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Good point, no doubt the native Americans in the area were sharpening their knives, arrowheads, what have you. Probably the first to discover the properties of the Arkansas sharpening stones.

You calling me odd :mad: ??? Just kidding. :) There is a google book here from the 1890s that gives a lot of early history on who was using what around that time. It focuses on the geological area of...

Your guess is as good as mine. :) I've often wondered what the precise answer to that question is. What I'm guessing is that they were no different than we are today, they used what was available at...

I'm not precisely sure when synthetic hones came into the equation I suppose that man searched out rocks to hone his cutting implements from the time they developed them. The best of whatever was...