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  1. 06-14-2013, 02:18 PM #1
    vaga
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    Default Hone identification - please help

    Could anyone identify this stone?

    It is quite large: 225 x 80 x 18 mm, looks like cocoa brown, sometimes graphite grey. Seems to be a finisher.
    Has got small spots or veins of jade green colour. Please have a look at these pictures.
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  2. 06-14-2013, 02:46 PM #2
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    Looks like Welsh slate. I like mine with a light slurry, and have used it as a finisher successfully.
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  4. 06-14-2013, 02:59 PM #3
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    Definitely purple honing slate, probably from Wales. The green spots are a give-away.

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  6. 06-14-2013, 04:19 PM #4
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    I am on with Neil.
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