Thread: Hone ID please!

I bought this hone at an antique store for about 10 dollars! I have past up this hone several times in the past 2 years thinking it was just a piece of cut stone! Yesterday I was in the area doing repairs so I thought I would take a look and see what they had! I asked about razor hones, and she pulled this one out, so I tested it and was satisfied that it was indeed a hone! My tests so far seem to indicate that it is finer than a Blue Belgian! It is a very hard stone and cuts slowly with an almost non existent scratch pattern, but it definitely removes metal! It has a glassy appearance when held to the light at the right angle, sort of like an Escher, although I am not certain that this stone is as fine as an escher, but I will soon find out!
Anyone have any ideas?

no idea!

haven't seen one like it

It sure is purty though isn't it?

..Anyone??

Looks like a odd belgian yellow, maybe we can get Howard to weigh in or Rob from Ardennes. Shoot them a PM Mark.

Have you lapped it?
Does the backside look the same?
Does it produce slurry?

Bart.

Originally Posted by Bart

Have you lapped it?
Does the backside look the same?
Does it produce slurry?

Bart.

The scans are of the front and back! Exactly the same! It gives no slurry! I tried with just about anything I could and suspect that the resultant slurry was from the hard as hell barber hones I was using to create the slurry, so I took a file to it. Barely any hone removed but put a nice shine on the file and no slurry! At this point, I took the edge of the file and rubbed it on the side of the hone, and it removed a nice amount of metal, then with the other edge of the file, I rubbed it back and forth on the side of a coticule and found it didn't seem to remove the metal quite as fast, not certain though! I compared the shine and the scratch pattern through a 5x loup and it looks very similar! I guess the next step is to actually hone a razor to see where this might fit!

Oh, the stone is lapped and flat as a pancake!

Wow... if it's not flat it may be impossible to lap?

[edit] yeesh, read my mind and answered before I asked the question...

Originally Posted by JMS

The scans are of the front and back! Exactly the same! It gives no slurry! I tried with just about anything I could and suspect that the resultant slurry was from the hard as hell barber hones I was using to create the slurry, so I took a file to it. Barely any hone removed but put a nice shine on the file and no slurry! At this point, I took the edge of the file and rubbed it on the side of the hone, and it removed a nice amount of metal, then with the other edge of the file, I rubbed it back and forth on the side of a coticule and found it didn't seem to remove the metal quite as fast, not certain though! I compared the shine and the scratch pattern through a 5x loup and it looks very similar! I guess the next step is to actually hone a razor to see where this might fit!

Well, in that case, I really have no idea what hone it could possibly be.
Sounds exciting though.
Good luck,
Bart.