Thread: Confirm Hone ID Please

Hey guys I bought this stone last weekend at an antique store for $8 it was originally set in a block of wood. I bough it thinking it was a thuringian but after posting it on multiple forums some people said it looked like a CF in some photos and a thuringian in others. Here's the pics of it after i lapped it, it wasn't real hard so that's why I was steering away from a CF.
Dry

With slurry made from a Cnat slurry stone.

Side view

One of the broken corners

Wow - that's some funky lighting you have got going on there! It looks grey, then purple, then green! What is it's true colour? Does it slurry easily? That dark inclusion - what colour is it - CFs usually have red streaks and dots, some have very dark, blackish dots with a hint of red and usually some scratchy kind of inclusion in the middle of the black area, though not always.

CFs usually take on a glassy character and are very hard and hard to raise a slurry on. It looks very regular for a CF, but I have seen regular CFs - sometimes the bottom is still a bit rough-hewn.

To be frank, the only pic that has hints of a CF in it - for me - is the middle one. I wouldn't put my money on it being a CF to be honest - more like some form of hone-slate.

Regards,
Neil

Regards,
Neil

Yeah I know the pictures are bad. Sorry. The top one was taken outside in the shade. The bottom one was taken in a lightbox. The inclusion is where a gouge was that I didn't feel like lapping out at that particular time. It slurries pretty easily. It's true color is like an army green, this is what my wife told me I am color blind, it is nearly the same color as my small thuringian but jus a bit darker. Thanks for the help though.

Hi Matt,

You are lucky your wife just calls you colour-blind: mine is much more insulting!

I have a small thuringian about the same colour as the bottom pic, it's a very good finisher. A thuringian is a type of slate hone-stone, so maybe that is what it is. You should try finishing a razor on it and see how you like it. Don't bother with the slurry - it should release a very fine 'slime' on its own as you finish the razor on it.

Regards,
Neil

I am almost positive that it is a thuringian and I did finish a razor on it with only water, it left an edge very similar to my small 6" thuringian.

I must agree here, 3 pics all look different, but if its soft, easily raise slurry, and lapped definately not a CF. My thuri is blue grey,
but when i got it the seller had pics that showed the stone in different colors like the ones you posted on here.

I think the true color of it is going to be the one showin the chipped corner.

Originally Posted by matt789

I think the true color of it is going to be the one showin the chipped corner.

Originally Posted by Neil Miller

Hi Matt,

You are lucky your wife just calls you colour-blind: mine is much more insulting!

I have a small thuringian about the same colour as the bottom pic, it's a very good finisher. A thuringian is a type of slate hone-stone, so maybe that is what it is. You should try finishing a razor on it and see how you like it. Don't bother with the slurry - it should release a very fine 'slime' on its own as you finish the razor on it.

Regards,
Neil

Well in between your wife calling you color blind and Neil wife insulting him, i really think you got a wonderful stone there,
vintage thuringian are truly the most consistent stone for razors imo!!

Thank you I had to do a bunch of lapping on it because of that gouge you see the remnants of. I thought about just leaving it as it is because you can't feel it when you are honing, but I think I'll lap it out eventually to make it a nice and uniform surface. Thank for your help guys I will enjoy this stone.

Originally Posted by matt789

Thank you I had to do a bunch of lapping on it because of that gouge you see the remnants of. I thought about just leaving it as it is because you can't feel it when you are honing, but I think I'll lap it out eventually to make it a nice and uniform surface. Thank for your help guys I will enjoy this stone.

Yes that will take a while but better then if it was a CF that would take 6 days to lap that out on a CF!!