Thread: Is this a Thuringian stone or not?

Hello all good people,

i found this one. looks old to me. Very smooth and dark color. Any idea if this Thuringian stone?

Looks kind of like a black Arkie to me. Could be wrong though.

Looks more like a Welsh slate to me.

It is creating kind of gray slurry, maybe light gray when drying off on the stone.

Probably not an Arkie if you got it to slurry well.

What are you raising the slurry with, and how difficult is it to do so?

I use DMT 325, so it is pretty easy. Stone however feel like a hard stone. I think it is between 6k to 9k.

looks like slate to me. closer pictures of the sides/ends might show more details?

Looks like it could be anything to me. It appears as if it's a lighter colored stone that is covered in oil. But if not, then I'd guess something like the Yellow Lake Oilstone due to it's depth. But who knows. You've left out a lot of important details. How long did it take you to make it flat, and with what did you make it flat? Can you scratch it with your fingernail? Can you create slurry by putting water on the stone, and honing a razor about 30 strokes? Does it create swarf after thirty strokes instead? There's more, but I have a terrible cold, so somebody else take over.

Best thing to do is test it, Hone a razor, see what it feels like, It does remind me of coticule backing though....Slate....