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It wa sjust to shorten what it is. I am interested how the hones were made, with what tools, locations and other nerdy things.

I am good too

Sounds ok to me too even thought most of my sundays are taken up.

If you are on budget why not to drill few hockey pucks - weight can be adapted to your liking by number of the pucks and install them on a piece of stick.

Collecting stones is just another hobby

That was the first box even thought the hone was not mine. My friend from Boston US asked me to find him CF when they were not that known. That single hone started my obsesion with colecting naturals. However thinking of how effective is my hone box making it is not. Learning a lot but the...

Thinking of that with the need to make boxes for my stones my woodworking journey started. However also thinking of how long is the journey and there are not many boxes out of it. I will try to find some pictures and post them.

It can be used both ways. You can have coarser inclusions in which will damage your edge or you expecting certain finish of that edge and those inclusion are not going to damage the edge but can damage or impossible to make the required finish. It can be single crystal of different behaviour...

My educated guess is CF. Watch outy this often have toxic inclusions and are coarser than normal CF. Also should be a bit softer than usual.

Now imagine slab of LI about 8 metres tall os CF 45 metres tall. Dream ? No it's reality. Just to add to your Turkey/Cretan hones have you heard which one was cooked in oil as part of manufacturing process?

Firstly congratulations to that saw you wanted it more. Secondly I believe you can still get some original spare parts from France for those saws. If it comes to worst please do not scrap the saw. I am sure you can get your money easily back by selling parts of it and make other users very...

You are right on the second one. It is LI. But for the first one it is difficult to anything from available pictures. What does the slurry look like? Aby patterns? Flaws?

Brians book is good. Have a copy as well as have seen those hones in flesh, Brian has done a lot of work on it.

Just watch out with your diamond plate. Some slates can have hard inclusions which can easily damage your plate. I would not go higher than 400 grit on the plate. That is where is the most of the work finished anyway.

Let me know when you have motivation to go i could join you and show you where it is. It is in fact better to go in the autumn when the leaves and shrubbery are gone and you can actually see what you looking for. As with the danger LM quarry apart from last 100 yds going directly to the quarry...

The e-book already exists. At least part of it. It is Henks book. You can easily google it out. Or here. Lokk on the bottom of the page for English version of different parts. http://bosq.home.xs4all.nl/

To clarify that there is no mis interpretation. Llyn Melynllyn are welsh slate hones which have only name in common with Llyn Melynllyn quarry where used to be quarried novaculite rock for hones. BTW it is not that bad walk to the quarry about and hour and half on dirt track all the way and not...

Steve so far you have the information correct. What so far was not said that there are other sources of layred sandstone which can be sold as Hindostan hone by some sellers. As with the why naturals were abandoned for faster naturals and then for manmade ones. In my opinion the speed of use is...

My advice is go for it. It is good fun. However before you put it on you precious steel use some old screwdriver/chisel or something less precious to you and go over whole area of the hone in perpendicular strokes to determine if you have any inclusions which could mes up your edge and where...

I will be eagerly reading this as I am also planning to build my workshop about 5.5x 3