Thread: Is this a Charnley Forest?

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ARE YOU SITTING ON CHARNLEY FOREST FACTORY?
HOW MANY YOU HAVE NOW?
sorry about capitals didn't relize .
Congratulations great collection

Hahaha! I'd wish!

It's just that prior to visiting these bearings the thought never occurred to me that these old grimed hones were fit for razors too. Now that I'm enlightened I finally gave them due respect, cleaning and lapping them. And now that I've used them: bugging each acquintance and checking out every place I can remember where and with whom I think I saw them...

Here some pictures of the stone from the first post loose from its setting.
Shape, colour and texture (the latter two admittedly not very clearly visible in the pictures) of the sides and back corroberate the CF-classification.

The glue used is a composite based on beeswax. It still smells remarkably strong of it! I couldn't say what more it contains, skin, collagen, casein - does any of you know what was generally used? The darker shiny spot are resin-like, but I think they're just dried and hardened residues of oil that leaked in.

What's interesting too is the large chip: there's glue between it and the rest of the stone. That means it broke before the stone was set and probably after the box hollow was carved. This was made to measure, following the shape and varying thickness of the stone. I think the craftsman just roughly refitted the fragment with a dollop of glue without caring if it was exactly in place, just putting it back to fill the space.