Thread: Identifying a random Japanese Natural stone

Originally Posted by JamesT

There is no label... The stone is very fine and it looks exactly like labeled stones however - so I assumed it was Magog.

There is no such thing as a labeled Magog if you found one please post pics been looking and searching for a long time!

Seriously just saw one last week maybe on ebay i am not joking.

Edit it might have just said canada celebrated or something to that effect

Originally Posted by JamesT

Seriously just saw one last week maybe on ebay i am not joking.

Edit it might have just said canada celebrated or something to that effect

if you could post a pic of the cleaned side of the stone it will be very easy to tell if the stone is a Jnat. The fact it has all that dark spotting on the surface makes me suspicious it is not a Jnat but a side photo will help identifying the rock.

Originally Posted by JamesT

Seriously just saw one last week maybe on ebay i am not joking.

Edit it might have just said canada celebrated or something to that effect

Canada celebrated, Canada oilstone have been somewhat common we are talking about Magog oilstone here!

here is a picture of one on a site that out of stock
Vintage Canada Oilstone / Hindostan Hone

Originally Posted by Suile

here is a picture of one on a site that out of stock
Vintage Canada Oilstone / Hindostan Hone

Thats not a Magog oilstone

There's a magog on ebay right now. At least it's listed as such, and it's cheap.

Originally Posted by DaveW

There's a magog on ebay right now. At least it's listed as such, and it's cheap.

Listed as such, how can you call something that you have nothing to compared to? thats the uk seller on ebay who loves to give his stones famous names.

There are many eschers listed as such as well!

Originally Posted by mainaman

if you could post a pic of the cleaned side of the stone it will be very easy to tell if the stone is a Jnat. The fact it has all that dark spotting on the surface makes me suspicious it is not a Jnat but a side photo will help identifying the rock.

Ill get one tomorrow

Originally Posted by Martin103

Listed as such, how can you call something that you have nothing to compared to? thats the uk seller on ebay who loves to give his stones famous names.

There are many eschers listed as such as well!

No clue, I wouldn't buy it expecting it to beat an escher.

I have bought 3 stones from AJ, though (two slates and a big charnley), and been pleased with all three - all are easily capable of finishing a razor with no follow-up of anything but bare leather. But given that there are a lot of stones suspected to be such things on his listings, that's why I said "at least it's listed as such".

I'd like to not villify the guy, given that he's not asking much for anything, it's only the postage that the UK's postal system wants for confirmed mail that really grouches me.