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The point is that someone in my family has a vacation home by the sea on Cape Cod with embedded pieces of Vermont slate in the housing structure. In the 30+ years that I've visited the place,...

Update. We had a small carbon steel kitchen knife that needed a touch-up prior to tonight's meal. So I put approx. 1g of French sea salt into 30ml Vosgian tap water to approximate sea water. 10...

Yes, off-topic, but interesting nonetheless. A salt print is normally printed-out, so development, or stopping it, isn't the issue. In this case, the salt bath is used in a similar way to hypo...

Interesting that you bring up old photographic processes with this. As I recall, one of the tricks to stabilizing a salt print was to dip it in something like a 2% to 4% sodium chloride solution...

Thank you for the replies. Maybe I've been reading too much Herman Melville, which has led me to wonder about a stone's versatility in moving from, say, ocean salt water to sperm oil when out at sea...

I'm wondering if anyone has any experience or insight they can share with regard to honing with salt water on natural stones. What I'm wondering is if the salt water might help to keep the stone...