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Not completely, on one side there is the introduction story as mentioned. On the other there are old literature sources which speak of "petrified wood" there is no reference to that process which was...

Yeah sure youre right, this is normal geological petriefied wood which was created by nature. That has nothing to do with the description of the Introduction story or better said with youre...

Progress after 80grits WD paper and probably 45minutes hard lapping.....this will take forever...

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Hey Vasilis, good approach....i dont know if this was ever a real good working thing. Actually all is too foggy and unclear for me and the literature sources are rare...but they do exist. It seems to...

Thanks to Sebastian (Sharpchef) i received a source where somebody already tried out to hone on petrified wood.

My peculiar nature: Time is on my side - petrified wood sharpening stone

Ok Vasillis, start that thing, iam looking forward to buy some hones :beer1::rofl2:

Actually i think its not possible to create stone out of wood within 8 years without a modern procedure. Today who knows it might be possible simulating a specific condition and pressure....its even...

Do you own it ? Would be interesting to see additional pictures...

Ok lets update with another puzzle/detail of history written down......

"Own's Barber Hone, Made of Hickory, 200 years Old"
Seven Valleys, Aug. 27 - H.L. Shive, local merchant, has an old...

Oh yeah quite sure on that...there was a Discussion if the Panama Hone (actually some examples) were made of petrified wood....

The question is whats happening on the bevel using it?

I remembered that i have that A.M Hone "New Hickory", probably a marketing campaign from A.M. Hone :beer1:
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Actually they look...

Introduction:
Doing my researches digging deep in the archives of the WWW and Newspapers i actually found another interesting and funny story to tell. Its about the phenomenal "Old Germany Hickory...