Thread: Welsh hone stones

I also would love a chance at a rough uncut chunk of welsh rock that would once cut be a suitable size for a razor hone. I have access to a diamond wetsaw so I would finish cut it/them myself.

Please keep us in mind. Thank you for showing these.

Boy, wait until Howard Schechter sees that rippled stone. He'll want one for his collection to be sure. Who wouldn't?

Chris L

Originally Posted by littlesilverbladefromwale

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You are correct though. The Welsh inhabbited the UK before the Germans.sorry I mean the English.
KIng Arthur probaly honed his edges on some nice local Welsh rock.
M

Ooh - controversial! Some modern scholars believe that both Wales and England were originally colonised by the Iberians (Spain/Portugal/France)! My father-in-law is Welsh and found no difficulty conversing with the inhabitants of Brittany when he went to France.

As for Arthur - a romano-english myth!

Regards,
Neil

Dont worry guys, when I can get some more pieces I'll spread them around for the cost of the postage. Cant promise theyll all look like that though, its surprising how much variety of hardness and texture there is even amongst the few pieces I collected and theres no telling how the grain will look unil theyre lapped.

That piece seems like a useful polisher to me, though as you say Oldengaerde it doesnt really matter, just nice to have.

I would love one of those beauties! Would you kindly add me to your list please?

Originally Posted by Neil Miller

Ooh - controversial! Some modern scholars believe that both Wales and England were originally colonised by the Iberians (Spain/Portugal/France)! My father-in-law is Welsh and found no difficulty conversing with the inhabitants of Brittany when he went to France.

As for Arthur - a romano-english myth!

Regards,
Neil

They recently tested Welsh and English DNA
They discovered that most of the UK apart from the far corners of Britian seems to have been ethnicaly cleansed some point in the past, as the DNA from the samples taken in England differed from this Islands long standing residents - Brythonic Celts. Welsh and breton are Brythonic languages, that 's the reason they say a Welsh speaker can get by quite well in that part of France. And we let them win a game of Rugby now and again too, just in recognition for being related
The Greeks used to send survey ships around the coast of Britain in about 400BC and knew about us!

Sorry to go

Originally Posted by littlesilverbladefromwale

They recently tested Welsh and English DNA
They discovered that most of the UK apart from the far corners of Britian seems to have been ethnicaly cleansed some point in the past, as the DNA from the samples taken in England differed from this Islands long standing residents - Brythonic Celts. Welsh and breton are Brythonic languages, that 's the reason they say a Welsh speaker can get by quite well in that part of France. And we let them win a game of Rugby now and again too, just in recognition for being related
The Greeks used to send survey ships around the coast of Britain in about 400BC and knew about us!

Sorry to go

Very interesting! But in the Steve Martin school of Applied Idiocy we are taught to question all things - for example, it could be possible that the true welshmen were inexplicably lured into the sea, possibly in a laverbread-picking tragedy of epic proportions, and the country was then recolonised by the former inhabitants of Atlantis, who thought they had discovered America? This would go a long way to explaining the DNA mismatch. Atlanteans, of course, could master any language - that is clear. What is not so clear is why they chose one which leads to the extravagance of double-sized motorway signs...

You know I'm only kidding!

Regards,
Neil

Interesting.
After Englands performance against Ireland, I wonder what the relation is?
It can't be very close as they only let them win by a point.
Acording to one site, the Brythonic celts found in France and near Galicia in Spain were people who fleed the UK during the arrival of an Invader!?
So, did they come here or we go there?
M

Originally Posted by Jason01

Dont worry guys, when I can get some more pieces I'll spread them around for the cost of the postage.

Yes please!

Fine-looking stones and a great story! Wales is one of those places I hope to get to before I die. (Failing that, maybe afterwards; it seems like a corner of the world notably hospitable to wandering spirits.)

If you're actually putting together a list, I'd also like to be on it. But this shouldn't turn into some big obligation on your part. I'm also subscribing to this thread, just in case.

Thanks for sharing the pictures and information here!

Rich

That is a lovely hone! Really nice pattern on it. Would love to get my hands on one. Thin kI need to take a trip down to my Welsh Grandmother-in-law...........


Steven