Thread: Hone found in old shaving Box. Any ideas of what it could be?

Skiffer är inget att hänga i granen
"Shale is nothing to hang in the tree"

Originally Posted by Lemur

I got some hones with streaks like that, I thought they were shale.
Any good way to tell Thuringian, Schwedenstein and Shale apart?

The texture of a Thuringian is usually smooth whereas the texture of a Schwedenstein is patchy with tiny speckles. Here's a good close-up from Undream:

Originally Posted by Frameback

Skiffer är inget att hänga i granen
"Shale is nothing to hang in the tree"

Haha, it can actually be really nice, the vikings used it and nobody complained about their swords being dull!

I am in it with Piet and also if I am remebering right he was recently selling one of these razor/hone/strop boxes. Good find.