Thread: I Found It Over There

Originally Posted by RezDog

That's not very nice. That leaves about a 5" piece. Sorry about that. I'm at work too and can't cut you another on for three weeks.

Dont worry about it, ill give it a try first, should be enough to work with

Originally Posted by DennisBarberShop

It arrived Rez....sadly it looks like they played hacky sack with it....love postal workers...

Got a nice big slurry stone now haha

Looks like Jim Carey from ace Ventura delivered the package.

Originally Posted by DennisBarberShop

It arrived Rez....sadly it looks like they played hacky sack with it....love postal workers...

Got a nice big slurry stone now haha

Looks beautiful though.

Originally Posted by Vasilis

Looks beautiful though.

Yep, looks really nice wet and makes a milky white slurry....gotta lap it tonight

Show me a picture of what it looks like all lapped up

Forgot it at work, ill have to try to remember it tomorrow

Hi guys, great thread. I've been eyeballing a slate face outside Ouray Colorado. If I remember right from some discussion of the Welsh slates, you get good hones when there's an igneous intrusion fairly close by. That's the case with the Ouray deposit. I've got a couple of chunks of it somewhere, but haven't gotten serious about smoothing and testing them. How do you secure the rocks for smoothing with an angle grinder?

I just lay them in the grass, maybe give them a good stomp or two, although I have to confess I've been playing with some big rocks lately and there is a picture of my rock reducer earlier in the tread.

Ive found with slate that it is soft enough that a belt sander works well, and I have a 50 dollar tile wet saw from lowes that I use to make them rectangular without chipping them

Finally got a chance to lap the stone you sent me Rez. Hard as heck...feels pretty fine....no clue what it is stone wise though...or grit till I try it on some steel

Dry


Wet