Thread: This weekend's haul

You never know what you'll come across at flea markets though. Like the $10 NOS Geneva Cutlery, Henrys X that I found at one.

Wow! That looks like it's brand new. Nice find! Thrill of the hunt...

Originally Posted by Geezer

The old chunk of slate looks to have clamps for a Leather strop at one time . Take it apart and lap the stone. 'Could be a winner!
Nice haul for sure!

Got the stone out and cleaned the crud, it has a really smooth feel on top. It's actually pretty thick and the bottom looks roughly chiseled. I'll give it a try some day soon and see.
Top view

Side view

You are on fire recently. Enjoy.

Some very nice razors for sure, great find. Keep ya busy winter is coming.

Found a few more items at the flea market this weekend. There's a Kukri 360 with a nice worked spine, blade is in pretty good shape but the scales are both cracked at the pivot. I'll give her some new and better looking scales sometime soon. I got a tattered strop just for the hardware, 5 barber hones (swaty, boss barber, etc.) a couple are chipped here and there, a fine grit manufactured brownish hone that is extremely hard (so hard I'm afraid it will ruin my DMT lapping) luckily it's flat already, feels about 6-8K. Then, what I was pleased to find in with the other hones is a natural combo coticule. The coti was a little dished at first but I got it lapped flat now.

Wow..!!
Nice haul Tuzi.
The stone above the coti in the first pic, looks like the stone I honed on for years before learning about synthetic stones.

It sits on the kitchen window sill, keeping my vintage high carbon kitchen knives, shave ready..hehe.[emoji56]

Yeah it looks similar except the one I have is not two sided, it's just a big brown super hard chunk. Funny because I was thinking that it would be a good one for the kitchen! I cleaned the oil off of it with TSP/water solution then I rubbed my DMT on it for a few passes and when nothing happened, no slurry no nothing, I stopped with the DMT and tried sandpaper (better off wearing out a piece of sandpaper than the DMT). Still nothing, just as hard as can be. I ended up chamfering the edges with a beat up diamond file and left it at that. Gonna sharp up my turkey carving knife with it next month!

Mine was the same way.
Chewed up a 220 lapping stone, finished on paper. Same for the lapping stone.
But it was the only stone I used for honing everything, including my one and only razor at the time, just had to finish with a pasted leather belt that I grew out of. On the inside of the belt ,(suede side) one side was red rogue, the other white till learning about cr/ox. The outside...plain smooth leather.
Still use it , but only for certain razors, typically heavy Smiler's.