Thread: Ebay Gamble

Great looking stones Marshal, I vote Washita and a very good one at that.

EKretz and Alien Edge, I believe you are Both right in your thinking, so there, that ends the battle.

Marshal, the big one is definitely a good example of a "black translucent" and I'd guess the banded one is probably a hard or soft Ark.

As far as the "battle" goes, I just consider it a discussion. And that is what discussion forums are for, isn't it? Different viewpoints ought to be able to be aired and discussed without conflict - and I don't think AE and I were at each other's throats at all - merely discussing our varied thoughts. And I thank him for the discussion, no less!

I'm not quite sure I'm believing what I'm seeing here. So I busted out my Soft and Hard Arkansas stones. Both of these have pores that are readily visible to the naked eye, but I checked them out under my 60X loupe anyway and spent a few moments just kinda feeling them out. Then I switched over to that banded stone. WAY smoother than either of them, and pores only visible at 60x magnification. So I picked up my black and translucent and did the same thing. Well, this banded hone felt suspiciously similar to my translucent. Check this out:





Light doesn't penetrate nearly as far as it does the large grey translucent stone, but you can still see it coming through. For comparison, the Soft and Hard Arkansas stones show what we would expect, 0 light transmission:





I think that may actually be a 6" x 2" x 1" translucent stone.

It may well be. I've never seen a translucent Ark so prominently banded before, pretty cool.

Nice rocks Marshal!

Sometimes you get lucky... Looks like you hit the jackpot right there. Nice stones.

Talking about things and their differences I like to think of as debating . It can be educational for me and disastrous. Having to pull out a lot of stones to look at them under the kitchen light brought the number of stones to my wife's attention. Not good ! Now I can only hope she has to debate shoes sometime in the future.

Originally Posted by eKretz

It may well be. I've never seen a translucent Ark so prominently banded before, pretty cool.

I have. Remember that pink trans with swirls the guy sent me to lap at the other place? It looked very similar to that. Nice stones.

Originally Posted by Dcaddo1

I have. Remember that pink trans with swirls the guy sent me to lap at the other place? It looked very similar to that. Nice stones.

This one. It looks a little different than I remembered.

Originally Posted by Dcaddo1

This one. It looks a little different than I remembered.

Oh yeah, forgot about that one. Marshal's is still more defined in its banding though I think. Both very nice stones indeed.