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Another couple mystery stones
Attachment 101422Attachment 101424Attachment 101425These stones are 2 x 6 (roughly) and 1 1/4 x 7. The narrower one is a water stone and makes a coffee colored slurry. It is medium / fine and fast. The stone color is a dull brown, and gets darker when wet. Its very porous. It is also painted black on three of its long sides. It's possible the light stripe is the real stone color and the black paint discolored the edges.
The larger stone is an oilstone. It's medium gritted and fast. It is the most colorful stone ive had. The box is very elaborate also. The rust color in the middle could actually be rust, the stone was coated with steel when I bought it, and i scraped big chunks of swarf off of it and the box. I was really just buying it because the box was fancy, i had no idea what the stone looked like. It looked like it had a coat of gray paint on it. Any guesses?