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Not what I had hoped to know. I guess I have been distracted by other shiny things but I also have rather resigned myself to the fact that I may never know age, brand or material. It may have to be...

So to resurrect this old thread, I got the urge to play with this thing again a while back and while I wouldn't say I have "mastered" it I have learned some tricks to using it successfully. I've been...

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Well...:thinking:...it's funny looking back on your own posts after time has passed. Since posting this I have not really learned any more about the stone but it doesn't really matter to me so much...

You're probably right Bill, in fact I know you are. Maybe I should let it go and maybe I'm being quixotic. I am actually doing what you suggest but let me ask you a question. If your father left it...

Well, I did a value assessment, not to be confused with a cost assessment (i.e. I got this hone from my father and have $0 in it. I bought my flattening stone for about $50. Therefore the hone cost...

Well, here's something. I called the Department of Geological Sciences main number at the University of Florida here in town. I told the woman that answered what I had and was wondering if someone...

Well unless Mother nature set down a bluish concrete type substrate and then poured even amounts of different type strata on either side of it, one harder than the other complete with swirls under...

Yeah I've done that and continue to do so. I wish I had the hourly I charge in my profession for all the time I have into searching. He didn't exactly buy a belsaw business. He bought out a guy who...

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Thanks biglou,
I may have gotten a little long winded and gotten abreast of the focus. What I was hoping is by describing the hone and how it looks and performs someone would say, "oh yeah, that's a...

Well, they say patience is a virtue but it's a very boring one. I've also heard that the west wasn't won on patience. I guess the trick is to know when to jump and when to stand. Since I didn't...

AMENDMENT TO THE UPDATE:
I went back to look at this stone again after it had dried some and I noticed that it's sparkles even more now that it's not wet which I don't believe I ever noticed before....

UPDATE:
Okay, so I did The Simple Green cleaning. Scrubbed it with a brush and The Simple Green which did clean some dirty looking stuff off of it but didn't seem to change it's appearance very...

Okay. I'll try that and report back. Actually I think I did try to clean it with some Dawn and plain water but not aggressively.

I've actually run a razor across it some. I don't have a microscope or even a jeweler's glass to see it up close but it left the edge rather shiny like it looks after the pyramid progression or after...

Back in the seventies when I was a kid my dad bought a sharpening business. It was primarily for saws, belsaw machines, a carbide sharpener etc but one of the things included in it was this hone...