Thread: Lots of work coming my way

Good luck with those. I hope they clean up well. IMO the one stone is a combo but smaller than I like to hone with.

Yep, lots of work.

I'm happy to see that the American Knife Company frameback isn't nearly as rusted out as the pictures show. LOTS of rust, but it appears to be mainly surface rust and (hopefully) very little pitting. I'll be able to find out more after I get home and can get my hands on some abrasives.

I've also been told that a friend has a stash of maple, oak and poplar that may already be cut into 1/8" widths, and that I can have my pick of the wood. Not sure about poplar, but the others sound promising. He said he also has some of the multicolored laminated "zebrawood" as well, though it's mainly for gunstocks and such and isn’t cut to size for scales.

I admit I’m leaning toward getting some black paper micarta and scaling them back up to look more traditional, though the black linen looks mighty nice as well. And it’s hard to beat the price and the fact that it’s stabilized and already cut to width.

Now that I’ve got a bunch of razors I need to see if I can start acquiring a decent set of hones. It seems I keep missing the deals when they crop up.

- Mark (S-4-C)

Lots of kudos to that seller for the amount, the clarity and the non-euphemistic nature of his pics!

the tally-ho is nice too but i find most interesting the funky frameback

that certainly looks like a coticule, would've liked to know what the longer slate colored hone is but oh well...

By the way, any ideas on what kind of hone this might be? Just the speckling stopped me considering it a piece of an enameled tile.