Thread: How About Those Garnets

Originally Posted by thebigspendur

Well, I guess you could but those particular ones are pretty ugly. There are others which are just nicer colors and that are translucent to transparent.

I dont know...with the right type of wood scales, the imperfect garnets would compliment...IMO.
Thanks for showing those...too cool!

Mac

Originally Posted by DwarvenChef

While taking the farey down from Haines Junction, AK. we stopped at one of the islands in the route. Picked up a few rocks with garnets in them. Would be cool to know if the matrix was serviceable as a hone No clue...

Probably not. The honing stones we use are really specialized types of stones and you need not only the right type of garnets but the right size and concentration and the correct matrix. If the garnets are too large they won't work, if they are too hard they won't work and if the matrix is too friable it will just all come apart and ruin your edge and if its too hard it won't release enough garnets as you hone. You can break that stone off at the cornet and inspect a fresh area under mag and see if there are garnets inside. Sometimes you have unxtlized stuff in the matrix.

This is a HARD Dense stone, I'll see what I can under the loop, may not be strong enough though...

That's the kind of garnet crystal I use when doing demos of coticules. Got mine in a rock shop in Arizona and it fills my hand. It's a rhombic dodecahedron all right! The CAD-style pic on a few websites has it being an orthorhombic dodecahron and I haven't seen one of those in the flesh.

Originally Posted by Howard

That's the kind of garnet crystal I use when doing demos of coticules. Got mine in a rock shop in Arizona and it fills my hand. It's a rhombic dodecahedron all right! The CAD-style pic on a few websites has it being an orthorhombic dodecahron and I haven't seen one of those in the flesh.

I have a small demantoid garnet and it has a really weird xtl habit. I still haven't figured it all out yet.