Thread: A Scotch Hone Quiz!

Originally Posted by adrspach

Not everything has so called science behind it. Sometimes it is about experience of generations of users simmilar to Pierre La Lune.
To answer the question - The most of the material was crushed as filler for paints and pastes.

A sad answer. And, if I remember correctly, most of the material of the Charnley forest (or Llyn Idwal was it?) was crushed and used as a bed beneath the roads to stabilize their structure, most of the material of the huge Japanese layer of hone material beneath Kyoto was used and depleted for the military industry in the Russo-Japanese wars and world wars, otherwise today these stones would still be extracted from most of the famous mines, and would continue for the next decades... As for my local Cretan stone, a lot if not most of the material gets crushed for making chinaware, there is a high demand for its powder. A small part of it goes in the watch industry for the "quartz". We don't appreciate what we have until it's gone.

For the science part, anything has everything to do with science; we might not have discovered it yet, but it's there. For our case with stones and steel, we know all we need behind it's mechanism, so, this experience of generations is either based on some unique characteristic of the stone, or is just a rumor repeated for generations without any meaning behind it.