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I guess you guys saw this - £83, not bad!

Regards,
Neil

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Aaaargh! There were quite a few different sources - I wish I had made a note of them! I will post the links to them as I find them again. For now, here are a few to be getting on with:

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That's right Jimmy - both lovely stones. The ruler in the pic bears out the longer=better-for-honiong theory, too! Just one other thing - one person said that the grain on his Charnley had a grain...

Jimmy - it said that the best ones tended towards a greyish colour (it didn't say that there were not olive coloured ones), that they had red spots and swirls and that the ones from the lesser...

From what I've read, the stones that didn't come from the Whittle Hill quarry tended to be mostly olive green in colour and given to inclusions - they are said to be a recrystallised form of chert...

It certainly looks like one, but it also looks a lot like some vintage coticules, especially with those black spots that manganese produces in coticules. Some Charnley Forest hones are said to have...