Thread: The tale about "The German Hickory" Hone

Originally Posted by Grazor

Here is an old oil stone that I thought may be petrified wood, look a bit like growth rings. Then again it could be different layers of sediment. As far as petrifying wood in 8 years, not saying it can't be done just highly unlikely as it is a process that takes a long time under certain conditions.

Do you own it ? Would be interesting to see additional pictures...

Originally Posted by doorsch

Do you own it ? Would be interesting to see additional pictures...

Yes, will try get better pics up later.

Interesting stuff. I was always under the impression it took a very long time for wood to become petrified, yet never have looked into that.

Someday, I may take this to a stonecutter and see what happens?



I can almost imagine I see one of these in there?

Originally Posted by sharptonn

Interesting stuff. I was always under the impression it took a very long time for wood to become petrified, yet never have looked into that.

Someday, I may take this to a stonecutter and see what happens?



I can almost imagine I see one of these in there?

Actually i think its not possible to create stone out of wood within 8 years without a modern procedure. Today who knows it might be possible simulating a specific condition and pressure....its even possible to create a Diamond out of Ashes...

The New Hickory is definetely a synthethic Stone, but the older Panama Barber Hones seem to had a natural swirled backing. The instructions told us it is petrified wood

Man, with 100 people at one mill working all day to produce them and possibly other mills, it would seem some should still survive.

IF anyone knows what they have?

Lots of it out there, apparently. I see flooring and furniture made of it. Slabs can be purchased as well.

This is interesting; What is Petrified Wood? How Does it Form?

I think these old articles have to be taken in context. They could say what they wanted. For example I had never heard of the word adamant used in that context. Here is what I found.

nounarchaic
1.
a legendary rock or mineral to which many, often contradictory, properties were attributed, formerly associated with diamond or lodestone.

They could say or write what they wanted with little or any controls.

I can certainly see someone treating hickory in the ground in a way that took 8 years but it certainly isn't petrified in the way we today understand that word.

Thinking in how I would post this today at SRP I envision saying that I am using a pasted piece of hard wood.....

I can't imagine wood petrifying in 8 years, but my college Geology elective, fascinating as it was, only taught me so much-loved that class and the subject in general. I was with my family in the Petrified National Forest in the summer of '11 on one of our big Western National Parks trips. I'll never forget the museum where huge wildly-colored pieces of it were polished to glass-like smoothness. I don't remember the exact geology of how it happens, the minerals involved, etc. I also remember driving all over Utah, which is a geologist's paradise, looking at all the fascinating rocks and wondering how they might work as hones.

Originally Posted by 32t

I think these old articles have to be taken in context. They could say what they wanted. For example I had never heard of the word adamant used in that context. Here is what I found.

nounarchaic
1.
a legendary rock or mineral to which many, often contradictory, properties were attributed, formerly associated with diamond or lodestone.

They could say or write what they wanted with little or any controls.

I can certainly see someone treating hickory in the ground in a way that took 8 years but it certainly isn't petrified in the way we today understand that word.

Thinking in how I would post this today at SRP I envision saying that I am using a pasted piece of hard wood.....

I am sure you probably have heard it used in that context, just didn't realize it. I'm certain almost everyone has heard of or read the term 'adamantine' - guess where it's derived from...

Originally Posted by eKretz

I am sure you probably have heard it used in that context, just didn't realize it. I'm certain almost everyone has heard of or read the term 'adamantine' - guess where it's derived from...

I am very adamant that I have never heard it used in that context!

adjective
1.
refusing to be persuaded or to change one's mind.

I have heard it used that way many times.

This got me thinking that I should pull an old oak fence post from the ground and see how it hones.................