Thread: The tale about "The German Hickory" Hone

Originally Posted by Vasilis

Sebastian, do you happen to have any available samples for testing? I'm not referring to the honing type of testing, the more invasive kind. It could help a lot.

The above is one theory. One other is, the silicon oxide that contains the wood, that very small quantity, it might even be a single, few molecules crystal here and there, starts working as a catalyst for the formation of silicon salt based dendritic structures within wood, and as cellulose of the wood gets damaged, more space opens for the increase in mass of these dendrites.
Something I overlooked is, I assume that the wood itself hardens as well, aside from its cutting particles and their formations. Having a sample, even a cubic centimeter would help.

I can try to make what I imagine that material to be, or at least try to make something that seems similar, everybody can. I'll give it a try, and if it works, like the previous time with the stone, I'll contact you to test a sample. I have about 500 walnut trees and plenty of wood. It's same family with hickory but would it be good enough?

Hey Vasilis, good approach....i dont know if this was ever a real good working thing. Actually all is too foggy and unclear for me and the literature sources are rare...but they do exist. It seems to be clear that petrified wood in the past was used for honing....

For what specific applications the petriefied wood was used is not written down in the literature as far i did the research.

Also if this approach was real, there is no source mentioning the procedure itself which was described in that article i introduced.

So it should just be a fun thing to try out youre approach and see what happens ;-)

Until the years go by and until youre ready with it, i started buying four samples of petrified wood. One looks actually like Chert (probably geologically talking this might be right), the second looks like burned wood, probably stored in swamp conditions, the third and fourth are petrified wood dics which will be cut in two rectangular stones....they were really cheap, 5usd each. But they are hard as hell to lap...this will take hours of lapping *help*

Sample 1&2: