Thread: charnley forest

Originally Posted by Neil Miller

Jimmy - Ian's thuringian is on the right in the upright pics and underneath in the horizontal pics, right?

Still doesn't look like a CF to me. Have you honed a razor on both stones? Does the one you think is a CF get a better edge than the known thuringian?

If you haven't done so already, lap the thuringian a bit - does it appear to be softer than the other stone and easier to lap?

Regards,
Neil

thats correct mate it does look alot greener thought than the thurry

Like Piet said and I stated earlier; All CFs have a degree of translucency to them and this is opaque.

Just because it is green does not make it a CF. I have a couple of unknown green stones which are definitely not CFs. Chances are you have a species of slate.

For some reasons I can not open all the pictures but from what I have seen I can say.
The lighter coloured stone could be CF. If you look near the chip near to one of the narrow side there is small crack line which to me shows so called translucency. The same think in my book shows that it is not a slate.
In past I had CFs which would not improve edge from my Thurri.
The best thing would be to compare face to face with others. One of such occasions could be London Razorcon in November. There should be enough CFs and philistines to discuss and compare it with.

+1 to what adrspach said. It is very hard to judge the translucency, especially given that the hone has been lapped to 325 and you can still see some of the residue trapped in the little nicks and crevices - that tends to give most hones a matt appearance. Flooding it with water and taking another pic would help (being careful to avoid reflections) - making a tent out of white sheet would cut out reflections and mute the sunlight (if we get anymore sun!) or taking the pics on an overcast but bright day. Exposure and colour temperature would have to be pretty spot on though.

I have also had largely featureless drab green CFs which didn't show much translucency, but the glassy nature could be seen where they had fractured and split shards off.

The Idwall stones are drab green and subtly speckled, but no red or black spots, just darker blue/green ones, and the edge isn't really much of an improvement over a very good thuringian - perhaps keener, but not as smooth.

It's a pity the damn thing can't talk...!

Regards,
Neil

i wish it could talk neil

here is a coupe more pics but it was ****ing down

Thanks for all the pics j1mmyman. This thread has been informative for this n00b (me)

I thought this was a Charnley, someone else said it could be either that or a Lynn Idwall...improves the edge left by an Escher and is very like a Charnley. 9'' x 1.8'', but only 4-5mm thick out of its box..

An interesting one nonetheless, and has translucency..

I was watching a UK only Charnley Forest auction at Ebay (260749242890) with lousy pictures and just realized it was this stone up for sale. It went for £82. Someone will be disappointed for receiving what I believe to be slate.

i saw this stone too, i dont think a charnley either. I have spoken with the seller quite a few times on the phone now regarding all the stones he sells. he is a nice guy but he knows fine well what he is selling, hes a bit sneaky about it

Are you sure you're not talking about Lyn D, you said you talked with him on the phone.