My lastest and greatest rock pile find.

On Monday of this week I argeed to help my new sister in law load and unload her horse trailer with hay from the field
after getting done helping I decided to take a look at the rocks that where laying around.
Man am I glad I picked up this gem off the ground.
It weights in about 2.65 pounds.
I just simply rub my made in China chef knife I use at my job on it dry it makes a wonderfully fine cutting noise of steel.
My Boss rubbed his Mac 8 inch chef knife on it and said wow.
Does any one know what kind of rock it is.
I use it dry cause water can't lube it at all and is nice and clean.

Its hard to tell from the pictures. My guess is the slate family. It is after all the biggest group, and encompasses a lot of rock. Give it a good scrub with a nail brush, it will start to show some color and patterns.

I like all stones,,,,I'm assuming that you will cut & lap it,,, as it looks now like a 2.65 pound rock with a 1" 1/2 honing area.

Yes, much clean, very sharpen.

I was just thinking about finding some stones "in the wild". Although the area I live in may prevent me finding any that I can sharpen on...

There is never any harm in trying. I can't stop looking.

Cool; lotsa rocks up there. In this part of NC the only thing coming out of the ground is sand, red clay, granite or tobacco.

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Originally Posted by MisterMoo

Cool; lotsa rocks up there. In this part of NC the only thing coming out of the ground is sand, red clay, granite or tobacco.

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I know my grandpa lived in NC before he died nothing but sand in his yard and pine trees.
He had littery one Oak type tree and it was a white oak. And it Looked like a bady tree. It had to be under 30 years
old. Well look at the bright you might never destroy a lawn mover by hitting rocks.
I was kind of bummed on that Monday night. Though cause I came to realize if I want to get a farm I need
to also have aleast a full time job around where I move to. Cause the farmer my sister in law bought hay from works
two full time jobs to be able to farm and get by.

Being from Orange County, that does have a high possibility of being slate. But there certainly are other stones in that area. As for only having sand, clay, granite and tobacco, I don't know about the others, but a good piece of granite makes an excellent hone! :gl: