Thread: I Found It Over There

No biggie, interesting stuff for sure!

I'm joining in on the rock hound

and in answer to the statement in the title of this thread: I found it near Fontaine Bleau, which is a world famous bouldering area about 80 km south of Paris. the boulders around this place are made of sandstone, but a lot of them have a sort of shell partially around them made of metamorphised sandstone I guess, These boulders are way to big to take home (we go there to climb these boulders) and aren't very usefull as razor hones since they would be way to course.

this is me trying to climb one of them:


luckely a lot of the smaller rocks at the campsite are some type of metamorphised sandstone and could be quite usefull.

so I took this piece of rock home with me, it seems to be a flint stone to me which should have a nice cryotocristalline morphology which I hope will turn into something usefull

this is the piece I took home



now for me this will be the difficult part: turning this rock into a hone, at my disposal, a dremel with a small diamond blade...

I'm going to try and make a cut around the rock and then try to split it using a wig type of metal or maybe fryzing it while submurged in water, don't know yet

If you have one use an angle grinder, If you don't and want to keep things as cheap as possible get a tile blade for a 12" hacksaw.