A friend once posted that HAD "Hones(for)Another Day" is saving many of them with rekindled knowledge for generations to come.
~Richard
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A friend once posted that HAD "Hones(for)Another Day" is saving many of them with rekindled knowledge for generations to come.
~Richard
I'm done with cutting stones eKretz ! It's a lot of bother to be honest.
I don't have a water-cooled diamond saw so I had to rent it. The rental fee was ok, but cleaning the machine was a straightforward disaster. Slurry everywhere in the machine! And then I had the (bad?) luck to have found hybrid stones which are extremely hard, so it took ages to flatten the stones I had cut before using my belt sander.
Nevermore quoth I ...
Three
2K Naniwa ,BBW coti, Cloudy Thuringian.
Because I live Glens tag line.
2 barbers hones that came in lots, never used.
Wow, 10 pages already! Just getter crud for a couple of days and see what you miss....
My sensibilities are not so much with how many I have, but the investment, and I took delivery of two small ones yesterday.
Cheers, Steve
Just to make some of you drool a little bit:
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-K...o/P1080732.JPG
From left to right:
- a La Veinette bought off Ardennes
- a hone I found in my grandfather's workplace after he passed away. I'm not sure what he did with it as he never used a straight. In order to have an idea of the size of the stones, this one is 20 x 4.5cm. A fairly slow stone, but very nice edges.
- two stones I cut myself from pieces I found. Both are of the hybrid persuasion. One is glued to slate as there was a serious crack in it, so I wanted to be better safe than sorry. It makes for a good bench stone that way.
https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-0...o/P1080739.JPG
Then some smaller ones.
- a Les Latneuses bought off Ardennes 3cm x 12.5cm. Some would call this a slurry stone, I have used it as a full-blown hone.
- the first stone I found a few years ago during the Coticule Pelgrimage, I cut it myself afterwards.
- a vintage stone, I call it 'the Dalmatian'.
- another stone I cut myself, a small les Latneuses
https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-U...o/P1080745.JPG
- Another stone that belonged to my grandfather. Now, this one I use as a slurry stone.
- A La Grise (I think)
- An Old Rock slurry stone/travel hone
https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-S...o/P1080742.JPG
An odd vintage one. I talked to Maurice about it, and he thinks it's from a layer that's not exploited normally, because one of the sides has some inclusions in it. And indeed, there are some inclusions that make a clicking noise. I'm going to drill those out and then see how it goes with this one.
And below's another strange one. I think ... Dressante ? Not certain though. This one's been in my garden for ages as a raw rock, until recently I decided to cut it a bit and flatten it. It was a long job, because the top of the stone kept delaminating. In the end I just glued on the delaminated parts, otherwise I could have gone on flattening it until there was nothing left.
https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/--...o/P1080731.JPG
And look at what it does after 20 circles on water !?
https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-m...o/P1080744.JPG
Enjoy folks ;)
"mmmmm....coticule"
*Homer Simpson Drool*
Ohhh, that last one is really something. What sort of finish does it leave? I think you'll have everybody drooling with that one! And haha decraew, I said you can send me some raw stones - they don't need to be sawn or lapped! :deal: j/k bud, I hear you, it's a lot of work cutting those puppies up.
Well eKretz, I don't know what finish it leaves, as I have yet to test it!
Regarding the raw rock, I'll bring some when next I'll be near the quarry. At the moment, I have no raw rock left to be honest.