Thread: a junk store RED

so I run in the local flea market to get a couple more traps - a whistle pig is destroying the garden - anyway, like always I ask the lady if any razors or hones came in and she shows me this. At first I think its a cut piece of floor tile. Its 5 x 2 x 1/2 and a little off square. The density is unusually low, I've cut red floor tiles and this thing is way lighter...noticeably lighter than a swaty. fool that I am I carried it home for $6 thinking 'that's not a hone...but wait maybe it is'...

It has circle saw marks on the side and straight on one end. under my handheld 60-120X I see what looks like quartz crystals in a CNAT or welsh slate. These pics from the usb scope don't show it that well. Its not very soft, had to hit it on the DMT325 pretty hard to build a red slurry. It almost looks like pipestone-catlinite, I'll have to measure the density after a while.