Here's a unique razor hone with luckily just enough label left to ID. This is the label to start, barely anything legible:
All I could really make out was red and a rectangular box around the outside. I decided to just seal it anyways with my spray acrylic so I could use it and dang if while spraying the label details started to pop right out. I instantly saw a deer! Then Genuine Water Hone and Directions.
After seeing all these details it didn't take much googling to find a couple reference labels.
Lapping is strong yellow pale green that smells identical to a thuringian:
Here is the stone cleaned up and next to my recent two tone Escher for reference
Fine lines on side barely visible and really frustrating to photograph:
Stone is the about 7"x1.5" or 175x36x17mm and 2.87sg. As the label promised this is a killer water hone and the edge was perfect. Indistinguishable from my other thuringians in use. Maybe the slurry is a bit grittier/faster feeling but it is hard to tell. Honed and shaved with my Puma razor that struggled recently on my new WoA. Thick slurry to clean water. Absolute breeze to hone on and shave with.
If i didnt have the label I would surely be calling this a brown-yellow thuringian like hone based on honing feel, slurry, shave and bevel appearance. The fine lines on the side are unique though and the darker blobs could be stains or inherent it is hard to tell. I had to lap a small mid dip out and it seemed to take quite long for how muddy it was. I got pretty lucky the acrylic spray helped me read the label briefly, now that the spray has dried it is harder to see. Pretty cool to get an American Water Hone that performs as well as those foreign imports!
All I could really make out was red and a rectangular box around the outside. I decided to just seal it anyways with my spray acrylic so I could use it and dang if while spraying the label details started to pop right out. I instantly saw a deer! Then Genuine Water Hone and Directions.
After seeing all these details it didn't take much googling to find a couple reference labels.
Lapping is strong yellow pale green that smells identical to a thuringian:
Here is the stone cleaned up and next to my recent two tone Escher for reference
Fine lines on side barely visible and really frustrating to photograph:
Stone is the about 7"x1.5" or 175x36x17mm and 2.87sg. As the label promised this is a killer water hone and the edge was perfect. Indistinguishable from my other thuringians in use. Maybe the slurry is a bit grittier/faster feeling but it is hard to tell. Honed and shaved with my Puma razor that struggled recently on my new WoA. Thick slurry to clean water. Absolute breeze to hone on and shave with.
If i didnt have the label I would surely be calling this a brown-yellow thuringian like hone based on honing feel, slurry, shave and bevel appearance. The fine lines on the side are unique though and the darker blobs could be stains or inherent it is hard to tell. I had to lap a small mid dip out and it seemed to take quite long for how muddy it was. I got pretty lucky the acrylic spray helped me read the label briefly, now that the spray has dried it is harder to see. Pretty cool to get an American Water Hone that performs as well as those foreign imports!