Requesting help to ID stone/hone

[silvertnge]

Hey guys,

I have seen several threads where you guys show a greater experience with hones and blades then I will ever get.

So I would appreciate your help with identifying this stone i bough on a flea market. No stamps or text anywhere, seems it was previously glued to a wooden box.

As for feel, the surface is very smooth and seems to give a good edge on a blade as a finisher under running water (havent tried it too much yet)

 

[Toro Blanco]

Looks like a Thuri! Can you make some slurry on it and take a picture.

 

[Saxon]

Looks like a Thuri to me as well.

 

[RobbyC]

As above, looks to be a thuri to me! Take a few photos wet and with slurry and that should help
Rob

 

[silvertnge]

Thanks for the replies!

How do you guys recommend making a slurry on the stone?

How should i use it when putting a finish on it?

How should it be lapped?

 

[silvertnge]

I worked a slurry with a 1200 diamond hone, hopefully this showes what you guys asked for.

Still curious as to how the stone should be treated, thankful for all tips and all help so far.

 

[ajduplessis]

Thuri, lap the stone flat (1.2k is good) and use with water. no Slurry required.

 

[SliceOfLife]

I'd agree with the Thuri calls, based on dimensions and surface appearance. From the sawmarks and color, very late era one is my guess, as the dark blues started shifting to darker grey coloring.


I never bother with slurry on Thuringians. They're so fast and fine that slurry doesn't even really do anything except faster polishing on the bevel... doesn't speed up refinement at the edge any in my experience. Comes down to a feedback/feel decision. If you prefer the feel with slurry, use it, otherwise, don't.

 

[CCR]

I was jipped today and lesson learned the hard way i guess. I recently just got my oldest son into SR and set him up with lapping film to keep a fresh edge. Seen a old barbers hone on ebay and won the bid at 20$. By the pictures it looked to be about 5" x 7" hone. It arrived in a small envelope today and is 1 3/4 " x 2 3/8" i just laughed, figured i'd still give it to him as a gag gift after i build him up about buying him a hone

 

[SliceOfLife]

Yeah the master hone is one of those DE hones from the early 20th century. Sorry about your luck man.