Thread: Lemurs Rocks!

Some more small unknowns and my trusty Coticule, old, hard, won't slurry by it self and a natural combo, nice!
The one on the left is the finer of them but no way close to the stones above.
The right one is not as fine, almost gritty but these two used in progression is a good deal, fast and gives a nice edge.



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Paddle stone!

It's very fine, haven't used it much, will try it someday.



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Anyone know what this and the above are?

Originally Posted by Lemur

It must be the photo/screens that gives any other color than grey, it's pure battleship gray with some faint streaks of lighter gray.
Have tried it on 4 razors now and it's gives a finer edge than the Escher but is a tad slower, otherwise they feel the same, butter smooth!
Top smaller hone is an yellow/green Escher for comparison.

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Lemurs rock! I love when they go out and warm up in the morning sun!

that looks like blue green thuringian to me, nice

Another one!

Really hard, a pita to lap, sort of cream colored with a hint of pink in it, some pores, with diamond made slurry it cuts like a 1K, without it's like 6K.



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Edit: It's a good bevel setter tho!

Unknown black rock!

The long one, black, harder than the Escher and not as fine but still o good finisher, some lines in it but they're nontoxic.
Slurry on all the gray/black rocks here and above is white/gray.



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My guesses are:
The left one Thuri
Right one Dalmore Blue
Cream one manmade hone
The paddle Swedenstein
The last one hard to say.

Originally Posted by adrspach

My guesses are:
The left one Thuri
Right one Dalmore Blue
Cream one manmade hone
The paddle Swedenstein
The last one hard to say.

Dalmore blue, that could be it!
It was bought together with an old razor and said to be a "razor hone", it got this strange feeling to it, not super fine but still feels coarser than it is, like a Thuringen with sand on.
I tried it side by side with a hone that earlier was identified as Dalmore Blue and they have the similar grittyness, this one is just darker, a little harder and finer in grit but to call it a "razor hone" makes me shudder.

The cream one I've been thinking it could be man made to, but was is it?
It got a ceramic sound to it when I handle it.

Isn't the cream one an Arkansas? By how the water stands on that right stone I don't think it's a DB. DBs are very porous and suck the water in forming wet spots.

Originally Posted by Piet

Isn't the cream one an Arkansas? By how the water stands on that right stone I don't think it's a DB. DBs are very porous and suck the water in forming wet spots.

Well I haven't got a clue on the cream stone, the "maybe DB" is not porous at all.

A suggestion to any of you rock hounds that photograph a lot of stones for ID:

Get a Wilson Art North Sea D90 sample (get the matte 60) sent to you: Wilsonart Contract - Product Detail
They don't charge anything for the 2"x3" sample, and it's VERY close to neutral gray.

Put that card in the photo with your hones, and then we can adjust the color balance to be sure we're all seeing the same thing.
(or if you know how to adjust the white balance of your camera off of a neutral gray card, that works too)

edit: if you want to really go nuts, also get a Designer White D354 and a Black 1595. Be sure to get the matte option for all three. (shiny will reflect colors from your surroundings)
http://www.wilsonartcontract.com/sam...white-d354-60/
http://www.wilsonartcontract.com/sam...black-1595-60/