Thread: Dead point, need your help!

• Hello all good people. I need your help! I have 4 stones, which I think are hones but I do not have any idea what they can be or what is grit of this hones. Please help me identify this stones.I have described them as much as possible.
  
  Stone 1
  Color when dry: Dark going into black color
  Color when wet: Dark
  Color of wet slurry: Grey, more into dark grey
  Color of dry slurry: Grey
  Fell without slurry: Very delicate, smooth
  Feel with slurry: Very delicate, smooth
  Hardness: Very hard stone
  Time needed to create slurry: 12 laps on DMT 325
  Level of difficulty to create slurry: Medium
  Lapping experience: Very hard stone, do not lap easy
  Stone patterns: Plain
  Slurry feel: Ash like
  
  Stone 2
  Color when dry: Grey, light grey
  Color when wet: Light grey
  Color of wet slurry: Grey
  Color of dry slurry: Grey going into white
  Fell without slurry: Very smooth
  Feel with slurry: Very smooth
  Hardness: Soft going into very soft
  Time needed to create slurry: 5-8 laps
  Level of difficulty to create slurry: Very easy
  Lapping experience: Very easy to lap, quickly,
  Stone patterns: Waves across
  
  Stone 3
  Color when dry: Chocolate
  Color when wet: Dark Chocolate
  Color of wet slurry: Dark, muddy brown
  Color of dry slurry: Dark brown
  Fell without slurry: Smooth
  Feel with slurry: Smooth
  Hardness: Soft
  Time needed to create slurry: 10-14 laps
  Level of difficulty to create slurry: Medium
  Lapping experience: Easy to lap
  Stone patterns: None
  
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  Stone 4
  Color when dry: Brown with silver shining patterns
  Color when wet: Brown
  Color of wet slurry: Dark brown
  Color of dry slurry: Light brown
  Fell without slurry: not as smooth, felling stone patterns
  Feel with slurry: smooth, delicate
  Hardness: fairly hard
  Time needed to create slurry: 20 laps
  Level of difficulty to create slurry: Hard
  Lapping experience: Medium time
  Stone patterns: Silver minerals like patterns
  
  
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The stone on the first 3 pictures look like yellow lake. The stone and slurry looks like some of mine. For the others I don't know, accept they remind me of British slate hones. The first, if it is like mine should be in the 7-9k grit category. It will not be easy to identify them.

The one with the parallel lines could be a silkstone?

I have no idea what I got and what grit so I have decided took 15 straight razor and hone them all the same way with my existing and know grit stones. Then I will take 400x microscope, take pictures and compare it side by side with unknown stones. It will take a lot of time but at lest I will have some data base to work with.

Can't wait for the pics I'm almost positive that's a silkstone though.

Originally Posted by brooksie967

The one with the parallel lines could be a silkstone?

Why?

Regards,
Neil

The grey stone with the milky white slurry reminds me of a thuringian, and if the slurry smells like an earthy, chalky smell it would remind me more of a thuringian.

The description of "stone one" sounds like a slate hone. I say that because from the few that I have owned, the slurry gets into dark grey, and the color of slurry is one of the few ways to distinguish it from a thuringian.

Originally Posted by Neil Miller

Why?

Regards,
Neil

Why could it be a silkstone?

Well... because that's how it looks to me. http://straightrazorpalace.com/hones...s-story-3.html

Maybe a 'silkvein' stone or similar? http://straightrazorpalace.com/hones...gian-blue.html ref: post 10.

Just a thought, that's all.