Thread: Which side of slurry stone to use help please

Originally Posted by Dllandry

The small 2in stone is what was with the larger one and I called the slurry stone. If it was original to the set I dont know its what came with the large hone. The side pic of the 2in stone is there it has a wedge shape of the grey stone on the top half.

It took me a while but I finally understand your description. I pictured it as being the dimensions of 1/4 of a barber hone, so with two surfaces significantly wider that the other two sides. Given the wedge shape of the stone transition, I would assume it is a natural stone and not combination of a Thuringian and Tam O'Shanter.

I suppose I'd suggest using whatever side of the rubber that seems to most closely match the large stone. If one side of the rubber is scratching, you can fix that by lapping it. If you don't have a lapping plate, you can accomplish this easily by rubbing the scratchy side against the narrow, unused side of the large stone. However, if you use the strategy shown in the figure provided by Jimmy, then the scratching probably won't be an issue, but I'd still lap it smooth anyway.

If the light side of the slurriestone is a ToS the dark side might be Water of Ayre which should be finer. I don't know if they occur naturally joined but they used to be glued together a lot. There's an example of one at the classifieds.

Is that why yes slurry stone is leaving scratches in the hone