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I don't have a clue. You could get a loupe. Or just try and shave off of it and see how it works.

Cool. How rough is it?

I don't know that it is quite common I have never seen a hone like that. Without using it I couldn't say it would be good for razors or not but it is defiantly different and would be nice in a hone...

I was watching that stone also and with the letters being embossed I am almost 100% sure its a synthetic.

It's probably not that hard. A DMT 600 is going to take a long time for any stone. I have a DMT8C which is 325 and it takes a good while to lap a stone that has any dishing to it.

I would guess its a piece of welsh slate. I got one smaller that looks a lot like that. Can you post a close up of it. I don't have a pic of mine handy though.

It was in bad shape when I got it and thanks to my worn out DMT i got over an hour into lapping it right now. But it cleaned up nice and was well worth it.

Thank you I had to do a bunch of lapping on it because of that gouge you see the remnants of. I thought about just leaving it as it is because you can't feel it when you are honing, but I think...

I think the true color of it is going to be the one showin the chipped corner.

I am almost positive that it is a thuringian and I did finish a razor on it with only water, it left an edge very similar to my small 6" thuringian.

Yeah I know the pictures are bad. Sorry. The top one was taken outside in the shade. The bottom one was taken in a lightbox. The inclusion is where a gouge was that I didn't feel like lapping out at...

Hey guys I bought this stone last weekend at an antique store for $8 it was originally set in a block of wood. I bough it thinking it was a thuringian but after posting it on multiple forums some...