Thread: First natural hone: dark and light green oil stone

Originally Posted by Vasilis

I agree with adrspach for the method, but I think the stone is a Grecian. From UK.

While I was waiting on the stone to arrive I was searching all the terms I could think of to find something similar. The first stone in this thread was the closest I could find based on the patterns, not sure how close the colors are. http://straightrazorpalace.com/hones...ian-hones.html

Here's a quote from that thread:

Originally Posted by Piet

adrspach who has been in the Llyn Idwal quarry thinks he saw these Grecians as well as the harder darkgreen stones at the quarry. So both types seem to be LIs, although it might be useful to call these softer lightgreen stones Grecians to distinguish them from the harder darkgreen type.

So before actually looking at the edge it produces on a razor, is it safe to assume the grit is 10k, +/- 1k?

Only one thing can be safely assumed in world of natural hones and that is that they differ from each other. Apart from that one could expect that it should be finisher.