Thread: Rock hunting in Canada!!

Good luck!!


I might do the same thing this fall in my area, if I can get there before it snows

If you do not want to put your blade to it Henk showed me his testing way of unknown rocks. He uses old tea spoon which is realy easy repolish between tests.

Originally Posted by adrspach

If you do not want to put your blade to it Henk showed me his testing way of unknown rocks. He uses old tea spoon which is realy easy repolish between tests.

Please explain!

Use polished convex part of spoon, make few pases on the stone and check for scratches. For simmilar job you could use ols casing from ball bearing but spoon is easier to get. Once scratched can be easily repolished to original nick. If you have any doubtfull patches go over and you will see any impurities scratching out of pattern. Good luck

Originally Posted by adrspach

If you do not want to put your blade to it Henk showed me his testing way of unknown rocks. He uses old tea spoon which is realy easy repolish between tests.

I use the ol' spoon test too. You've started something that has had me going for a while too, I have geological surveys of Newfoundland all over the place! Best I've found is some purple slate near Twillingate Newfoundland, Very good finisher!

Good luck on your hunt, have fun climbing around the woods picking up rocks and getting strange looks when you rub them with spoons...