Mystery hones... Let's see what you have
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Obviously Rob C is the real expert here, but everything about that has Charnley written all over it
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Obviously Rob C is the real expert here, but everything about that has Charnley written all over it
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timwcic
"Look what I found"
It looks like one of my CF that Was glued in that nasty glue, plaster, filler crap. You stone is in the old, rounded shape, very nice. A good soak and a wire brush made it happy again. Can’t help you with the lapping
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Phew! CF finally lapped. Glad I decided not to subject my Atoma to that.
Nice! Was that all on wet n dry? (Dare I ask how long/how many sheets...)
Yep. Started with two sheets of 80 grit, and got it flat (it was fairly flat already, luckily) and got the gouges 90% out, then 120 grit for a sheet until it was all smooth, and chamfered the edges a little, then a sheet of 600 to remove the visible scratches.
I'll probably give it a good buff with coticule slurry stone to dress it a little more before use.
It was probably about an hour job, all up. And I spent a bit of time cleaning up the inside of the box from all the old oil gunk.
That's not too bad, nice work! They are pretty aren't they
What dimensions is it btw? Bit tricky to tell from here...
It's about 205mm long, and 40mm in the middle.That's not too bad, nice work! They are pretty aren't they
What dimensions is it btw? Bit tricky to tell from here...
Here's a lot of four stones I hope will prove a nice pickup at a bit under $20 Aus per stone. I don't have these yet, but I'm impatient, so anyone got any thoughts? There's a Pike 'Handihone', I hope the one in the middle may be a Washita, and if I'm lucky the dark one might be a Turkish or possibly a black ark, but very tricky to tell here. Light grey one in the box I'm pretty lost on, maybe an ark of some kind...?
The one in the box looks like a hard ark, possibly a white hard once it's cleaned up. I finally got a full ark progression down and the grey hard have their place in it. Putting a fine hard washita in the mix was the game changer, i was able to set a belvel with it. Then grey hard, white hard(translucent) , true translucent and i polish with an old norton 4x2 translucent slip stone. Worked brilliantly. I don't know **** it took so long to try the washita, i was kinda scared it would eat a razor so i used a beater. No chips under the loupe, and it only sounded rough a couple strokes(not as bad as my 3k synth everyone) and then it got kinda glassy feeling, even after cleaning and re- oiling, i think i was just done. After 10 more strokes it would loudly ttt.
Yeah - that's the only thing I could think of for the grey one, I'm fairly sure it's not a white/trans though. It'd be a slightly strange set of stones to find here, if they are what I've guessed. But I certainly wouldn't be complaining!
I got a pretty big primitive cut translucent that looks grey like that if it's not in really bright light. I bought these today. Im curious to see what they are, iim not holding my breath though.
Bonus: I also got these recently, but they aren't here yet. Black one is a synthetic combo, i think the one on the left is a hindostan. Ive never even see one before soo....
The narrower, longer, grey one is a slate. Difficult to say what kind tbh, but at a guess perhaps German. The two that are almost maroon / reddish could also be slates, though they could be synthetic - really difficult to tell atm.
That'd be some crazy patterning even for a Hindostan I think, could be though. Possibly reminds me also of some of those patterned modern 'Washitas' / soft arks... (?)
Honestly reddish looks like a crazy coticule pattern to me, but a modern ark with enough blur in the pictures we can't see the texture makes sense too. Were there no side pics in the listing? That'd tell you really fast what it is.
First bunch all look like slates that were left soaking in dirty oil for a few decades.
First bunch all look like slates that were left soaking in dirty oil for a few decades.
The big one is almost square. Crazy looking pieces, I'm down to try anything i got a place for it.
When i have seen pictures of this stone my first thought was it's a thuri
When finely got the stone in my hands was a little surprised
26cm x5cmx2cm
With a 4cm slurry stone
Looks like Thuri but I think it's not
It takes minutes to raise slurry
Thin misty hardly visible slurry
All most nothing at all
It is a hard stone
Tried to finish a razor on it and it looks like a good finisher
Totally different finishing properties than the thuris that a have
Could you please share your thoughts about this stone
When finely got the stone in my hands was a little surprised
26cm x5cmx2cm
With a 4cm slurry stone
Looks like Thuri but I think it's not
It takes minutes to raise slurry
Thin misty hardly visible slurry
All most nothing at all
It is a hard stone
Tried to finish a razor on it and it looks like a good finisher
Totally different finishing properties than the thuris that a have
Could you please share your thoughts about this stone
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