Never seen a Charnley with this pattern, seen a boat load in person, online, and countless picture of the actual quarry.
Would be interesting to see side and bottom pictures of this stone.
Never seen a Charnley with this pattern, seen a boat load in person, online, and countless picture of the actual quarry.
Would be interesting to see side and bottom pictures of this stone.
Thanks Martin. Got one from each angle, both wet and dry...and in the sun - oh the sun (not seen it i quite a while). Hopefully one of them helps, otherwise more than happy to plus up with whatever you think would be better
http://i.imgur.com/e6Bmf5B.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/Zc3HkyN.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/CI6tJ20.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/pHpiJEg.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/yIUPEti.jpg
I don't think it is a charnley forest just based on the dimensions and how thin the hone is. Not that it can't be, but most are hand cut rough and rounded on the bottom. Even my labled one which was cut using more modern tools is much thicker and has rough spots on the sides and bottom.
Can you show pistyres of those chipped corners without water. from these last pics I would tend to go more towards very fine sandstone.
Ordovician Thuringian maybe
The bottom one almost looks like a La Lorraine. I said almost.............
The purple stone look like the Lin Merlyn slate or one of the purple vosgienne hones .Whatever it is it is a good stuff
The smaller stone look like the stones that Hazitcho meister describe here
http://straightrazorpalace.com/hones...ian-hones.html
Whatever they are they are good stuff - They ont make them so good anymore