Tonight I was minding my own business, walking to buy some rice for dinner when I walked past the pork seller on the side of the road. Something caught my attention, he was honing a knife on what looked like a lump of wood. As I got a little closer I thought maybe its a house brick. This made me think Thais don't really know what sharp is.

As I got even closer I saw that his hone had a wood grain running through it and it was at this point that my heart started to beat a little faster. On my way back I stopped to ask him about his hone and get a closer look. The colour of the stone was a creamy colour with a darker creamy coloured wood grain running through it. The rough size of this stone was about 4inches by 4inches by about 8 inches.

I asked him where he bought it from and he pointed down the street and gave me some directions which I didn't understand.

So tomorrow I am going on a stone hunt. I'm going to talk to this guy again and get him to write down the location of the shop that sells these hones and the hunt will be on.