Thread: New stone lot

So as some of you may know I injured my finger. It's kind of a challenge posting so please bear with me.
One of the biggest bummers is that i just bought several new stone, most of them in a lot but some separate and some lapping film but now I am finding it very hard to play with them. I have some time to kill so i'd like to spend it finishing some projects and figuring ouy my new hones and how they fit into a progression but......ya know.
Anyhoo, so I got this trans slip stone which is a Pike size 5



It doesn't appear to have ever been used. You can see where the label was. Can't really find much on this particular stone but it looks good.
Also got some loose stones in the lot with a mottled pink Buck Washita and what looks like a NOS Buck set both in plastic lidded boxes. I haven't even really looked at the set yet but I'm excited about the Washita. Here are the loose stones after a Simple Green soak then what scrubbing I could do and a clear water soak




I think the colorful stripy one is maybe a washita also. The others I'm not sure. The one whiter one looks like it has a vein on the side of a mottled pink like the Buck Washita so maybe it's one also. Notice the notch in the edge of the speckled gray one. The one I'm really intrigued by though is this little sparkly black one.



Wet it has a navy or indigo bluish tint. Dry it appears black or sort of dark slate gray. It seems fairly smooth and hard but, again, I haven't had a chance to really play with it or really any of them.
Any ideas about what they are would be welcome.

Anyone know what the slot in the one speckled gray stone is all about?

Also here is the Buck set. Clearly NOS. Bottle is completely full. Stones show no signs of use.





So according to the description card the large stone is a Washita and the small white one is clearly a little translucent. Although there are some inclusions in the Washita it still looks promising.

Looks like you've bagged yourself some right perdy rocks Paul.

I know it's exciting and they need to be played with but they wont expire so think about your hand first. It's probably not worth causing more damage for the sake of a few weeks.

But then what do I know, my Had is still quite new

Originally Posted by STF

Looks like you've bagged yourself some right perdy rocks Paul.

I know it's exciting and they need to be played with but they wont expire so think about your hand first. It's probably not worth causing more damage for the sake of a few weeks.

But then what do I know, my Had is still quite new

It's a deep and never ending rabbit hole. I've got more of them than I can even use, and still have the desire to add more. It's difficult to resist. The thing that stops me is for 2 years now I've used one razor maintained with a $20 Swaty barber hone I picked up on Ebay. Until last night when I broke out the Welsh slates, all the rest of my hones were just gathering dust.

Originally Posted by PaulFLUS

Anyone know what the slot in the one speckled gray stone is all about?

Also here is the Buck set. Clearly NOS. Bottle is completely full. Stones show no signs of use.
So according to the description card the large stone is a Washita and the small white one is clearly a little translucent. Although there are some inclusions in the Washita it still looks promising.

Nice find!
The slot, I believe, is a hook or point sharpener.
I bought the same buck set back in the early 70s. Unfortunately long gone.
This guide was bought at the same time.