Thread: Charnley forest stone

Maybe someone used it with slurry to set the bevels on his chisels.

he must have been one patient man then?
Mmmm thinking about it , large glass of whisky, warm summer evening, birds twittering in the trees, lots of slurry, favourite set of chisles, should see the bottle off

The stone is probably 100 years old ? A lot of iron sharpened on that bad boy ...... and no lapping plate.

Yes, I suppose they didn't have some guy a 1000 miles away knocking out cheap blades for next to nothing back in the day. Their tools were valued and used untill there wasn't enough left of them to make servicable. Reminds me of a few French razors I've seen.
My dad told me, the school he taught at had a guy come in every now and then to sharpen the woodwork, metalwork and pottery class tools. One day they found it more cost effective to buy stuff made in China, then throw it away when it needed any honing. I had a glut of Marples chisles for a while, with the Headmasters blessing amazingly.

Laped the hone with 120, 240 then 600 grit w'n'd. Took quite a while.
The surface now looks a bit more polished than my coticules.
It is also very slightly lighter in colour than before, Probably from old oil, luckily I'd say the stone doesn't absorb oil, it's too dense.
I took a 6/8+ Taylors Eye Witness that had a keen sticky arm-hair poping edge, and did about 100 laps with a water-washing-up liquid mix.
The bevel and spine area looked more mirror like afterwards and the edge felt even stickier. The razor didn't pop arm hairs any better,but no worse.
The razor had previously been honed up to Cro2 on card then leather, so I was very suprised at the extra polishing effect and sticky edge off the CF.
I also did about 40 or so laps on a Puma No1 4/8 with similar results.
Not bad results considering the Cro2 is supposed to somewhere in the 30k grit area.
Now for a shave

Ok The Shave
razor -- Taylor Eye Witness 6/8+ Round Point Bi-Concave.
Big Cheap pure badger brush.
Soap -- Ingrams Shave Cream.
Prep -- I lathered my face with said creme and brush

Excellent shave,BBS, very smooth. WTG and ATG once each, some areas more as needed.
Overall a better shave than I usually get. Honestly.

If its a Charnley, its the ultimate finisher. Wouldnt mind getting my hands on one.

Hi, I don't think it's 30k or whatever CrO2 is, but it is finer than any other natural stone I have(DT,WoA,Coticule).
It is quite slow, but, if it's used in progression, it's quick enough.
If I had to guess a grit If a coticule with water was about 10k, I'd guess a CF is 12-14k, but it is a real guess.
If I manage to find a bigger CF stone I will pass this one on through the BST.

That sounds very good!
Thanks for testing so briefly.
(... and I'd like one as well of course )

Originally Posted by 0livia

(... and I'd like one as well of course )

I don't think they are that rare in the UK.