Thread: Got a stone from a farmer, they had used it for chytes

Originally Posted by carlmaloschneider

I don't think poor Einar is going to get ANY of those jokes!

True You have bad shoes?

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.

Originally Posted by Lemur

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.

Ok, trying to find my good camera, think I have a macro lens somewere

Originally Posted by Einar

True You have bad shoes?

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...

Originally Posted by carlmaloschneider

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...

Aha, good to now

Imagine it's the larger type. But I know that farmers were particular when sharpenig scythes, same with woodworking axes. They need to be polished and razor sharp

Originally Posted by Hirlau

This appears to be a common Carborundum stone used for scythes, as Lemur said. The older Carborundums were the same color as yours, the more recent are grey in color, with a grit rating mostly found at 180-250.
I might be a little off on the grit, I would have to look it up in my charts to be specific.

FYI, this stone would be a nightmare for any razor. Nice of them to give it to you, so now all you need is a scythe.

I recall as a youngster watching my grandfather using a two handed large scythe and sharpening it with a gritty stone. The stone IIRC was a man made Carborundum stone oval in shape and 8-10 inches long. Funny I can still see him standing there sharpening it.

Bob

Originally Posted by Einar

Aha, good to now

Imagine it's the larger type. But I know that farmers were particular when sharpenig scythes, same with woodworking axes. They need to be polished and razor sharp

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.

Originally Posted by Oakeshott

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.

Cool, we don't have tobacco farms here, to cold. Imagine the plants are hard? Like corn?

Totaly O,T do you know if lucky strike aditive free, realy are "pure" tobacco? My favorite smokes now

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.

Originally Posted by adrspach

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.

Sent him a PM, ty