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:rofl2: .... but I never called you a little weirdo, Mark!

Now what turned that hone so yellow....
dig up your secret color charts please. :)

yes, the third, Dylan!
Have't seen a Thuringian of that color in any of the other threads about them.

not seriously....
I've did some strokes on it with a very hard Wüsthof that remained unimpressed.
Yet have to dig out for a honed blade that is a bit softer and see what it does on a polished...

Excuse me, Chris! :)

The upper picture is all one hone.
Dry, just a bit lapped,
back side
and wet front side

This little weirdo arrived in the mail today.

http://www.olivia-seife.de/images/x-tommy.jpg

it feels like a harder thuringian
it has microscopically small pyrite inclusions
it smells clayish...