Thread: And the HAD continues

Originally Posted by Piet

Yeah I know him, I found his blog a while back and talked with him a bit. I showed him this forum so he could posts stones from his collection if he was unsure what they were. Apparently he was getting into straight razors as well.

You have to get lucky to find good stones as BIN, it doesn't happen very often.

I received a big boxed CF today as well, not a BIN unfortunately, I haven't weighed the stone yet but it says 3.0kg on the parcel

I am going to test the stone today with a bunch of razors, hopefully it is a good one. So far I like how smooth and glass like it is.

And yes when I got mine there were like 4-5 at the same time on e-bay most went for very reasonable prices. There was one that was 14" long I think. Hope someone from here got it.

Originally Posted by MarkinLondon

WOW! that one is huge. For a while I was under the impression that mine was the largest, but now I humbly abdicate.

This entire post is beginning to sound a bit perverted, eh?

hehe

Perhaps that was mine, it came in a 14 1/2" box. After searching for your CF I discovered I bought one from him as well

Originally Posted by Piet

Perhaps that was mine, it came in a 14 1/2" box. After searching for your CF I discovered I bought one from him as well

Nice score

one thing I find interesting about mine is that it seems the top ~1cm is glued to the rest of the CF, I wonder if there was any purpose to do it this way or it separated at some point and was just put back in place

A piece glued ontop is possible, but it probably just looks that way. The part that was inside the box has clean sides and the portruding top is dark because it was exposed to oil, swarf and slurry, the borderline is a hardened mix of oil, swarf and slurry. I usually chisel this line away but leave the top darkened.

Originally Posted by Piet

A piece glued ontop is possible, but it probably just looks that way. The part that was inside the box has clean sides and the portruding top is dark because it was exposed to oil, swarf and slurry, the borderline is a hardened mix of oil, swarf and slurry. I usually chisel this line away but leave the top darkened.

Thanks I'll clean it up .

Congrats! Thats a real beauty

Hang on to that stone. I think it's big enough for name, dates, even a short message to your admirers when you get get ready for that sort of thing.

Did you hit the lottery...?

Surely, you must have enough hones now to build a small home....! I can recommend a counselor when your ready to admit you have a problem...That's the first step you know....

Originally Posted by mainaman

My new stone arrived today.
A huge CF that I got from e-bay at a steal price.
315x55x 40mm

That thing is huge , I did not realize it until I saw the box and the stone...

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Originally Posted by zib

Did you hit the lottery...?

Surely, you must have enough hones now to build a small home....! I can recommend a counselor when your ready to admit you have a problem...That's the first step you know....

He he I admit I have the HAD.


Ok an update to how the stone works for me.

Maksim, when he tried his CF, mentioned that the stone works well with tmonagura, so I tried the method on mine.
I took a Fridour to the slurry and did ~60 circles each way , I go by eye so until the slurry darkened.
After that I diluted with water a few times doing sets of 10 x strokes, then finished on water with a hint of dish soap.
Stropped on leather and got a great edge, very sharp and very smooth. Actually sharper than what I am comfortable with so I did 7 passes on CrO ,which took off some of the bite. The stone will need more evaluation of course , with other grinds and steels , but I like the results so far.