Thread: Hone ID

Originally Posted by Geezer

Do Not Use A Sharpy.. Some stones will never lose the image left by absorption of the ink. Coticule and shaptons and some manmades and some other naturals eat the ink and there you have it for a loooong time.
YMMV!
~Richard

What about using the sharpie test? Luckily it comes of easily from Nani 1k.

Originally Posted by Euclid440

Met a guy the other day who pans for gold, he said he buys bags of sand from Home Depot and pans out gold. Don’t know how much gold but at current prices…

60 -80 grit Silicon Carbide will get it flat, use a sharpie to mark the stone, as pencil will wash off on the first pass. You only need a table spoon or so for a stone.

I does take some work but not too much time.

Man that's awesome yea I saw a youtube clip on that. It's tons of fun I got a gem that I gonna have to have someone look at to know what it is. So funny though how people tell me there's no gold on the east coast. Gold is pricy I once dropped a friend off to pick up a car and the guy gave me 100 bucks for tolls and gas and a piece of 1/3 gram of gold worth 75 bucks at the time.