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It's pink/red with some translucent part with white/black. Wonder if it's any good. Feel's amost like glass to the touch.
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It's pink/red with some translucent part with white/black. Wonder if it's any good. Feel's amost like glass to the touch.
Can be very good, you only know when you've tried it.
Flatten it and have a go.... and more pics when you do!
What's a chyte.?
Trying to change it, only gives me the post to edit, not the topic.
I've seen both Thuringens and Coticules used for scytes, to do their job they do need really good stones, like the stones used for razors.
I've also seen crappy stones used for them... guess it was what they could find but don't think they where happy with them.
Not going to be easy to get it flat, realy hard:/
No DMT / Atoma?
Only SP...
Where are you located? You can get some SiC powder in 400gr for about 5 bucks off eBay here in the states and it will make short work of nearly anything. You could then use 800 or 1000gr w/d to finish the surface.
Very curious about that rock. Please let us know what you find.
Using 80grit now, takes some time and sweat but geting there;)
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Din't get it totaly flat, need more paper. Atleast it's good looking for me:)
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. :shrug:
,,,,a photo of one from Ebay,,,,,Attachment 142624
Aren't that a manmade stone?
The picture of the one I showed you, above, is a man made stone & yours looks to me like a man made stone also.
I don't have your stone to handle, but don't let the "backside", photo # 2 , convince you it's a natural. I've seen that kind of "damage" in Carborundums before.
The only part of your post that puzzles me is that you stated that it felt like glass,,,,I surely don't get that impression from your photos.
It only polishes my nail, so alot higher grit then 300 atleast. Look's like a stone to me, but not sure:)
Regardless of the stone, I love the title of the Post: I got a stone from a farmer, they had used it for chytes....if I posted right now, not to hijack the thread it it would be called: I got an India stone from Ebay laughing insanely while burning a $50 bill...they used it for Chit.
I'm confident it is not a carbo stone. Its amazing the stones that nature toss out of the ground now and then...
As far as I know it's stone from telemark norway. The place I live were one of the largest exporter of hones, 1000years ago. The closest city is funded on that trade:)
I don't know what it is, but for chytes and giggles I'd give it a shot.
Also, you and carlmaloschneider have similar tastes in shoes, I think.
Btw if u don't have a clue on rock type, what lubricant to use? Try both water and oil, and see what works the best?
Tried it on a new surgeon scalpel blade now, made it sharper... So it's a finishing stone:) Happy with this one:) And for free also;)
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.