Thread: I Found It Over There

Some quick picks of my latest find. I do hope I can get some more.

I've got some new slate to try out, but I haven't been in much of a hurry on lapping it. It sits beside my granite and SiC station and when I lap a knife sharpening stone I use up the left over SiC with the slate. I've almost got a big enough lapped patch to try.

So pared to other rocks. Most slate and shale is so soft, it laps quite fast. I have not got a vibrating lap for lapidary/ hone making, so it’s all by hand. As nice of hones that some of the volcanic rock has been, lapping is crazy.

Originally Posted by RezDog

Some quick picks of my latest find. I do hope I can get some more.

Interesting stone. Do you have a wetsaw or did you lap from a relatively flat raw stone?

I cut that piece off with a grinder. Smoothed it as best I could with the grinder and then lapped it. I’m at work until April 20th, once I get home I have a wet saw and will do some more cutting, and hopefully grab some more pieces on my way home.

So I guess it is best to move this here from the thread below.
https://sharprazorpalace.com/hones/1...-hounds-3.html

I still have a ways to go but I got the rock flattened all but a couple of tiny spots. Here's what it looks like underneath nature's handiwork.


Darn pretty stone I think. Although it looks more green in person than it does in the photo.
It still have not been lapped or burnished but I ran a razor across the diamond plate on both sides and then worked it on this stone on one of the sides to have a comparison. In the current state it looks like a pretty good mid-range stone but once it is lapped and smoothed I'm hoping it will be good as a finisher.

Originally Posted by PaulFLUS

So I guess it is best to move this here from the thread below.
https://sharprazorpalace.com/hones/1...-hounds-3.html

I still have a ways to go but I got the rock flattened all but a couple of tiny spots. Here's what it looks like underneath nature's handiwork.


Darn pretty stone I think. Although it looks more green in person than it does in the photo.
It still have not been lapped or burnished but I ran a razor across the diamond plate on both sides and then worked it on this stone on one of the sides to have a comparison. In the current state it looks like a pretty good mid-range stone but once it is lapped and smoothed I'm hoping it will be good as a finisher.

With that coloration, it could be a nephrite jade. Might be worth taking to the geology dept.
I have a nephrite jade and it is a finisher. It is more green than the photo shows also.

Yes, that looks very very similar to this stone. I got it completely lapped and dressed it on wet/dry up to 1,000. I found it to be very much like an ark in character in terms of speed. It does however produce an edge that is very shiny. I'm just about to do a test shave from it now.

REPORTING BACK: so the test shave was quite interesting. It was dead keen and shaved quite well but leaned more toward the crisp side than smooth. I guess I would characterize it more like an ark edge than a coti edge But not exactly like either one. I'm going to play with it a little more on a razor I'm more in tune with. This was an imperial extra hollow ground but not one from my rotation. It is one that I was going to send to a member but decided it was not a good one for someone learning to hone. I'll give a more detailed report once I have tested it out more thoroughly, suffice it to say that it is a fine finisher though.

Most Nephrite Jade comes from Western Canada though it can be found in Wyoming. It's the state mineral.