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Brought some of this shale home to my grandchildren to look for trilobites. If you look close there are some plant fossils in the one picture. They came from the The Wheeler Amphitheater in the House...

Don't leave your shale outside over winter at least here in MN.

I wasn't to impressed by this one and left it out to be snowed on etc.

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I have 4 or 5 of these and recommend them. What is another relatively boring slight rise in the road can all of a sudden turn into where a glacier ended or the edge of some ancient lake bed. Those...

This is quite hard. It is from a rock cut near Philipsburg Montana that I picked up on vacation. It was a lot of work to flatten even with what I borrowed from Randy, a Foley model 345 if I remember...

I now have a flat piece of Precambrian Mudstone.

Will it work for a hone?:shrug:

Dry.

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Wet.

My father passed on some stones he had collected to me and my wife. She made notes etc. to put in the box's. The shelf they were on collapsed under the weight and all the notes got mixed up......:cry:

Picture from a different thread but I use a Sharpie!:D


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I have just returned from a vacation through 9 states. I have a couple of buckets full of rocks and others under the seats and in the door pockets. I tried writing in pencil and that was soso. I then...

I am headed off to Utah. I am going to do a little rock hunting while there. Any ideas where to look? :D

Ok. Less than I would do.:thinking:

Looks nice but shouldn't you bevel the edges?

30+20+2=52 miles? :thinking:

I have had my wife yell at me to keep my eyes on the road a few times while going through a rock cut! :D

Looks pretty. Now for the million dollar question.... How does it hone?

I have some interesting shale I picked up in a road cut in the black hills . No pictures as it is buried under the snow in the yard at the moment. I may not be able to find the place again as I was...

Thank you , I never realized that Tripoli was made from Novaculite.

And I have 14 EE boots! :D

Thinking of creative lapping methods reminds me of the cutting board I have that my uncle made made out of Walnut burl. To lap that he stood on it and grabbed the bumper of a car and got dragged...

I have spent a little time looking for a hone in my area.The Glenwood Formation is a layer of Shale along the Mississippi around here. I researched it found it, tried it, and it was a bust as far as...