Vintage Boker Natural Stone

[whipdog]

I got this off the bay a while back just out of curiosity. The wooden box is built to hold a razor and also has a stone and small strop on bottom. The stone is the interesting part to me. It is a natural stone mostly green in color. The green is streaky varying from light green to dark. When wet these colors come out much more. It also has areas that have speckles of a golden color in it. The slurry is a light brown color. At first I thought it may be a charnley but it laps and slurrys way too easy to be a charnley. I dont think its a thury either. I have had several of both thuringians and charnley forests and it is unlike any I have owned. It sounds strange compared to my other naturals. Kinda of like what I think honing on a chalkboard would sound like. It produces a fantastic edge whatever it is. Here are some pics.

[whipdog]

[Disburden]

Sham at razorandstone.com probably knows what it is since he lives in a rock quarry.

[PapaFish]

What a neat little setup! It reminds me of my EDGE-UCATOR Strop/Hone http://badgerandblade.com/vb/showthr...TOR-Hone-Strop, with a place to carry a straight built in, only mine has a barber's hone, not a natural hone. It's possible it's a form of slate (shale, slate, phyllite, schist). You can find slate in all kinds of colors. I have a brown slate that develops a dark brown slurry, and a piece of dark grey slate that used in conjunction with a piece of dark brown/black oil shale produces almost no slurry. The only one of these stones that produces a daily shavable edge is my oil shale when finished on mineral oil. It's not some 12K+ stone, but it would get a guy by. All of my slate variants will glimmer in sunlight, showing off their micro-quartz. How is the condition of the leather on your strop? Mine took a lot of neetsfoot oil to rehydrate (about 15ml). I hope you enjoy!

[hig789]

Are you sure it's not a coticule. I have one that is almost blue. They come in all different colors and patterns.