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Stones I've cut but not yet finished¬
I was asked to take some pictures of some of the stone I have been cutting and playing with.
Everything in the pictures is gathered from the Charnwood forest area. However non is from the Whittle Hill Quarry site. This stuff as all from other locations.
There are 6 siltstone types, and 4 of something else (possibly a diorite),
The front bouts are the most typical of each stone type.
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Nice CF type, But quite hard.
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Very hard CF type, Same stone as the square bout front left of group image.
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Very very hard CF type.
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Same stone as above very very hard CF type.
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Stones I've cut but not yet finished¬
So here they are...put both stones in some nice pictures....a very nice pattern and colour some light green line as a inclusion and some other inclusion which i hope are not toxic...
Thats the Hard Charnley Forest Stone (HCF) and yeah it was hard as hell....used a 200DMT and lapped about half an hour to remove traces of the cut....there is still a smal area left....
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Stones I've cut but not yet finished¬
Stones I've cut but not yet finished¬
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Originally Posted by
Iceni
Don't worry about a time frame.
Couldnt wait too long to do the test....i used a very nice 8/8 Filarmonica 14 Doble Temple José Monserrat Pou where the etching was lost during the use from the last owner. But i really like how the edges come of this nice straight!!
https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3903/...2f9c62_c_d.jpg
The razor lost a lot of sharpness and smooth ess during the last shaves so i thought i will try this nice Diorite Stone you sent me, i tried two steps with this stone....
1. Step: used that stone just with plain water using X- and paralell Strokes and look how the edge will perform...i think i did about 80-100 strokes with water, afterwards i stropped about 70 times on the leather strop...afterwards a very good HHT 4 was possible...hair just popped not noiseless but very easy, smal pieces of the hair could be chopped on sequence over the whole edge...
The shave was very smooth and comfortable...so i wasnt shure if it is really needed to use a thuringian slurry on this stone...compared to the thuringian it was a bit less smooth but very good...
2. Step: just tried to use thuringian slurry and created a light milky slurry on the stone, as the edge was already prepared on step 1 i only did further more 50 strokes with slurry and about 20 with plain water afterwards...then 60 times on the leather strop...
Concerning the HHT there was no upgrade, i stayed on a very good HHT 4....The shave got a bit smoother but it was also possible to feel from my experience that its no razor which was honed with a "Thuri" only procedure...
On both tests the bevel gets really mirror like finished....
So, to give a statement i have to admit that iam well suprised from that stone however it is called (Diorite or whatever)....its a very easy to use stone i would guess its impossible to really do anything wrong if youre a bit experienced, comparable to the use of thuringian stones. Another competitor in this size to put in a longer travel bag ;-)
So Blake are these findings comparable to the ones you did personally? What were youre results with plain water ?
Stones I've cut but not yet finished¬
Iam suprised and its more then being "alright" its a very good stone [emoji106][emoji106] this shows how good the community is working and how all the Rockhounting guys (Shaun, Dennis, Blake and all the others) are good in finind nice "New Age" stones!!
i will do further tests...and official here "Thank you Blake for providing me the stone for testing and for the Flickr Page" !!!