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Seems like I spoke a little too soon about not having other British hones to report, found some notes I scribbled down that were separated from the rest. There was a mine in Ayrshire called the...

One more new discovery of an English hone to report, this one coming from High Halden in Kent and described as a hone of a particular quality, resembling the Turkey stone. I've finished going through...

Going through the various pieces of correspondence and literature that I acquired during my fruitless search for the Devonshire Oilstone I came across another two hones hailing from England. There is...

I know I gave up looking for this stone the other week, and I'm not going to expend any more energy on actively looking for it, but it seems that the enquiries I made have been doing the rounds among...

Devon: Home of the Best Sharpening Stone. Earlier on in this thread I mentioned this article, I was hoping for a hard-copy, but seeing as I never heard back from the SOB's at Wiley Interscience who...

Do we have any members here from Staffordshire? The reason I ask is because sorting through the information I've gathered I've come across a discrepancy that could do with some clarification. In the...

Some more information about Derbyshire Hones:

Mr. Farey enumerates 138 stone quarries in Derbyshire, some of which produce an ashlar of a good and durable quality for building. Some excellent...

Progress is now non-existant, I thought I was finally getting somewhere with this stone but alas, leads never panned out and many emails went unanswered.

However, during the course of my...

Progress is still slow, very slow, however as this thread seems to have developed into a thread about other British Hones and not just the Devonshire Oilstone, I thought I'd post another snippet of...

The book certainly is good news, I posted a while ago asking if anyone knew of any relevant literature, so a newly published book is something to look forward to. On a local level, I've tried a...

Progress Update 24th August.

I recently emailed a representative for an Antique Tool Interest Group. Although he was unable to provide me with any information on the Devonshire Oilstone or the...

Hi Jason,

Thanks for the reply. The representative of the Tavistock History Society said he'd have something more definite for me by the end of this month, so I'm hoping to make some progress in...

Hi Rob,

Welcome to the forum. In relation to Austwick itself, do you know where the cave/ water spring known as the Moughton Whetstone Hole is? The references to Moughton hones I've found thus...

Thanks for the offer. I'll wait and see what information I get from the Institute of Quarrying, but if they can't help I'll try and arrange a time with you. It would be good to have a second pair of...

I've already contacted the North of England branch of the Institute of Quarrying to see if I can find out anything more about this stone. On the website where I found the picture it did say that this...

You can find a pciture of the Moughton Whetstone here http://www.settledistrictu3a.org.uk/nchtjournal/Journals/2005/Sundaywalks/crummack.html#whetstone

Going back to the Devonshire Oilstone, I've just received information concerning an article that was published in Geology Today entitled, "Devon: Home of the Best Whetstone." That's a promising title...

For all the HAD sufferers here, in the course of my investigations into the Devonshire Oilstone, I've come across another UK hone and this one is described as being particularly fine and is known as...

I meant to post these links sooner, for anyone doing their own research on the various British Stones. Even if the representatives of the various societies listed are unable to help personally, they...

I've heard back from the Devon & Cornwall branch of the Institute of Quarrying and they do not have any records of the Devonshire Oilstone. Also, the Mindat.org entries for the Wheal Jewell and...

Woohoo! I may have actually found the mine where these stones were extracted. It's early days still, but someone sent me a more detailed extract from the talk where this stone was mentioned, it reads...

Seems that I may have been a little hasty in writing off the Tavistock History Society, I've just this minute received a response to my original e-mail, and on an even more positive note, the History...

Hi Jimmy,

Jason_01 is still a regular poster on the British Blades forum, he even started a couple of threads on British Natural Stones over there. His initial source material seems to be the...

Progress Update, August 10th.

Well I've been doing a lot of behind the scenes work on tracking down the Devonshire Oilstone, but given my success I might just as well not have bothered. The stone...

I'd always wondered why the Ratisbon Razor Hone, seemingly so highly regarded here, seemed to be unknown on the forums. Then, having read the description properly, in connection with the Old Rock...