Thread: The......Belgian Brotherhood?

Originally Posted by Lesslemming

yes, it is much more evident now. It´s clearly a natural.
Unfortunately it seems to be grown to schist* that is (almost) unusable for sharpening action.
But the stone is extremely nice anyway!


*unless the colouration of the picture is messed up

Looks to me like there are actually three layers. 1) Coticule with a natural contact to a 2) thin BBW layer (lighter color in middle). The bottom of the BBW has been lapped and glued to 3) a schist (darker, thicker layer at bottom). Pics 1 and 3 show this best. I'd say the BBW was deemed too thin to be usable (or stable) and was glued to the schist.

That's my interpretation. YMMV....