Thread: I Found It Over There

AHHHH I see what you mean. Does it shine through the stone ?? Those are beautiful pictures btw

It won't shine all the way through, it only penetrates about 1/4". A regular black Ark will block all light.

Yes. Thats called defraction. BUT how does it hone? Rub a smaller ark on it..Then feel it.

Check the Ark thread!

All that set aside...How does it hone?

Originally Posted by HaiKarate

The lights not going through it. Thats an edge reflection. Thats a nice looking stone though.

They are gray translucent stones. Call them black translucents is just something that the seller does, I guess because his mining rights include some very dark gray translucents, but they are much more similar to a translucent stone than a blank stone and should probably be called dark gray translucents.

They are extremely dense. I doubt mine passes light all the way through, but it has a higher specific gravity than any other true hard ark stone that I have (I have 10 of them, vintage to new).

Yep. Thank you for bringing up specific gravity.

Semantics. It's black. It's translucent. Add those two together and what do you get. Go ahead I'll wait.

Anyways they hone great. And also if the light penatrates through even if not all the way it's still translucent. I guess you would have to hold one in hand to know but I took pictures to prove it and I'm sure there are others that will agree with me on it.

Oh and it was sold to me as a hard black arkansas, not a translucent. I have translucents and regular black stones that are much larger and I still prefer my "black translucent"

Did you guys measure your S.G.? I measured mine as accurately as I could but only have a postal scale, so not sure how accurate it is - measured out at 2.67.

My dark trans measured a hair above 2.8. I want to go recheck it, because I don't have any other stones that measured that high, but the shape of it was regular (so it's a simple matter of measuring the three dimensions and taking the mass).

I don't have any other stones that topped 2.7, which makes me think it's worth remeasuring. 2.60-2.65 is where most of my stones start out.
Anything that's gritty and arkansas type goes from 2.3 to 2.5 and washitas are below 2.3, some significantly so (as low as 2.0)