Thread: I Found It Over There

Joamo; Did you ever get much out of that slate that you won after the pass around?

Originally Posted by bluesman7

Joamo; Did you ever get much out of that slate that you won after the pass around?

I still have it, but havent used it in quite awhile. I remember it as a good, fine, cutter but it left random scratches on the bevel.
I'll have to give it another go soon, I'll report back.
Were you on on the Ice Hone passaround? That one was interesting.

Originally Posted by joamo

I still have it, but havent used it in quite awhile. I remember it as a good, fine, cutter but it left random scratches on the bevel.
I'll have to give it another go soon, I'll report back.
Were you on on the Ice Hone passaround? That one was interesting.

Yes, I tried that one too. On either of those hones I did not do much with surface prep other than trying different lubes like water, oil, etc.

Here my another hounded exemplar

Its name is "Green Tiger" check that out:

(the surface is whet).

I've found it in my city in one of neighbours garden
No clue where it came from...
It has pretty the form you can see on the picture, the front surface needed not much lapping.
It is quite small (8cm x 7cm), think it might still work for 5/8 and smaller blades...

After lapping and burnishing its surface became velvet-smooth and shiny.


Love its pattern (x20):


As per grit estimation its comming quite close to my Y/G-B Thury, but I've seen some bigger inclusions, not sure what they are doing to the edge. As I was testing it around 2 Years back I've had no magnification possibilities to check. will give it some testing.




Looking forward to experiment with it.

Regards

Philipp

Yet another one lost guy which has found his new home in my shelf.

a Basalt-Bout, haven't give it a name yet (is that strange?)


Have taken it from a lake in Saxonia, pretty sure it was brought over there from some other place.
There were thousands of those rocks, I've just picked one with most suitable form.
Very little lapping was required, but I've a feeling the surface is still not perfectly flat...




Has beautifull orange skin on the sides and nice pattern on its back.




The surface is full of little black dots, visible my naked eyes (the pic is taken at 20x):


... and ever more little white spots between them (visible at highjer maginification level of 160x):


Seems to be a quite porous one

Here for compare the surface of my YG/B-Thuri:


Cheers gens

Philipp

Beautiful stone. The size is useable if you're careful, but bigger would be better
Not all inclusions are bad, the darker Sioux quartzite of mine has a quartz crystal imbedded in the middle. It lapped down with the rest of the stone and causes no issues at all.

A few years back, while on a road trip, I picked up some shale rocks from along a roadcut, intending to cut hones from them. They turned out to be very soft and as I thought at the time, unsuitable for sharpening razors. They became decorative rock in my wife’s flowerbed.
Recently, I was able to pick up an inexpensive J-Nat, my first, and did not have any nagura. Remembering the shales, I cut a chunk off, lapped and shaped it. A thick olive green mud slurried up on the J-Nat and I was very pleased with the resulting frosty bevel and keen edge.
I decided to try them as hones, robbing the flowerbed of the shale and cut two small rectangular pieces. They needed sealing, as some of the layers were prone to splitting. Gorilla brand clear glue did a good job of that and once dry, the stones were lapped. One of the stones had issues right away with a thin layer of material that crumbled and created a large fissure. I cut that piece in half to salvage what I could. The other piece lapped up nicely.
On plain water, the stones left a fine scratch pattern with just a few deeper rogue scratches. Raising a slurry with the previously cut nagura gave me a frosty bevel without any of the rogue scratches. The edge was sharp and smooth, even better than the J-Nat edge.
I found another piece hiding among the flowers and was able to make a nice, large, koppa. There was no cutting, just lapped flat and sealed.
The pics are below, along with a few experimental nagura, cut from selected pieces of river rock. Never know until you try
The shale is wet in the pics but drys out very fast. The tomo is in front of the bellhop

Long weekend and my wife and I planned a waterfall tour of a neighboring state.
Nice hikes, good views, good company and the ulterior motive... lots of rocks to sift through, being a low flow season.
This was the best of the lot, an adequate finisher, pretty too!
I'm really enjoying the hunt, the find and the preparation of these found stones.

Nice one. It is quite pretty. I have been inactive with the rocks for some time. I’ve kind of ran out of personal need. I typically rock hunt while I deer hunt. This year is a skip on deer hunting, so likely no rock hounding either. I do feel a little more inspired at the moment though. Thanks

I have some red slate that seems promising. This is from a layer in the Fountain formation that is ubiquitous in the front range here. I had looked at this layer before, but it seemed too soft and not abrasive enough to bother with. I knew of a spot where this layer was a bit harder, I think from contact metamorfism, that is very promising. I've used it successfully as a finisher on knives, but haven't finished lapping it to where I could try a razor on it yet.