Thread: Very unusual Vintage Sharpening stone

It could be a odd stone forgotten to time, but based on the way it is shaped from extraction it is the same way the Charnley Forest stones were moulded by a driver blade. I don't see this with the Turkish stones. Slurry is white like a Charnley Forest stone, but feels finer. I don't really see green so much as a turquoise, and brown, grey and white.

Anyone else see any old vintage sharpening stones moulded this way besides the CF?

To tell you the truth it looks like a piece of petrified wood.

I was not gonna say it, but yeah. Seems hones were definitely made from it.
I suppose the level/content of the petrification would determine it's value.
That's a joke, there.

So take a razzer to 8k and shave. Hit it 10 on the wood and see what happens!!

It's a pretty thing!
Someone thought enough of it to build a crazy box for it.
Neat.

So it is a phenomenal stone as good as my best Charnley Forest stone and similar in feel very sharp and extremely smooth. I think if it was petrified wood the pattern would show on side and bottom too.

To me, it does.
Difference is, rough-cut and not nearly as nice as the top.
I reckon Charnley Forest stones may have been a tree once upon a time.
Or not?

It is what you want it to be.
Test it or forget it?