Another Hone ID thread

[hatzicho]

I also got a comparable one with the same stains:





These stones were widely used by clockmakers for example (even so in germany, where these stones are not so present).

[zib]

I have a similar looking hone I was given, I'd rate mine around the 4k level. YHMV (Your hone may vary)

[brooksie967]

Correct me if i'm wrong but isn't a washita just a soft ark?

[Hirlau]

Sort of looks like my grandfather's stone that he used for finishing the edge on his field knives.
He was a farmer who cut turnips & collard greens all week for over 40 years. He kept a Carborundum & this unknown stone on his truck's dash board.

[Theseus]

Correct me if i'm wrong but isn't a washita just a soft ark?

I may be mistaken, but I think that the Washita's are mined in a different area than what are known as Arkansas hones. Both novaculite, just from different areas.

[brooksie967]

Different areas in Arkansas though?

[Suile]

Correct me if i'm wrong but isn't a washita just a soft ark?

Washita Is a stone from those moutains. Is what i always thought they where.
So it has nothing to do with the grit or grade of the stone.

[Magpie]

The washita stones I have had seemed to fall more between the soft ark, and the hard ark. Hirlau, yours could be either a Washi, or a hard ark, (just not as fine as a translucent)

[32t]

Yep, here's the other side. This side is actually the side which has been subject to all the use.

Attachment 120708

Grant

I wonder how much this has been used to wear it that much. From what I have seen of Arkansas, Novcaulite, or whatever you want to call it they are very hard.

[gooser]

I have a similar looking hone I was given, I'd rate mine around the 4k level. YHMV (Your hone may vary)

after all the reading i do on here i just figured out what YHMV ment ...lol.. guess im not the sharpest razor in the seven day set ...lol
thanks !!!!!!!!!!!!