Thread: I Found It Over There

Originally Posted by DennisBarberShop

Nice, I need to go scavenging the roadside I guess

I believe the flaking helps...get us small enough rocks to tote. But yeah I like to have at least an inch of non-flaky in the middle. I check the broken side for an idea, then "trim" things up with an axe (poll side), and scurry back to the truck.

I have a lot more cuts to check out--for better or worser specimens.

Originally Posted by RezDog

Your pics are gone
... Strange stuff going on.

imgur was being difficult and then i used the wrong format and now it's fixed. hey whassa strange about that?

Dunno but that one I made the other day is the best finisher I have ever used, that thing improved the shave on every razor ive used it on so far

Waiting on my buddy to bring me some bigger rocks to work on

my first really nice rock has been the best so far. Unfortunately I've not found more exactly the same. I hope you get repeatable hones. I have trouble with logging mine as to which rock came from where. I don't know how things are there but rock changes super fast here.

In general lapidary blades really have no teeth at all. More like grooves filled with diamond and the saw has a gravity feed mechanism. back in the geology lab we used a Diesel and oil mixture for cooling and lube. The blade would very slowly chip away at the rock.

I've seen a few of those. They all run an oil cooling/lubricating fluid. Not sure about that if you want to use them with water later. You would have to clean the oil off. I have a friend that has a couple 16" ones, so I could get hime to do cutting if I wanted to go down that road

Well, those two are out. NEXT!

Might work for intermediate, but did not help edge off 8k tonight. So I went to Africa! Two fresh ZG jobs on the sink prepared for a showdown tonight.

These rocks were from 10 miles away. I think my stepping stone was better. I'll start numbering them, because good gravy it would certainly suck to get mixed up and work up a bunch of the wrong rock. Or to forget where the good one came from. Note to self: Limit reconnaissance runs to one or two places per trip, and make notes.

See, this is from one end of the cut over there too. There's a whole different layer a little further down.

One problem is that all of these locations are on the grade (of 8-16%). Parking and walking gets long in some places. Hey...now i'll have another reason to stop the bike and get off on the hills (usually for oxygen- huff puff), now to "look at some rocks". Will suck going down, no forget that, I don't stop going down the hill.

I hear you on that. The guy that rock hounds with is kind of funny, in the humorous way. The last time we were out I had climb up a short slope and them a little ways up a rock face and was prying out a rock for near the base of a large over hanging rock, he said "Is everything ok at home". We came up with a new system on marking where rocks come from. It is a little complicated to explain the details of. Basically it is a distance reference combined with a geography reference that get marked on the rocks with chalk initially and then paint pen when they are dry and in theory that will also be on each hone in paint pen.

Lol, easy on pulling out those support stones under boulders haha. I wish id gotten down to lake cumberland when they lowered it to its lowest point since the man made lake was created...id assume those rocks woulda been eroded some but not frozen at those depths, too bad I slacked

Reading this thread has got me wondering if there might be stone around me that's useful. I've been looking at purchasing my first set of hones but heck if I can find them instead that frees up more money for more razors!

With that said, does anyone have a link or source of info that gives a break-down of the type of rocks you want to look for. I know we have tons of shale and slate around here.