joel cervera
08-16-2018, 11:15 PM
Hey All.
Up to this point I have been using either a granite surface plate with 60/100/150/220 sand paper. Or a King 1000/6000 waterstone followed by a strop with some green rouge for my sharpening needs. But I stumbled on to this stash of stones at an estate sale for $10 bucks. They've been sitting in the box they came in since I got them. But today I finally set out out clean them up. I broke out my camp stove and set out to boil them. I put em on wood chopsticks to keep em off the bottom of the pot. Initially I added some simple green . Not much happened. Then I added a packet of the dishwasher soap. That instantly brought the oil up. After that I set out to flatten them up. Was a bit like christmas as they were all so dark I couldn't see much of what they were.
Hoping someone might help ID some of these. But Mostly the one I believe could be a Washita Though its not quite like most I've seen.. Mine seems a bit more blotchy than most i've seen online. So maybe its not Washita. I have begun flattening it and its almost there. It seems very soft compared to the other stones. Though I believe the others to be all man made.
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Here are the others All appear to be exceedingly harder than the one above. It( the possible Washita )flattened nicely on a granite plate and some 60grit sand paper. The others all blow out the paper before much of them get flattened. the one at top is 1/2 coarse one side and finer on the other. Both dark grey. the middle is pink orange through out( seems similar to the pink/orange part on gthenorton thats at bottom). .. fine and hard as noted . Lastly the norton 1/2 pink orange fine, 1/2 grey and coarse.
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Finally here is a mess of smaller stones some of which I'll shape into slips or use for pocket knife etc.
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Don't know how I'll used these. the Washita will be fun to try out. The large man made ones seem daunting to try and flatten. and I don't know where they'd fit in to my current regime.
Thanks for any help in sorting through these, in advance.
Joel.
Up to this point I have been using either a granite surface plate with 60/100/150/220 sand paper. Or a King 1000/6000 waterstone followed by a strop with some green rouge for my sharpening needs. But I stumbled on to this stash of stones at an estate sale for $10 bucks. They've been sitting in the box they came in since I got them. But today I finally set out out clean them up. I broke out my camp stove and set out to boil them. I put em on wood chopsticks to keep em off the bottom of the pot. Initially I added some simple green . Not much happened. Then I added a packet of the dishwasher soap. That instantly brought the oil up. After that I set out to flatten them up. Was a bit like christmas as they were all so dark I couldn't see much of what they were.
Hoping someone might help ID some of these. But Mostly the one I believe could be a Washita Though its not quite like most I've seen.. Mine seems a bit more blotchy than most i've seen online. So maybe its not Washita. I have begun flattening it and its almost there. It seems very soft compared to the other stones. Though I believe the others to be all man made.
391670391669391668
Here are the others All appear to be exceedingly harder than the one above. It( the possible Washita )flattened nicely on a granite plate and some 60grit sand paper. The others all blow out the paper before much of them get flattened. the one at top is 1/2 coarse one side and finer on the other. Both dark grey. the middle is pink orange through out( seems similar to the pink/orange part on gthenorton thats at bottom). .. fine and hard as noted . Lastly the norton 1/2 pink orange fine, 1/2 grey and coarse.
391671
Finally here is a mess of smaller stones some of which I'll shape into slips or use for pocket knife etc.
391672
Don't know how I'll used these. the Washita will be fun to try out. The large man made ones seem daunting to try and flatten. and I don't know where they'd fit in to my current regime.
Thanks for any help in sorting through these, in advance.
Joel.