HAD PEOPLE LET'S resolve this challenge?

**McWolf1969** · 07-02-2009, 02:31 AM

Originally Posted by hi_bud_gl

Anyone any time welcome to touch,play, test and mediate any of my stones just bring your own razor's to play with.

Well, all in all, that is probably one of the most fantastic honing stones we are going to see...pure yellow Jasper, is really hard to find, in that size.
Thanks for the invite Sham...i dont think there could be anything funner than messing with those stones you've got.
If ya have a reason, to visit Washington, certainly let me know.

Mac

**DwarvenChef** · 07-02-2009, 06:49 AM

Originally Posted by 0livia

ok, if that technique with beauty overload doesn't work,
we'll try scary HAD:
Go here and click on "Sharpening Stones"!

Meditating would be nice but we could also try to analyze briefly with acids and microscopes and the like...

Didn't know she had a mean streak

**0livia** · 07-02-2009, 03:08 PM

Just trying to help GW out of misery and now its me!
Can't let him drown, can I?

Sham if I ever get the chance to visit the USA
I will take your word for it.
Your offer tops my original sightseeing plans by far.

Busy searching Jasper now....

**hi_bud_gl** · 07-02-2009, 03:13 PM

anytime welcome

**0livia** · 07-05-2009, 09:22 PM

My mineralogical brother says:

It looks like a sweetwater diatomee chalcedon or jasper.
Similar to Arkansas hones. Disadvantage is that it makes a diamond saw dull in no time. If its a dense jasper it would be quite similar to a glass- or porcellain-plate and it has a very hard bond. You can not scratch it with a nail.

**McWolf1969** · 07-05-2009, 10:38 PM

Your brother is a minerologist? Lucky Olivia!

Mac

**0livia** · 07-05-2009, 10:44 PM

Yes he is. Started out when he was five years old, coming back with a broken piece of quartz crystal from the field and been into rocks ever since.

**A_S** · 08-14-2009, 11:32 AM

Originally Posted by ChrisL

Sham, is that sedimentary layering on the side view of the stone or just dirt? There was a well known novaculite (Arkansas stones are novaculites) stone called the Hindostan stone which was found primarily or possibly even exclusively in the state of Indiana.

Hindostan was used often as a whetstone even for razors and was also used to make gravestones.

Here are some pictures that will probably not help all that much that I found on the net:

Thick/thin edge banding on the side of a Hindostan stone

Hindostan Gravestones

If you scroll down on that same site, there are some links to history papers about the whetstone industry in Indiana in the early 1800's.

I doubt yours is a Hindostan, but the color seemed similar. If yours isn't, then......SOMEONE go to Orange County, Indiana and get us some Hindostan whetstone!!

Chris L

Apologies for reviving an old thread, but some good information about the Hindostan Whetstone can be found here The Indiana Stone and Building Industry, 1886

Regards,
Alex

**hi_bud_gl** · 08-14-2009, 12:51 PM

Chris
I miss your last post i guess i went back to that stone it doesn't have thick and thin layers. i really don't know what is it exactly

**randydance062449** · 08-15-2009, 06:45 AM

Sham, I just saw this thread. Beautiful stone!

Can you scratch it with a nail?

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