Thread: Suffer from HAD? - How many do you have?

A friend once posted that HAD "Hones(for)Another Day" is saving many of them with rekindled knowledge for generations to come.
~Richard

Originally Posted by eKretz

Feel free to cut me a few coticules!

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 ...

Originally Posted by Geezer

A friend once posted that HAD "Hones(for)Another Day" is saving many of them with rekindled knowledge for generations to come.
~Richard

I have the same thing with razors Richard. I cannot see a nice razor at a flea-market and let it bond with oxigen!
So I see it as my mission to save them for generations to come

Originally Posted by Lynn

I'm not really sure that I want to know how many hones I have here..........

The shock of knowing might damage my fragile sensibilities...........

Happy Holidays!!

Yup, pretty much the same with me.
It's enough with the Mrs. nagging me about all them rocks around the house

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:



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.


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


- 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



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.







And look at what it does after 20 circles on water !?


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! 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.