Thread: WHAT IS IT?

Originally Posted by nun2sharp

Like Ron, I have to ask, where do you find these?

We could water board him 100 times and he still wouldn't tell.

If it is more like glass/quartz then I agree it might be an Arkansas stone. You are in the best position to compare it to a CF.
Was the seller in the USA?

Sham is probably at work:-)

sorry guys just got home.
Ron talks tough English it is hard for me to understand what he means sometimes .
I got it from eBay and seller was in USA.
Randy this stone does great final touch. Does Arkansas stones do great final edge too? i don't know how Arkansas acts..
This is similar to CF but i am getting toward to Arkansas too it is not charnley ether.

It's very pretty.

Enjoy using her, what ever she is!

Originally Posted by hi_bud_gl

Ron talks tough English it is hard for me to understand what he means sometimes .

I'll try to be more gentle in the future, right after Jimmy finishes the waterboarding!

Sham, an Arkansas is a very good finisher if your blade is prepared right and if you're patient enough, cause its hard and slow.
The crack line in the third picture and the fact that you can almost look into the stone looks very quartzish, so I'm almost sure.
Just haven't seen one in such a beautiful color yet.

Maybe it's from M'Cauley's Quarry, near Chapel Hill, NC. The stone is described as being a soft, olive-green in colour, looks like horn and is transparent on the edges.

Kindest regards,
Alex

Could be Alex. This describes the stones as also having a cloudy appearence. Here is part of the article.

"The most valuable bed that I have met with," he said, "is about seven miles west of Chapel-Hill. It is known by the name of M'Cauley's quarry. It has been opened on the summit of a hill, which forms one of three parallel ranges extending from north east to south west." This is exactly where we had been 160 years later. The overgrown ridge road passing by it was apparently well traveled then because he went on to say that "although many thousand hones have been taken from this spot by travelers and others, yet as the quarry has not been wrought for the market, the excavations have been carried to very little depth."
Olmstead found great variations in quality among stones obtained from the same spot, describing the best as having an olive green color and transparent edges. The best were apparently very good, as he goes on to say. "Our carpenters lay aside, for them, the best Turkey hones of the market.... Some of the specimens, when polished, present a clouded or chequered surface, with a high lustre, and possess no small degree of beauty.

Originally Posted by A_S

Maybe it's from M'Cauley's Quarry, near Chapel Hill, NC. The stone is described as being a soft, olive-green in colour, looks like horn and is transparent on the edges.

Kindest regards,
Alex

this is getting interesting. i will post a new picture and after lapping .you will see it how dmt scratches it. this is very big stone 11 inch long and 1.5 wide.
Let's see may be you guys right this is chaperl hill?