Thread: Charnley forest find

*HIGH 5* nice find. I'm so envious....

Funny how it happens some times eh. What i really want is a new pocket knife though!

Does any one know what these things are worth? I know we don't talk prices on the open forum, so please, some one PM me!

Cheers,
Greg

Originally Posted by gregs656

Funny how it happens some times eh. What i really want is a new pocket knife though!

Does any one know what these things are worth? I know we don't talk prices on the open forum, so please, some one PM me!

Cheers,
Greg

It's worth $2. I'll give you $5 plus the cost of shipping.

A gentleman and a scholar

Nice stone. It's hard for me to tell on either of my monitors, but are those areas of purple and is the overall hue of the stone a grayish?

I've been trying to ID the following stone I picked up a few years back and have had no luck. It's vaguely similar to what yours looks like to me:




Thanks.

Chris L

hmm. I think there's a distinct possibility, how does it hone?

For me, olive green with red inclusions is a big give away for charnley.



This is my other one, you can see in the top left of the stone is a line of red. The green/gray around that is the best likeness to the stone.

Your's looks like something else, kinda, but my two are so different, who knows?

Yeah, I don't think my mystery stone is a CF. Mine is a very fine hard stone that would produce no slurry on its own. It was originally used years ago in an engine shop where it was fixed to a workbench. Mechanics would lap engine valves on it to a mirror polish. I have not used it enough to venture a grit above considering it a very slow high grit polishing stone.

Chris L

Greg, if you can make out anything like Whittle Hill on the quarry stamping I've read in old google books stuff that the whittle hill was THE CF stone to have. Nice rock and I hope it works as good as it looks.

I love stones with labels or at least ink stamps to assure me of their pedigree. I have 2 Y/G labeled Eschers that look slightly different and one with no label that I swear is a Y/G but no label so maybe it is and maybe it ain't.

As my grandma used to say, "Handsome is as handsome does" so no matter what it looks like whether it is a good razor hone is the important thing.

To Chris L. I have to say that your stone to me does not look like any CF I have seen so far. The red part looks particularly different. I would guess more like Jnat.
About whittle Hill stamp. I was guessing same when I saw the stamp. However what is digging in my mind that the rock for hones was quarried there but hones themselves then were made somewhere else therefore the stamp is more than a mystery for me.

Whittle Hill, thanks Jimmy I'd forgotten what the name of it was. Well, I can see it, see what you think. I can see WHITT then a space then HI.