Thread: Hone ID please!

I'm looking for a brick...

Anyone seen my brick?? Anyone?

Mark???




Scott

Originally Posted by honedright

I'm looking for a brick...

Anyone seen my brick?? Anyone?

Mark???




Scott

Marble I've handled is pretty soft stuff relatively speaking. Weird.

Chris L

I believe these stones may be soft Arkasas or more likely Wa****a. A pourus enough stone to suck up a hundred years of dirt and oil but too hard to work with. I tried belting a couple of suspect stones in the hopes they would reveal their true colors but it just wore out the belts and it
smelled like flint. I'm not fond of the Arkansas family of stones.

Thanks beenpickin! I think I know what I own now!!

From wikipedia! I find the it interesting that the Latin root for novaculite means razor stone!
Quachita is pronounced wa****a!

Novaculite is a form of chert or flint found in the Ouachita Mountains of Arkansas and Oklahoma and in the Marathon Uplift of Texas. Novaculite is considered to be geosynclinal highly siliceous sediments and may be a product of the low-grade metamorphism of chert beds. The strata were deposited in the Devonian Period and subjected to uplift and folding during the Ouachita orogeny of the Pennsylvanian/Permian Periods. Novaculite is very resistant to erosion and the layers of novaculite stand out as ridges in the Ouachita Mountains.
Novaculite is a form of microcrystalline or cryptocrystalline quartz. The color varies from white to grey-black and the specific gravity shows an increase from 2.2 to 2.5. The very hard dense rock is used as a whetstone. It has been mined since prehistoric times both as material for use as arrow and spear points and as sharpening stones.
The word novaculite is derived from the Latin word novacula, for razor stone.

thats not an ark soft or washita. ark soft or washita is hard but will dish with use because it has pores and soft or washita are fast cutting stones