Thread: Another Mystery Hone

Sorry about the photo

I got this on ebay in a vintage knife sharpening tool lot (vintage knife steel, Carborundum hone and paddle type hone)

It's translucent white fading to greenish with veins of green into the white and sort of a solid gray on one end. It's hard and smooth like marble.

Any ideas??

Another case of abusive hone owners, LOL
Guess when you have lapped it it will shine like a Ouachita

Originally Posted by 0livia

Another case of abusive hone owners, LOL
Guess when you have lapped it it will shine like a Ouachita

It's actually flat as glass on top (I think) and hard, my 750 diamond hone won't touch it.

Oh! Excuse me, looks quite gooey but the "glass" sounds much like Arkansas.

Looks like a translucent Arkansas to me. Lapping it may be a job for that yellow powder discussed in another thread! Should clean up very pretty like a huge block of semi-precious gem. Have you tried to hone on it?

Originally Posted by Croaker

Looks like a translucent Arkansas to me. Lapping it may be a job for that yellow powder discussed in another thread! Should clean up very pretty like a huge block of semi-precious gem. Have you tried to hone on it?

I haven't tried it yet, I still trying to figure out a lapping strategy. I think it would eat my Norton lapping stone for lunch, probably the 750 diamond also.

Originally Posted by 0livia

Oh! Excuse me, looks quite gooey but the "glass" sounds much like Arkansas.

My picture makes it look a little convex, but with a straight edge it seems to be flat. I'm thinking Arkansas myself.

Yeah, don't destroy your DMT on that stone! Probably has a Moh hardness of at least 7, and is way thick. Maybe you could get things started by laying pieces of 120 grit wet/dry sandpaper on a flat hard surface and doing some wet figure 8's. They will wear out fast. Won't get your stone perfectly flat but maybe close enough to finish with your DMT. I have had to resort to this with couple of hones, and it did help.

Maybe some slightly better pictures. In person the non-white parts look fairly green.

In use it feels sort of like a C12k without the blade suction if that makes sense

I don't know what the hell it is, but it looks like you've got three hones in one!