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Hello,
Has anyone heard of or seen a black Tam O Shanter????
Or could this be a "Water of Ayr"? It is a very good finisher, so it could be both :hmmm:
I bought it from ebay.uk.
Thank you and best regards from Munich, Bavaria,
Rainer
http://666kb.com/i/ce7foudetwgwm0qj4.jpg
http://666kb.com/i/ce7fp5lls8sc1um34.jpg
On my monitor it looks brown. A WOA is dark gray to black. Black when wet. I've had it in a labeled box with a WOA/Tam combo. Anyway, the true Tam will always have speckles or dots in throughout the stone. This is why it was also known as a snakeskin hone, or something like that. If it has dots it is a Tam.
Thanks, Jimmy.
The colour is dark grey to black, not brown. I'll take a close up tomorrow.
now here are the close ups:
http://666kb.com/i/ce8hc88makf5vvlmt.jpg
http://666kb.com/i/ce8hchfzqnj5a80g5.jpg
by comparison, my white TOS on same scale:
http://666kb.com/i/ce8hee9kilkyrkw1x.jpg
http://666kb.com/i/ce8helphx4i9tqp1h.jpg
It's a TAM. The white ones cut more finely than the darker ones - usually!
Regards,
Neil
I had a WOA combo, as previously stated. It had none of the speckles but was a monolithic black/gray. I had a small Tam labeled as a pocket knife hone I got from Coulee, that was black and had the speckles very like the ones in your picture above. So my guess is it is a Tam but it is hard to tell from photos. I'll send a link to to this thread to the guy who bought my WOA and maybe he will opine.
The first two pics are darker Tams. The third is a WoA. WoA have sporadic, rather large darker dots, often linked by hair-thin dark lines.
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Regards,
Neil
thank you very much, Jimmy and Neil.
Now I'm sure that I have a very dark TAM O'SHANTER!
I have another stone, pale grey with those sporadic, rather large darker dots Neil mentioned, but not linked by hair-thin dark lines.
Perhaps this is a WoA?
http://666kb.com/i/ce8msq2qu4od7nqrp.jpg
http://666kb.com/i/ce8mswto5b8xjw0n9.jpg
The dots are not always linked by lines. Sometimes you may get just two or three dots on a single hone. I have never seen a very light WoA, but I suppose there could be one. Usually they are slate-grey going on to very dark, almost black when wet. The following are all WoA hones:
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Regards,
Neil
That certainly is a lovely stone - thanks for posting the close-up picture. Never seen a WoA like that! I do not think it is a WoA, however.
Is it very hard and glassy? Hard to lap and to raise a slurry on? It looks almost like some sort of LI variant....
Regards,
Neil
