Thread: Another Charnley Forest

I picked up another CF on rather minimal information. The price was good, the stone unidentified and very dirty and oily even though it had been cleaned up a bit. It was the weight that made me buy it and a vague little red vein I saw in it.
Back at my workshop I put an old belt on the belt sander and flattened the stone. My heart sank, the sander was taking stone off rather too quickly for a CF and the resulting surface was looking rather like a slate type stone. Typical of CF it was set in a plaster type mixture in the box. I continued doubting it could be a CF but when I got water on it and lapped it the colours of a CF shone out. This stone when dry is rather bland and grey, when wet the red veins and tiger stripping shows up well, still not very green in colour. One interesting feature are the 'holes' in the underside, some of which are stilled filled with the plaster compound and the yellow colour. This is a large stone 10 inch in length and weighs about 1200grams The top stone in the picture is a CF I found last year. The stone is just like my other CFs and is hard and slow in cutting, even though it was covered in oil, it works well with water only without the water beading.

i wish i could find something like that around here "affordably".... but our antique shops here suck... and everything they have is 2.5times retail.....