Thread: French Hones

Here are a few more comparison pics in sunlight and artificial light. These are different than the labeled Special stones or La lunes. Like most naturals they vary in size, performance characteristics and quality. While the mining location may be unknown, these came from Europe.
Mike







artificial light

Posted some pictures here http://straightrazorpalace.com/hones...e-hone-id.html
a while ago, where you can see the color differences.

another addition to make more confusion...this one is on the way to me, i am quite shure that this one is a purple one....
Interesting is that it also say like named on the Fox Hone "The Best (Hone) in the World" can be used with water and oil...
....haha and ist says "GERMAN MAKE"...size is like the most smal hones in wooden cases (E&Co. Celebrated German Water Hone, The Celebrated Water Razor Hone) 5 x 1inch

Hello french hones specialists!

My new stone!

Bought to a friend of mine who found it on an attic sale, with a strop and an old dovo! He doesn't like to hone his straight razors so he sold it to me!
I think it's a La Lune or a grey Vosgienne, what do you think??
I didn't lap it yet, we can see the size on one side 175mm by 40mm and next to it, nearly removed, a stamp!
Pictures:


The bottom:


Is the stamp visible for you( a rectangle)?



Thank you!

Originally Posted by guillaume

Hello french hones specialists!

My new stone!

Bought to a friend of mine who found it on an attic sale, with a strop and an old dovo! He doesn't like to hone his straight razors so he sold it to me!
I think it's a La Lune or a grey Vosgienne, what do you think??
I didn't lap it yet, we can see the size on one side 175mm by 40mm and next to it, nearly removed, a stamp!
Pictures:


The bottom:


Is the stamp visible for you( a rectangle)?



Thank you!

Looks quite like the one I have posted on side 1 of this thread. If the stones are not lapped they look quite rough. But the appearance as well as the saw marks on the side seem that you really have a special stone here. Does it have the metallic shinning when wet?

Also the rectangular stamps are typicall. Normally they say fine or very fine (Modine has posted some perfect examples here). But I also have two stones where you can only see the rectangular frame and the words have gone. Enjoy!

Summarizing Piet and Margeja we may have a simple formular here that would fit for most (not all!) stones of this kind:
Fox hone = Goldfisch Wetzstein = Lorraine stone = Special BBW Layer ! Agreed?

Hi Hatzicho,

Yes it looks like yours!