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    Default Pike's Lisbon Chocolate Hone

    Beeing in the research on some connections between Escher & Pike i found some Literature and Old Pricelists dealing with the Pikes Chocolate Hone. It seems to be a fairly fine stone from the descriptions so i got more interested in it....i only found one reference within SRP here made by A_S. As the thread is already closed i will add the original quote zu the choclate stone here:

    "Pike, Grafton County
    Owned by the Pike Manufacturing Co. The stones were worked at least as far back as 1825. Fine-grained, highly siliceous mica schists, reportedly the finest of this type found in the world"

    Source: http://straightrazorpalace.com/hones...-origin-3.html

    As said i did further more research on this topic and found some more sources i wanted to share here.

    "At Lisbon, Grafton County, N.H. there occurs a fine grained quartz, mica schist of blueish choclate color, which furnishes a stone known as the chocolate whetstone. Its a medium hard stone and is especially adapted for leather and skinning knives, and it is also used extensively for sharpening cloth cutters tools, kitchen and carving knives" Source: Mines and Quarries 1902 on Google Books

    "The Chocolate Stone, quarried at Lisbon is a finer grained then the Indian Pond stone and is made into oilstones, knifestones or fine scythe stones. From 10-15 tons are produced annually. The chocolate stone is not finished by Pike Manufacturing Company, but the manufacture is carried on by contract with the Lisbon parties."
    Source: Stone Vol. 5 on Google Books

    So i found this stone quite interesting, it sound more like a coarse to medium stone, even if some descriptions "fine grained" did made me think it might be a finer one....

    Anyboday owned or owns a stone of this type ?
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