Thread: Purple slate

Looks like a nice ol' chunk of slate.

I have a purple Welsh state from AJ that Doughboy mentions. I have polished mine up to 3k wet n dry and use Smiths honing solution. Works quite nicely.

Originally Posted by YoWan

Faudrait que je finisse le surfaçage de la mienne ...

Faineant,tu la pas encore fait!?

Sur une seule face. Je vais passer la faire mettre en forme chez un marbrier funéraire.

For our SRP friends, the french name of this stone is "pélite rouge"

Pelite rouge.....!? Realy,never heard,thanks for the information.

The Yellow Lake (LLyn Melynllyn) stone comes from Wales, not France. However, there is a stone from France called Pierre Du Loraine Rouge. That could well be what this stone is.

Originally Posted by Brontosaurus

Thanks. With a name like that, I would think it was more the forehead of France! But from the Wikipedia picture, it doesn't look like such a bad place (apart from maybe tourist season). Reason I asked is because I spend a lot of time in the Vosges mountains, where my wife is from. There I've found purple slate that holds promise, but which is ultimately too brittle.

Bonne continuation en tout cas...

yes Menton is a pretty nice small town called " Jurassic Park" ....it's the last destination to the sun for our elders.Les Vosges even a nice country with stones too.

Originally Posted by RayClem

The Yellow Lake (LLyn Melynllyn) stone comes from Wales, not France. However, there is a stone from France called Pierre Du Loraine Rouge. That could well be what this stone is.

thanks for this information.

https://www.universalis.fr/encyclopedie/pelites/

in this article the size of grits is average less than 50 microns/ μm and some times betwen 50 and 2 μm

Originally Posted by RayClem

The Yellow Lake (LLyn Melynllyn) stone comes from Wales, not France. However, there is a stone from France called Pierre Du Loraine Rouge. That could well be what this stone is.

Are you talking about the so-called Lorraine stone? If so, it comes from the Ardennes region, which is a far cry from any Mediterranean Jurassic Park. The Lorraine stone gives a redder slurry than a BBW, and sort of acts like one.

Originally Posted by Gasman

Thats a nice big chunk of rock. I should see if slate is something found around my area.

Now that i think about it. Being at one of the highest areas in the USA, there probably is no slate. Who knows.

Head over to Marble in Gunnison County and you can find Black Slate. There was an old quarry there dating back to the early 20th century.

Originally Posted by Brontosaurus

Are you talking about the so-called Lorraine stone? If so, it comes from the Ardennes region, which is a far cry from any Mediterranean Jurassic Park. The Lorraine stone gives a redder slurry than a BBW, and sort of acts like one.

There is a Belgian stone called La Lorraine. I understand that it comes from the same are as Coticules and BBW, but has a reddish color and has properties somewhere between the two more popular Belgian hones.

I believe the Pierre du Lorraine is a different stone coming from France. Sometimes the stone is called Rouge de Salm. Compare the stone pictured in this post to the one in this video.