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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Same but bigger pics here; http://i.imgur.com/UUmRzU0.jpg and http://i.imgur.com/s1oNr0p.jpg

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