Thread: Help needed to identify hone

Originally Posted by adrspach

To be honest from side striation on the stone I would not be too surprised if that was man made hone.

BAH! I totally overlooked that and was too stuck on the cutting face. I think you might be right there! It's TOO uniform on the side, now that I look at it, to be a natural stone, unless it was a slate based stone? The 3 welsh stones I picked up don't 'look' natural either! The only way you can tell is by raising a slurry and smelling the rock or taking a really close look and seeing the subtle veins in the stone.

I'm a little torn here. I've also never seen a 'man made' hone with so many larger sized imperfections in it. All the man mades I've seen are way more uniform in color than that.