Thread: Mint green hone with orange dots

I recently purchased this hone on the bay from a GB vendor. It came in a typical wood storage, but hasn’t been used with oil in the past.
It’s a hard hone, maybe novaculite, so it could be a CF or LI. But I have not seen a hone in this mint color stained with lighter colored patches and with orange and dark/black dots.







Any idea what it is?

I don't know, however, I recently got one myself - very pretty.
I haven't had much time to play with it yet, though.
It was advertised as a Cambrian

Well looking at the first pic looks very green color, the others pics looks more like blue grey and the wet areas a little on the green side. Looking at pic #3 i would say its a Lynn Idwall, the apparent flaking is very typical to LI. Does it produce a milky white slurry? Perhaps a pic of the chipped end would help the identification of this stone? Would you say that its a finisher?

I'd say it was a LI. Remember they are not all the same. I've had a similar one to that with orange dots. Why don't you test it?

It must be a cutler's green hone!

(i pondered ordering one of those but the shipping cost from AJ is just too high to play around with unverified stones once you already have enough other unverified hones. I wish he would ship economy with no tracking for repeat customers who are not a threat requiring signature confirmation)

Originally Posted by DaveW

It must be a cutler's green hone!

(i pondered ordering one of those but the shipping cost from AJ is just too high to play around with unverified stones once you already have enough other unverified hones. I wish he would ship economy with no tracking for repeat customers who are not a threat requiring signature confirmation)

Calling a stone a Cutler's green without provenance is like calling a thuri an Escher.

I had not much time to try it in detail right now. Slurry is light milky mint green. Stone is as hard as some of my LI due to my opinion but takes more material than a LI during honing.
From the grit and honing capability I would rate it between a TOS and a LI. This would also fit for a mixture of both concerning the look. Green color from the LI, dots from the TOS. But it ain't that easy!

By the way, this is not the stone AJ sells as possible cutlers green. I got one of these too and the stones are totally different.

Originally Posted by hatzicho

Any idea what it is?

Did you taste it yet?

Originally Posted by DaveW

Did you taste it yet?

Minty with an aftertaste of rust, perhaps?

Regards,
Neil