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sounds like a lot of work but a valuable project ones finished.

I think we should start placing results in a wiki format or some kind of summery piece to make our commen project comprehensible...

well, yes, that's basicly a pile of whetstones you're looking at, the difficult part was convincing my girlfriend that it was worth the detour :beer1:

did she know why you picked that particular hike? these things can be dangerous ;)

here is a picture of the Eidsborg hones I picked up in Norway, the one on the right broke after I put it on the...

I just have to post this here, a Q & A about a hone lot on Ebay


I guess rock hunting is of all ages

While their I couldn't differentiate between the pieces of rock, but I understood from Henk Bos's documentation that they can be heat treated, so of course I couldn't resist to throuw one in a camp...

I just got back from Norway and couldn't help but pick up a few pieces of rock in an old quarry in Eidsborg and a random piece of rock somewhare else, I'll post some pictures later on :D

seems easier to just talk to the people in the active quarries and ask if you can go and play prospector for hone quality rocks on a sunday when it's not actively used, if there is a vain they turn...

For me it is the one time good luck piece of stone I'm looking for, getting vollume would be interrested if you try to set up a business, and if you find something like that there is not that much...

a contraption like this could be easily modified to make it lap your rocks, right? instead of moving the hacksaw it should move the holder in which you've clamped your rock, DMT plate underneat and...

looks like this Japanese guy was on a rockhound as well NO3 600G Raw Natural Sharpening Stone Pieces Knife Razor Chisel Sword Tomae | eBay

somehow I already dulled the dimond blade and distroyed...

Nice, I hope you could park right next to that piece of rock :p





I'm concidering to just go to the hardware store and buy a sandstone tile with a nice looking patern and just check if it's...

I would think sandstone could be a bevelsetter although what I found over there was course even for bevel setters. besides, the sample of sand stone I did split had a realy loose matrix and seemed a...

I'm joining in on the rock hound :beer1:

and in answer to the statement in the title of this thread: I found it near Fontaine Bleau, which is a world famous bouldering area about 80 km south of...

Living in the Netherlands every time I revisit this thread I see myself picking up a hamer and chisel and start hiking either in the Thuringiun slate mountains or around Vielsalm looking for some...

Charnley Forest or not, it's beautifull hone! I'll have to go there some day myself (and the plane ticket is probably cheaper then buying one from the bay :hmmm: )

I'd also like to see some pic of...

I have to say, I love reading this Thread! Does anyone have a nice source on geological information? maps with what type of rock is where, that sort a thing

as a climber I see lime-, sandstone...