Thread: I Found It Over There

Originally Posted by RezDog

well that sure is a pretty one!

Yep, was the first hone I've made, and been a battle replicating it...

Thats funny, wet the hone has a greenish ting to it, but the slurry looks very rust coloured. That's pretty cool.

Yeah, its a good finishing hone, I shave off of it too....entire trunk area of my Jeep is full of the stone....hopefully I can make a few more

The first hone I have made in forever I am yet to find another rock like it. Every time I go to that area I look and look and evert rock I have brought home was full of inclusions. Some day, maybe I'll get lucky again. It's a pretty awesome hone. It was in the thread something new. I took it with me to Edmonton, Jon really likes it too.

I love making my own hones, had it not been for this thread I would never had made one or even tried.

Ah yes the beauty of giving others your obsession. And of course a thank you to WW243 who started the thread that has brought our obsessions together. LOL it's a fun day of rock cutting at my house. I'm not sure how the neighbors feel about the Stihl screening all morning, I wear ear muffs perhaps they should too.

Iam trying to look out for some rockhaunting....it seems to be that not far away from my home there seems to be some older formations which were used as a kind of whetstone...

Older Literature says that it is a kind of great whetstone...which wasnt quarried that much and was used as an alternative for the Milanese Whetstone...

Iam quite shure that this might not be able to be used on straights in this thinking...but in general i will give it a try and look to find something...

That is a slippery slope. Once you start to look, you will look at every rock with suspect, could this be the one, what are it features and qualities. Hmmmm, you may be catching the rockhound bug too.

First i have to contact some geologists from my region, they have a kind of a geology path and they should know where which formation is...hopefully they know about the history (the literature ist most of the 19th century)....

Thats what I hate about the US, not many hones quarried out of the east if any that i know of, but at the same time kinda cool considering its somewhat unexplored in the honing world. Just seems the stone here is inconsistent... I do love that one ive made so far, need to send it off to someone with a lot more experience than myself though for a better judgement.

Any honemeisters up for a challenge?