Thread: I Found It Over There

Doing a little yard clean up on the weekend and decided to burry a bunch of cast offs. There were two like this in the garbage pile.

Originally Posted by RezDog

Doing a little yard clean up on the weekend and decided to burry a bunch of cast offs. There were two like this in the garbage pile.

DAMN!!!! Looks like some big pieces in there. Cant use them?

All the big pieces in there have issues. Tiny fractures or inclusions or I just didn't like the hones they made. I have been through an amazing volume of rock over the years. The last two years have been the big ones. You find one nice hone and pretty soon you are dragging a ton of stuff home.

Recently got this piece here from dennisthebarber. It's a piece of rock from his home state of Kentucky. Very hard, it doesn't slurry but it does produce a very nice edge. I was sent this piece and a darker. More testing will tell but currently I'm liking the darker slightly more. They're an immense amount of work to get turned into a hone so I am rather fortunate to have gotten these as I don't see him doing any more. I'm still in testing phases and getting it dialed in but so far, so good.

Originally Posted by rickboone

Recently got this piece here from dennisthebarber. It's a piece of rock from his home state of Kentucky. Very hard, it doesn't slurry but it does produce a very nice edge. I was sent this piece and a darker. More testing will tell but currently I'm liking the darker slightly more. They're an immense amount of work to get turned into a hone so I am rather fortunate to have gotten these as I don't see him doing any more. I'm still in testing phases and getting it dialed in but so far, so good.

stone on right...

Yes unless you have some crazy equipment making a hone takes a lot of time. It is a great hobby though. I hope Dennis keeps going but a man only gets so many hours in a day. It is a very nice looking hone.

Yeow, I'm looking at the pic above and thinking part of that crazy equipment is a skid loader......to bury the dead.

Originally Posted by RezDog

Yes unless you have some crazy equipment making a hone takes a lot of time. It is a great hobby though. I hope Dennis keeps going but a man only gets so many hours in a day. It is a very nice looking hone.

LMAO, that one isn't mine. Once upon a time I ran heavy equipment, so the local contractor is willing to rent me equipment.

Originally Posted by RezDog

LMAO, that one isn't mine. Once upon a time I ran heavy equipment, so the local contractor is willing to rent me equipment.

However Great "TOOLS" [emoji106][emoji106]

i need to find about 8 thousand dollors.lol. I'd be able to cut some of my local stones easily. [emoji4]