Thread: "yellowstone" collection

Beautiful collection! You can never have too many stones

Thank you evnpar and basil! basil we are definately of the same mind! Lol! I love finding old stones and figuering them out. Trying to squeeze all that I can from them. Then when you find a jewel treasure it by putting it to use.

toro - what in the heck is that massive rock in the far upper right?! is it as large as it looks? makes all the others look like tiny.

You know whats funny, that stones weighs a little over 10 pounds. I had to purchase it because my original stone is stuck in Mexico because it weighs in at 57 pounds and is crazy expensive to ship and I can't bring it on the airplane because it is over the 50 pound weight limit. I started a thread about it but have not been able to get it in my pessession. So I purchased the 10 pounder just so I could test it out.

It is from Oaxaca, Mexico but the guy I purchased it from does not ship to the U.S. only the domestic market.
It is a nice looking and performing stone. To be honest it is like a soft grade Washita, in that it can be like a 1kish(150 W/D SIC) on the bottom end and if you finish it on a 600 W/D SIC sand paper it can go to 4kish. For its size and price it is hard to beat. I paid 20 dollars for that one, no joke.

Now what about few close pics of the left upper corner Hatanaka Looks pretty nice

Originally Posted by Toroblanco

You know whats funny, that stones weighs a little over 10 pounds. I had to purchase it because my original stone is stuck in Mexico because it weighs in at 57 pounds and is crazy expensive to ship and I can't bring it on the airplane because it is over the 50 pound weight limit. I started a thread about it but have not been able to get it in my pessession. So I purchased the 10 pounder just so I could test it out.

It is from Oaxaca, Mexico but the guy I purchased it from does not ship to the U.S. only the domestic market.
It is a nice looking and performing stone. To be honest it is like a soft grade Washita, in that it can be like a 1kish(150 W/D SIC) on the bottom end and if you finish it on a 600 W/D SIC sand paper it can go to 4kish. For its size and price it is hard to beat. I paid 20 dollars for that one, no joke.

How much would it be to cut off 8 pounds?

It would still last a long time!

Yes it would last a very long time. I for got to add that this stone does not auto-slurry as it is close to a soft ark in hardness, maybe a tiny less but close. Very dense too!
With a 1200 diamond card it makes a fast cutting even, not gritty but grit rich as the slurry darkens quickly. The thing is you need a fine diamond card or plate to make fine slurry. Still the edge is 6kish which makes it great for knives or mid level razor stone. On the very fast cutting side.
I even tested sweedish steel and it ate it up too. Grit rich stone.

It is a PIA to lap as it comes hand quarried and chiseled flat. I picked the flattest side and went at it for days. Lol! worth it in the end as it has come out to be a very good, fast mid-range stone.

Here is a pic of my three Hatatoshi's could only save the stamps on one but I like to use my stones, so stamps got lapped away. Middle one is my pride and joy, it made it to Fikira's website as a example of a rare stamp and Alex G. was kind enough to Lap it for me and test and grade it. Super fast,superfine, 5++ kiita I swear my head was in the moon for a while with satisfaction and gratitude.

Haha yes I agree. I used to have about 10 cotis. Got rid of all but three that I liked the most.

Originally Posted by Toroblanco

Thank you evnpar and basil! basil we are definately of the same mind! Lol! I love finding old stones and figuering them out. Trying to squeeze all that I can from them. Then when you find a jewel treasure it by putting it to use.