Thread: Flee market stone 2

Stone #2 from the Box-O-Stuff.

It measures 2"X8"x 5/8 what do you think this one is?



Thanks
John

Here it is lapped and a shot of the slurry it produces.




Any Ideas???

I don't think I am amy help because I only recognize the stones i have.

Sometimes the camera doesn't show the true colour of the stones, what colour is it in reality because it seems to be 3 different colours in the photos and is it a natural?

The first photos are the true color completely dry before lapping.

The 2nd picture of the 2nd post was the true color dry after lapping and it is still that color now the edges and the side I didn't lap look like the photos in the first post.

the other is wet.

Yes it is a natural stone.

It could be a thuri. A light green if the color i see is right.

It does look like a Thurigan. Lt green or blue, perhaps, but I'm not seeing the typical saw marks, seen on Thurigan, and Escher's. Still some kind of slate. Put a razor to it, see what its capable of. May make a great mid range hone, in a natural progression, or a possible finisher.

At worst, it sits on a kitchen window sill, keeping maintenance on your kitchen knives.

I will take a photo tomorrow in the sunlight (Natural Light) Should show the true color much better.

I know as much about old fancy stones as I know about nuclear physics it may be something exotic, but that one looks like natural Arkansas stones I have seen over the years, having been raised on the MO AR border. White gray, black, marbled, tan, hard soft in-between.

That stone was used so much, not sure where any saw marks would be found. From my reading on stones, the old timers used what ever was local. Cabinet maker, furniture, or maybe stock makers likely looked for specialty stones, but the average worker likely used the closest source.

In my stock work, I am always looking for a magic stone, but have yet to find one. An inletting chisel is like a razor, its impossible to be too sharp, for cutting cross grain, hard rock maple and other dense grain stock wood.

Thats neat you flattened that one, should be good for a couple more generations, if razors are its main tool being sharpened.

Looks like a thuri to me too. No saw marks but it has those lateral striated scatches and almost chalky looking slurry.

It definitely looks more green in the sunlight.