Thread: Dans Primitive Cut Arkansas 14"x4"

Instead of "bunching up" a towel, have you considered the English treatment for irregular stones? They set the stone in plaster of Paris.

Get a suitable box, or make one, then pour in the moulding material, set the stone "just right" and leave the plaster to set. The Charnley Forest stones were set in permanently, but you could have a layer of thin plastic film over the plaster so that it sets to the perfect shape of your rock, allowing you to remove it easily.

For such a superb rock, an ebony box would be just the thing, with French polish finish - either drilled out of whole wood, or grooved with end stops like Norton boxes. A sterling silver lid would be nice too! Then make a nice label, with locality and provenance information. Dan's quarries are near Hotsprings, Arkansas. I like their novaculite best of all the sharpening stones.

... and use light mineral oil on that surface. Just wipe it clean after use, then add a few more drops to clean it more. I use a micro-fiber cloth wrapped around a magnet. The magnet pulls up any swarf and the cloth removes it in the oil without leaving any lint on the surface. My translucent stones always look spotless.