Thread: I Found It Over There

Todays experimental cut of the Matterhorn lump. This was a split shard. I spit the big lump in 2 and this piece came from the incorrect grain angle due to the lump having a secondary crack at the edge causing a 90 degree plate to form. I knocked the plate off and it made this! The rest of the lump appear to have split in grain. I'm going to tackle one of the other lumps on Thursday and see if I can make good on this chunk of stone.

Todays working has given me a little more insight into this stone. Following the natural cracks and splitting the rock like you would with wood leaves you with a pretty good surface to start to work with. Also even in a small small cross grain lump like this you can see the different layers. Not all the layers are silky smooth, Some have grains that are sandy and black, Some are light, others are darker. The red spots appear to go through the grain by quite a depth and are not quite as layer locked as the particles.