Thread: Cutlers Green? Or whatever you guys SAY it is!

If I remember right the example which was seen here came from old clock maker who had two and gave one away.
As about other hones from Snowdonia (please note Snowdonia not Snowdon) there are few already known. Namely DT and YL. With Neils white hone from Snowdon yes it is possible. There are deposits of white mineral. However I am not sure about its honing abilities as to my eye they look like silica veins.
Unfortunately links and photos of the quarry are lost in my old PC. But as for CG from what I have seen so far the quarry is not on Snowdon but on mountain next to it Moel Siabod. It would be helpfull if somebody with proficiency in photografy and access to pictures from the qurry coul give me time of the day and directin they were taken. This would allow to narrow to fewer possible quarry holes.

It was I who put one such stone for sale a long time ago, still posses it and still get ok shaves from it. The clock maker was a friend of my dads (he also made jewelry and cut gems and stuff, he had one of the most impressive hone and polishing stone collections I have ever seen even by HAD people) He said he got them from a town in the UK where they were literally everywhere, since they used them to pave some houses gardens and stuff.

He used the cutlers green to polish really small tools used to screw and arrange really tiny clock work stuff. This guy was no amateur too BTW, he once told me that the work he did was harder to do than brain surgery since a lot of the complex mechanisms needed to be virtually friction free so really high polishing stones were treasured. I will see if I can find a pic of the stone, its about 6x2.5 and looks brick like. Nothing like the one posted here and it is minty green with whitish streaks, seems to be kinda like a mix between beryl and chalk or something, its pretty psychadelic if you ask me. Will try to get some good picks of it to post.

Than you. I was getting worried that HAD got better of me and I started to see things which were not there. Lookin forward to see the pics.

Please, take a picture of the stone, I really want to see it and I hope it really is cuttler's green. Talking about HAD, yesterday I won a Grecian hone, with a James Howarth & Sons label that it says Grecian stone. This will be my next thread I'll open, if anyone knows anything about this stone, accept that it's very good

Is it the one of UK auction? To me it looked too much like one of newer CFs. Will be interestin to see proper pictures.

Yes, the UK auction. Are there newer CFs? I read somewhere that the green colored are the newer, and they were less fine and slower from the older ones, so I suppose the blue ones were the older ones. I think this stone comes from Wales, and the label seems old. I will take some pictures when it arrives.

The Grecian was in my watchlist too and I was going to start a thread on it but I'll let you do that now since you bought it. To me it looks like the exact same type of stone we've been discussing in this thread. This of course doesn't mean all of these are Grecians because it could just be a brandname like the Douglas Oilstone.

You can start a thread about them, and when I receive it, i can add my pictures. I don't think it's a brand name, if it's not a different stone, it would be more like a subcategory of another stone. I have seen price catalogs from old companies, and they have it as a different stone, like Charnley forest and Turkish oilstones, without brands. I don't think it looks like this one, its color is more like olive oil yellow-green, and the speckles are more subtle. This pattern is somewhat common with many UK stones, but they re not all of them the same kind. When it arrives i will take a closer look.