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    Default Mystery hone

    Can anyone help me identify what kind of hone this is I have been looking for a long time and cannot find one!
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    How hard is it? What's the colour of the slurry? Any more photos? It can be a Japanese natural, Thuringian, Charnley and many more.

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    Seriously ???

    We are really really good, but were going to need just a bit more detail

    Size
    Slurry
    Smell
    Better pics
    Feel, in comparison to known hones

    As many detailed clues as possible will really help
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    Sorry this is my first post..
    it's about 1inch wide and 4 inches long
    I have a small yellow green Escher this stone is more of a light grey color and it is a very soft stone very fine finish much more than my yellow green.


    Quote Originally Posted by gssixgun View Post
    Seriously ???

    We are really really good, but were going to need just a bit more detail

    Size
    Slurry
    Smell
    Better pics
    Feel, in comparison to known hones

    As many detailed clues as possible will really help

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    It could be a thuringian...let's see some close up photos of the surface both wet and dry, also with slurry. Does it leave a white mark if you scratch the stone with a metal object? It definitely seems to have a slight green tint, I have a thurigian of similar color.

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    This is a photo of a friends stone would you be able to post a picture of your stone I have searched through hundreds of photos of Escher stones and thungarian but haven't seen this kind which I would like to buy. For some reason this color I haven't seen in a larger stone

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    Thuringians being a natural stone have a myriad of colors, take a look at the photo in this thread:
    http://straightrazorpalace.com/hones...d-stone-2.html

    There is a collage of photos of many thuringian samples (color "swatches") showing the range of colors and tints that we find them in. I have and have had thuringians in colors from light grey/green all the way to dark olive/brown, there are many variations.

    Not this is not to say that the stone you have shown is thuringian, we would need to see some more photos and know the slurry color. By the softness and color it could be thuringian though.

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    By looking at those picture is is clearly very fine Prophet's hone originaly used for polishing very hard materials such as to make crystal clear finish on glass balls.
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