shave nice.

I am still clueless!

Here are some brand new pics after cleaning and lapping. Spotty little fellow. Slurry is white/lightgreen. The stone is not very had actually.




upper side, dry


upper side wet

other side, wet

IN your post (#83) the close-up looks like an LI to me. I have seen similar patterns before on hones - I'm sure there was one posted on Olivia's forum (perhaps Piet will remember) - I think tat2ralfy got it at a bootsale?

Anyhow, that mark looks very light - any chance that you have the lid of the box? Maybe it once lived in another box, though. It looks almost as if it has laid on some worn wooden object (or box lid, or box bottom) made from softwood, so that the hard wood pattern was exposed by the softer wood shrinking back. Perhaps it is some sort of contact transference like that? In the lower left part of the pic is a darker line that looks like it is scored into the hone - where it passes through some of the light-coloured patterning, the pattern fades or is lost altogether.

Regards,
Neil

Very interesting theory ,:that could definately be.correct