Thread: Messing Around with Moughtons.

Nope, not on ebay. I'd heard about the stones from a bushcraft site, so my BIL and I took a walk up the other day. I've got a few bits which I'm happy to swop, take a look. (The big bench stone I'm keeping, but everything else is available, clockwise from the bench stone, numbered 1 to 6, tealight candle is in there for scale. Stones 1, 4, and 5 are 4 to 5mm thick, the others are nearer 10 - 15mm thick.

You will probably find that the bench hone you have is pretty slow if doing anything at all. Some time ago we did tests of these with Alex and found that the green part does not do much. All the work was done by the red part. Looking forward to hear more about your experience as there are not many of them running arround.

Cheers for the info. I'll pick up redder bits next time, the redder bits are certainly easier to flat off.

That looks more like a coticule with wood like grain compared to other pics of Moughtons I've seen. Very very beuatiful, I bet they're hard to find!

It wasn't too difficult to find them once we found the old quarry, but it took a bit of carrying out, and then turning it from bits of rock to what you see here isn't the work of a moment.

Received a very generous gift from someone today...



Sawed the little nub off the end and made a slurry stone, flattened the bottom, and tidied it up a bit.



It's a very interesting stone the Moughton Whetstone, and I'd echo a lot of what Alex said in the original post...

It's not quick, and even with slurry leans massively toward edge refinement over abrasion, and because of this will probably finish a razor far finer than it's 'grit' size would suggest. I've only used on a couple of knives so far, but I have no doubt I'll be able to put a SR on it to good effect, and that it'll probably be better for razors than it is for knives.

It's certainly quite porous - the idea of soaking the stone is an interesting one, and I can imagine working. Especially because it doesn't slurry easily, which is weird in itself because the stone isn't actually all that hard - it's very easy to saw through and work, but because it doesn't slurry it gives the impression of being quite hard in use. I don't know if you can get softer stones that are relatively non-friable, but this does a very good impression of that.

Not dissimilar to many jnats tbh, and may even prove a reasonable polishing stone with enough mud raised. A very cool stone, that I'm pretty stoked to have .

Very nice stone you got there. You have a great friend in gifting something like that. I hope it is an old collected one as To date, the quarry for the extraction of stone is completely abandoned. Geographically, it is not just located on the territory of the Yorkshire Dales National Park, but is also classified as a so-called "site of special scientific interest". In this regard, any extraction of stone and the collection of its samples from the ground is prohibited by British law.

Would love to find one of these old stones one day, but don't want to get one that was taken illegally either.

Yeah I think it is an older one .

Though to be completely honest if I went there, as I might have done at some point, I would’ve picked up a stone or two. The letter of the UK law for instance prohibits pretty much all picking of wild flowers and foraging on land that doesn’t belong to you. But stuff like that doesn’t really get enforced if not being carried out on a commercial scale, as it almost certainly wouldn’t get a conviction under secondary legislature.