Thread: I think this is a CF

It doesn't look like a CF to me - more like a grecian-type LI - there isn't a great deal between them. Maybe the LIs are somewhat harder, but a good LI is as good as a good CF, or so I've found. Both are novaculites.

The red colouration is hard to describe if you haven't seen it first hand. It is a type of chatoyance effect that certain stones have - an almost three dimensional effect when you get the illusion of looking past the surface of the stone, and not even all CFs have this.

In the end analysis they are all individual stones, and they got made by nature, not a conveyor belt with dosed-out amounts of minerals, so even the extremes of one type of hone can be hard to distinguish and allocate - even within the same family. If it's a good finisher, its a good finisher - what else matters?

Regards,
Neil