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Hi guys,
found a mountain near my home all made of this stone, it's purple slate it's possible to fill a truck per day with it,and it's work very well for SR or knives.
https://zupimages.net/up/18/07/s833.jpg
https://zupimages.net/up/18/07/31al.jpg
live a few kilometers from Italy.
I pick rocks and shape hones from around where I live too. It is a lot of fun.
Looks nice. Where are you located in France?
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.
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Originally Posted by Brontosaurus
Menton in the ###**** of France!;) and you are welcommer for a stone picking up party ! come with your truck!
Looks like the Welsh Slate 'Yellow Lake' stone sold by a well known seller on eBay, I think he goes by AJ? I sometimes you the Welsh Slate 'Dragon's Tongue' stone then the Yellow Lake instead of the Coticule with great results. Fine finishing stone, easy slurry, I use mine a lot.
If you may have the resources to cut and lap those stones you could sell them, you may have a gold mine there..................
Nice find. I use local slates found in Vermont, New York and New Hampshire. They make great finishers and touch up stones
Yes,but i m too lazy!Quote:
Originally Posted by DoughBoy68
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by paloma
Bonne continuation en tout cas...
Faudrait que je finisse le surfaçage de la mienne ...
Looks like a nice ol' chunk of slate. :tu
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.
Faineant,tu la pas encore fait!?:rock:Quote:
Originally Posted by YoWan
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.
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by Brontosaurus
thanks for this information.Quote:
Originally Posted by RayClem
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
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by RayClem
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by Gasman
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by Brontosaurus
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.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CPxcoza4IU
We're off-topic here, but my understanding is that a rouge de Salm is pretty much the same thing, from the Ardennes region. Scroll down toward the bottom of the link below to see other Salm-style honing products...Quote:
Originally Posted by RayClem
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vielsalm
It's exactly the same of mine except one thing, the name!the same color the same aspect same look,and the same slury.
No wonder that La Lorraine is the same as La rouge de Salm.
At the geographical point of view, La Lorraine was a former french province situated north-east of France and extending in south of what is now Belgium. It is just on the foot of the Ardenne where you find Vielsalm and the river Salm.
NB Ardenne is a geological region, The Ardennes is a french department (administrative division, like a county)
you cause very well in English!:)
Oeuf corse maille dire, aie learned huit mystère de Funès.Quote:
Originally Posted by paloma
Thanks for the clarification as to Ardenne/Ardennes. I had that figured out once, but it can be about as confusing as a Lorraine stone that's not from la Lorraine (now "Grand Est"). Way, toning leash 'ey pall mall duh too.Quote:
Originally Posted by YoWan