Thread: DEEP ROCK?

It must be nice to have friends that feed your HAD! Nice hone also. You'll have to pass it around so we can all try it! Just kidding. Let us know how it differs from the others you have.

Wow Sham, you did it again. Congrats!

This really is the exact same logo as that on Jimmy's boxed one isn't it:


I wonder if the Salamander is a play on the Salm region.

Anyway, the Old Rock Coticules were regarded top quality. See this list from a Pike catalogue (the caption gives you an idea of the time period: WWI), and note that Old Rock was not just a layer or quarry name, but listed as grade:

Thanks for posting this. I can't make out the first grade. Do you know what it says?

Chris L

Originally Posted by hi_bud_gl

i am sure you have couple of them. Can you please post the what is written on the stone please Jimmy.
i cannot make out all words.
i know it says deep layers ,the best.veins runs cross.so on

Sham, here are pix of the label on my Salam coticule. Unfortunately my label is also badly worn and I can read very little of it.

Bart could most likely easily tell you guys all about those coticules. Then you can tell what layer they're from and what their cutting potential is with slurry and then with water. He has a whole system for coticule layers on his website.

Originally Posted by ChrisL

Thanks for posting this. I can't make out the first grade. Do you know what it says?

Chris L

Chris, it looks like it says "common".

Originally Posted by Disburden

Bart could most likely easily tell you guys all about those coticules. Then you can tell what layer they're from and what their cutting potential is with slurry and then with water. He has a whole system for coticule layers on his website.

On his website I asked Bart about identifying coticule layers. He explained that the layers within the mines owned by Ardennes have their various named layers but that older mines, long since closed, owned by other companies within the area, had their own names for layers and there is no way of identifying coticules harvested from them.

Originally Posted by ChrisL

Thanks for posting this. I can't make out the first grade. Do you know what it says?

Chris L

Sure, sorry to have kept you waiting. To the left it reads:

GRADE

Common
Quarter Fine
Half Fine
No. 1 Fine
Superfine
Extra Choice
Extra Choice Sel.
Barbers' Special
Old Hickory
Old Rock

More grist for the mill, here are a couple of labeled coticules from the old days. The Deep Rock label is worn and difficult to read. As I have been told in those years they didn't consider the bbw a viable hone hence the label was glued onto it.

Originally Posted by Disburden

Wow this looks like a very good stone. You'll have to teach me the ways of collecting these nice rare hones!

That's alright, I am Sham's personal assistant, perhaps we can schedule an appointment.