Recent content by Desert Rat

It's very similar to Dipropylene Glycol which is used in products for tightening loose chair joints, hammer hafts ect. Might work the same.

This stone was posted on another site and is a creek bed find from South Africa. I thought for sure it was some how related to a Charney when it was first posted. Described as hard and fine.

I'm loving the edges the stone produces on my carbon steel pocketknives, just the right amount of toothy edge. It's hard to get a feel for the speed of the stone though working with such a small hone and knives. I think Pike claimed they were fast. What is your experience?

Well, there's two of us. I thought I was the last one.

That brown slurry and the mica sparkles are pretty good identifiers. It's a tiny thing but I'm going to see how it does with some pocketknives.

I found a little Lisbon Pike Chocolate axe stone. Paid too much for it I'm sure, some other dummy kept bidding so there were two of us.

"Surgical" please no, Pike- Norton never did that and we shouldn't either.

I use mineral oil from the feed store, about $17gal. I don't need anything thinner for knifes or edged tools. It's probably the exact same stuff as some are selling as honing oil.

Wizzard, this guy popped up on my youtube and thought he might be of interest to you. Maybe it's already posted in here somewhere I don't know. I don't have the attention span to go see. We got spring happening.

What did he say?

Is that a Dan's true hard? Looks like the same material as a hard I have of Dan's. Interesting thing with my stone is the white part actually sheds grit. I can't feel it on the stone and as far as I can tell it has no negative impact. It's very odd for an ark to do that. Does the white part of...

Looks like a nice stone but not with out a flaw. You can beat the price though.

Did that Jasper come from a seller in Idaho?

Numbers on naturals used to trigger me too. I guess I'm mellowing with age. If it helps someone I'm good with it, even if it is just a generalization. I won't be putting you on ignore anytime soon for your "unpopular opinion".

Seems to be a lot of over lap and redundancy with Washita's, Turkish, Hindostan's and in the upper limit also with the natural razor hones. I have plenty of room here should y'all decide to stream line a bit...