True;) You have bad shoes? ;)
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Try and get some good close up pics, wet n dry, with slurry and swarf and of the fractured end, perhaps someone can identify it.
No, I have very very nice boots. Brown. There was (is) a thread here that goes for an astonishingly number of pages all about what brown boots I should buy, etc etc.
Was the scythe one of those smaller one's you hold in one hand or the larger ones you use with two hands? I'm wondering how smooth the blade of a scythe needs to be, I can't imagine spending the time to get the edge to that smoothness. I wonder if it was used for something else as well? I guess the farmers would know though...
I grew up on a tobacco farm and we had makeshift tobacco "knives" that were really more like thin bladed hatchets. We only called them knives. We would sharpen these twice a day on a very rough grit wheel mounted to the bed of the tobacco truck and turned by hand. You wouldn't let this wheel sit on the floor under the table on top of which you set down a razor for fear it would destroy it. I can imagine, however, that for scything wheat or hay, you'd need a much sharper implement and maybe that sort of stone was it.
I want one.
Have you tried to contact Margeja? I know that he was visiting Norway last year and was mapping quite few locations and their hones. If he does not know perhaps can give you contact for somebody who does.
Please do not rush him give him time to answer.