Thread: Mint green hone with orange dots

Great stones and finally I had something to show my wife to stop her rambling when my lot goes for airing.

For me the stone in the pine base near the middle of the picture is interesting.

Originally Posted by Neil Miller

The paddle:

It's not quite as green as I thought, but it appears a darker green when wet.

Regards,
Neil

Thanks Neil - I instantly feel better about myself. For a while, i was buying stones and thinking "it makes no sense that I buy more of these, I can't possibly defend it.

What do you think of the little yellow oilstone next to your charnley? I have one of those in a bench stone size, it's an absolute treat.

Originally Posted by Neil Miller

Not the whole collection, Martin - there are more than twice this number, but that would have cluttered up the table too much, plus I left out all the diamond plates and the synthetics as they aren't really that interesting to look at. Here goes:
Neil

Thanks for sharing your collection Neil Really nice! Do any of these stone get used at all?

It's a great stone, Dave. It is a hard/translucent white arkansas, very hard and glassy and requires quite a number of laps. It's main use is for very warped blades - I have made one of the thin long edges semi-circular in section, so just one point on the bevel/spine is in contact with the stone at any one time. Some of the lower grade slips are rounded in this manner, too, so I can do some work on badly warped blades.
Above it are a kind of smoky translucent and translucent slipstones.

Regards,
Neil

Nearly all of them, Martin - I try to keep a variety of widths to work on different blades according to what sort of defect the blade has. The most used ones still have dried slurry on them, such as the yellow belgians, the blue/spotted-yellow belgian, the Black Rock thuringian and the candia stones. Even the very thin slips are used to sharpen the inner curved edges of some of my leather edge tools, and the large purple slate for dressing my half-round leather knife.

Regards,
Neil

Originally Posted by hatzicho

Great collection Neil. Thanks for sharing.

Hatzicho - I know you know this, but I just wanted to point out to everyone that I am not trying to steal this thread! Folks - Hatzicho asked me to respond in a PM, so please forgive me if it looks like I am trying to hijack the thread - apologies!

Regards,
Neil

Neil,

I think we all like your posts and are lucky to get knowledge about your experience with hones. So I hope you will go on posting and share your great knowledge.
Thanks a lot!!!

Peter

Originally Posted by hatzicho

Neil,

I think we all like your posts and are lucky to get knowledge about your experience with hones. So I hope you will go on posting and share your great knowledge.
Thanks a lot!!!

Peter

Gut gesagt Junge !