Thread: My mysteries

After some time and trying to find more about some of my stones and not beig able to get any decent means of magnification and digital picture taking I have decided to ask here. Recent post here http://straightrazorpalace.com/hones...ien-hones.html
and visit from my friend brought up question about few hones.
The firs one I thought was Natural combo Coti/BBV.
Sze 8"x2"x7/8". Quite hard very fine. White thin slurry on the white/yellow/light green ish side. There are hair lines across the surface adne visible llayers on the sides as well as top.
Very light thin pink slurry on the grey/ purple ish side. On this side are not as wisible speckels as on my other BBVs. Cratches on the light side seems to be somehow finer than on my other Coti.

Here is another one.
I asquired this one recently. It was previously used with oil it is fine stone but not as fine as the previous one. It is soft ish stone which gives a slurry of same colour as the stone. Sze is about 6.5" longest, 1 6/8" widest and 1" thickest. It has lines length wise across the top surface (like it was a side rather then top)
Sorry for pics I am useless with a camera.

1st one is a coticule second one you need to send to me i let you know.
I have no idea. test it please see how it does act.
so money nice hones have had used we cannot find their names or origin.

Nice rocks. No idea if this is any relation but here is my pink coticule with a gray reverse layer and in this post here you can see Bart's pink coticule. IIRC Bart's was a fast cutter and mine is too. The gray reverse side on mine is hard and slow.

Both very pretty stones.
Where did you get the second stone...what country? In the U.S., we have a red minnesota pipestone, that if a fairly high grit...but probably not finishing quality.

Mac

Originally Posted by McWolf1969

Both very pretty stones.
Where did you get the second stone...what country? In the U.S., we have a red minnesota pipestone, that if a fairly high grit...but probably not finishing quality.

Mac

Hi Mac,

Do you have a link to any reference that states that the Red Pipestone was used for sharpening? It's certainly a very beautiful stone, and seems to be available in large slabs that would work very well as hones, but I'm just curious if it has a history of use as a sharpening stone.

Kindest regards,
Alex

I was lucky and got it from uk ebay.

Any chance the second one is an attractively coloured Coticule bout? I have a couple of coticules that were seemingly used as oilstones by their previous owners.
Other guesses concerning the identity of number 2 based strictly on it's colour would be: Red Bay Oilstone (although the one I have seen has figuring unlike this stone). Red Sandstone from the Ludlow Quarry in Shropshire, a Canada Red End retailed by the Read Stone Company, New Brunswick (although reading around the subject, the stone may be different in colour) or a red argillite from the vicinity of the Tobique River in New Brunswick, (although production was limited these were very fines stones which were held in high regard).

Regards,
Alex