Any ideas about this Hone or its origins?

[Wolfpack34]

The pictures are pretty clear as to what this stone looks like. It is a 9.25 x 2.24 x .75 heavy dense and fine grit stone. It was easy to lap, and raises a slurry easily so it is also soft. I would say 4-6K with slurry and you can set a bevel with it but it is slow. With just water it seems to be somewhere in the 8-10K as a finisher...feels like glass. I put a very passable 'shave ready edge' on a razor from start to finish with this stone, but the edge was definitely improved the second go around with my Barbers Gem Escher.

It is Greenish-Grey ( more Green than Grey) with really nice slanted horizontal stripes running the length of the stone. The striping becomes more pronounced when wet. When I first got this stone I thought it might be a Dalmore blue but it is green rather than Blue, and it seems to be much finer than what I have read about the Dalmore stones.

Anyway...check out the pics and I will defer to the many experts here a bouts as to what they think it may or may not be...Thanks!

[Piet]

DBs are sandstones and their wavepatterns, if they have one, are more erratic. Especially since you describe it as glassy I would think it's a LI. Here's mine, you can have a look and see if it matches.

[Wolfpack34]

Thanks Piet... I have a Lynn Idwall and it is 'much much harder' than this stone, and almost impossible to slurry. This stone is much softer than any LI I have seen...although the color is more like the 'Green' of a LI. The two 'Black Colored Spots' on one side of the stone seem to be harder than the rest of the stone if that means anything?

[Piet]

Hmm this one and 2 others I had were all just as hard as the other darkgreen LIs. So perhaps it is something else or a LI that just happens to be softer.

[Scipio]

I does resemble some Tams and LIs that both myself and Piet have debated over in the past, however if soft as you confirm, seemingly it is neither. It may be a softer exception, but considering the latter are hard stones in comparison to some mainland European stones, it is unlikely even if soft it would be this much softer as I am inferring it is.

There are coticules this colour, but the 'snaked' pattern I have only seen on UK hones so I think this can be ruled out.

Anyone know what a Dalmore Yellow looks like, and its relative hardness?

Edit - if you can indeed set a bevel with slurry, again, not a LI. My guess would be some sort of Tam. Both Tams and LIs are hard hones, but my experience is that Tams are a fair bit softer than LIs.

[Martin103]

Here a TOS with similiar patern but i dont think the color is the same but the OP pics are with water i believed.

[Wolfpack34]

Here a TOS with similiar patern but i dont think the color is the same but the OP pics are with water i believed.

Martin...what is the color of that Tam...Grey? I have a Tam and it is definitely grey with a speckled pattern. This stone is Green...here is a pic of it with no water:

[Wolfpack34]

......if you can indeed set a bevel with slurry, again, not a LI. My guess would be some sort of Tam. Both Tams and LIs are hard hones, but my experience is that Tams are a fair bit softer than LIs.

Thanks for the input Scipio...I have a very nice Tam and I can tell you that it is much harder than this stone...I don't think it's a Tam. At least not like any I've seen????

[Martin103]

Yes definately grey for sure, i was thinking the patern was somewhat similar and not common for a TOS.Perhaps
its the famous cutlers green!

[Scipio]

The consensus is that the Cutler's Green was a fine finishing hone. I doubt this is it. I'm beaten as to what it may be given that it is a soft hone.