Thread: Any ideas about this Hone or its origins?

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!