Thread: "Turkey stone" quarry?

Originally Posted by kemerd

Any suggestions on how to lap this


Kemal

I am not speaking from experience, just imagination. Get a respirator and access to a good belt sander. An industrial one such as a machine shop would have. The hone manufacturers such as the American Hone Co. in Iowa used very large lapping plates that looked like a large LP record..... make that giant, not just large. I don't know if a belt sander would work but it probably would.

I used a belt sander on my Turk that I got from Sham. I just trimmed up the sides and chamfered edges the stone was already lapped. Be careful as these are brittle and will tend to shatter or chip. Mine was very large and heavy. I snatched it our from under Randy's watchful eye.

Originally Posted by Stoned

"Naxia stone" (Naxos was a city on the top of Oxa mountain)

Does this mean antything to you?

Originally Posted by ferroburak

Does this mean antything to you?

From Elounda Web:

The name “OXA” comes according to our traditions from corruption of the word “NAXOS” which was the name of the ancient Minoan town “NAXOS” synchronous of the ancient olous whose probably was the acropolis and was inhabited, after the earthquake of 1450 b.c., by the Oloundians because of the catastrophe of ancient olous.
Mythology says that “Naxos ” had been build by “Naxos” the son of Akakalidos, King Minos daughter.

“Naxia lithos” is the name given by the ancient Greek poeter Omiros for the stone (hard white “akoni”) which is excavated by the local people in mountainsides of Oxa and in the surrounding hills of Elounda.

Regards,
Neil

They occasionally appear on ebay: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...m=110539206177

This guy has listed several of them. He claims they are 7-12K.

Being Greek I always wanted a stone or a razor that was made in my home country.

I never knew they excisted until now.

Lol now my AD is kicking in bad!

Originally Posted by Neil Miller

From Elounda Web:

The name “OXA” comes according to our traditions from corruption of the word “NAXOS” which was the name of the ancient Minoan town “NAXOS” synchronous of the ancient olous whose probably was the acropolis and was inhabited, after the earthquake of 1450 b.c., by the Oloundians because of the catastrophe of ancient olous.
Mythology says that “Naxos ” had been build by “Naxos” the son of Akakalidos, King Minos daughter.

“Naxia lithos” is the name given by the ancient Greek poeter Omiros for the stone (hard white “akoni”) which is excavated by the local people in mountainsides of Oxa and in the surrounding hills of Elounda.

Regards,
Neil

Hi Neil,
I guess Naxos is an island in Aegian region. Google earth gives a detaled map of it. In fact I have located stone rocks very similar to hones via google earth pictures!

And there is more to say about it.. I will update after I collect some more data.

From the Elunda website: (Naxos was a city on the top of Oxa mountain).

Originally Posted by ferroburak

Hi Neil,
I guess Naxos is an island in Aegian region. Google earth gives a detaled map of it. In fact I have located stone rocks very similar to hones via google earth pictures!

And there is more to say about it.. I will update after I collect some more data.

Naxos is a ancient Greek city on the Greek island of Crete.

There is also a island called Naxos so I can see the confusion it would cause.

Correct Basil, got this from the Wikipedia site.

Emery is a very hard rock type used to make abrasive powder. It largely consists of the mineral corundum (aluminum oxide).

Crushed or naturally eroded emery (known as black sand) is used as an abrasive — for example, on an emery board, as a traction enhancer in asphalt and tarmac mixtures, or as used in mechanical engineering as emery cloth.

The Greek island of Naxos used to be the main source of this industrially important rock type. It has been mined on the eastern side of Naxos for well over two thousand years until recent times. However, demand for emery has decreased with the development of sintered carbide and oxide materials as abrasives