Thread: I Found It Over There

It's good to get on a roll.

Originally Posted by RezDog

It's good to get on a roll.

The black slate I've previously used is quite a bit softer, but also slower than this stone. Reminds me a lot of the dark slate honestly as far as the edge goes though. This stone has far more very tiny sparkles in it, which show up a bit in the picture...the razor I used it on has a highly mirrored bevel off of it with no scratch pattern at all, I have no problem rating it at a 12-15k range based on the shave off this stone today and the fact it removed any sign of a scratch pattern.

Gotta do more testing when I get a chance obviously as 1 honing doesnt show its potential, only used water without slurry as well, going to prep a matching slurry stone tonight as well.



Modine...if you read this, ill probably send this stone out to you with the other one for testing and feedback as well, your reviews are always so good and I'd love your input.

It looks fantastic Dennis.

How thick did you make the stone. And what sort of density/weight is it?

I'm heading out to York today, for our summer Christmas dinner. We do it every year since our family is spread all over now and meeting in December means we never all get to the same spot at the same time.

The location we will meet will be Malton. There is some interesting Geology in the area, And some Ancient British history. Namely there are some chariot burials in Wetwang from the pre-roman celts.

I'm going to have a wander down the river Derwent if I get chance. And see if I can spot anything of interest. I thick my target should be the Scalby formation.

http://www.bgs.ac.uk/lexicon/lexicon.cfm?pub=SCY