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Then sell it at a local market. Enough local demand for them to be not to interested in global demand.302218 The whole story in a couple of pictures, cool!

302213302214302215302216302217 they are a actually from a mine that they have been working on for over 60 years only for sharpening stone. They had a cave-in a couple years ago and had to dig out the...

The crazy part is I have had a similar vision and this is taking so long it seems tempting. Lol!

I have done a local search for lapping the stone and have come up empty handed. Does anyone know of a someone that does lapping a stone for a service in the San Francisco Bay Area? I would hate to...

302160302161302162302164Got most of the surface done but these last chisel marks are like .020"to .030" deep and are taking forever to lap through. Ran out of sic powder so need to order some more....

Jfk742 thanks, sounds like a plan. Appreciate the suggestion!

Godzilla is a great name! This one came in at a little over 10 pounds, Godzilla is over five times as heavy, kind of hard to imagine. I bought it for knives and machetes and can tell it will excell...

Well after quite some time I still have not recieved my large stone, but I have purchased a smaller one and one of my relatives did me a favor and flew it back with him to Cali.
Well these are my...

Thanks b2012, I knew the rockhounds would enjoy the pictures and the journey. In all my travels I have only found one stone for sharpening(a knife bevel setter). I found it in Clearlake while...

I love testing new rocks too. It was what brought me to straight razors. I started with knives and synthetics(chosera) and found natural stones. Sold my synthetics exept my 400 and 1000 as those are...

The Chef286353286354His food!286355 His knives!286356286357286358 His stones286359 Above average in my opinion! Spoke to soon on that dead animal thing.
Also ekrets is a very respected member...

Yes JP5 the guinea pig part was for after, if and only if I like the big one. Only if I find the big one inconvinient realy. My uncle will not be here for another two to three weeks so it will be...

Thank's ekrets,JP5,Dieseld,Steve56, Coachmike it is in fact my intentions to share about how I found this stone and my shock of how much it weighed.
Not sure how it turned to me hyping them to...

Hello AlienEdge,
Any old rock? If you look at pictures they are going for a specific vein. They have been at this mine for at least 60+ years. They had a cave in some years ago, and had to dig...

These pics are from two rock hounds he has refered me. The bid one is from Oaxaca and the other two are from Monterey, Mexico.286257 too. Very Cool people!286258 This one is from the chef from...

Last ones!286252 Butchers picking out stones.286253286254wet and dry pics!286255286256 all these stones have sold just pics from about a month ago. Mine is the second from the top on the upper left!

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No I do not know what type of stone it is. It might have been used for making Mayan buildings! Lol. I spoke with the seller and another stone enthusiast from Mexico and they sent me some cool...

I forgot to add that I spoke to him about shipping to the U.S. and he stated that he spoke to Fedex and they did not think it would pass customs so that made him fearfull of him geeting a bad...

He had smaller ones that looked like amakusa with many wavy bands. Looked like tree rings, I even told him to save me one like that in the future.
I talked to him and he stated that the quarry...

The stone is from Southern Mexico not from Monterey or the mollejon as it is known. They have a white stone I've heard about 700-1200 grit and a black one at about 4k-5kish. This one dries whitish...

A couple of months ago a relative told me he had run across a man selling sharpening stones while on vacation. He said he was going to call me but forgot about it. I was pretty upset about it, as all...