Photos identifying stone - novaculite

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Lifendeath

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I broke my stone, but i really loved it and need help identifying it, so i may replace it. It was sold to me as a washita, but it is quite hard and quite smooth. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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I have Washitas that look very similar to your stone.
You may be able to fix that, years ago I bought a translucent for cheap that was cracked in half but the owner epoxied it.

I had to lap it flat and after that it works great.
Visually you can tell it was repaired but in use you cannot.
 
Hard to tell but it looks like a black Arkansas to me. I treasure an old black Arkansas bench hone I inherited from a great uncle-- I finish my high carbon blades on that stone. However, I use DMT diamond hones for 99% of my sharpening. Doubt it can be glued, but the two pieces should still be usable.
 
Lifendeath said:
I broke my stone, but i really loved it and need help identifying it, so i may replace it. It was sold to me as a washita, but it is quite hard and quite smooth. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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I did something similar with one of my stones i used a little cyanoacrylate to glue it back together and it works great now.
 
Lifendeath said:
I broke my stone, but i really loved it and need help identifying it, so i may replace it. It was sold to me as a washita, but it is quite hard and quite smooth. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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Washita. I would buy another one and use that one as two smaller stones.
 
Hi guys thanks for all the responses, I actually own two washita stones, but my other is nowhere near as burnished as the pictured one and is much coarser and softer. Finding information on washita stones is quite hard. Based on some research my broken stone may-be a lily white washita that has been soaked in oil.

I bought some epoxy and will glue it back together, and keep and eye for similar stones I can pick up.
 
jpm2 said:
How so ?

Here's another hard arkansas, part black, part translucent.

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The nature of the damage to the edges and the fine mica like reflective material particularly in the different color band upper right in your original photo.
 
garry3 said:
The nature of the damage to the edges and the fine mica like reflective material particularly in the different color band upper right in your original photo.
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I have no experience with slates, unless this really is one.
The edge chips are all conical, which is characteristic of novaculite. Is it the same for slate?

The reflective portion might have been where I touched up a small wood chisel the other day.
I cleaned it up and took comparison pictures with a Dan's hard black in different lights.

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life, go to Dans Arkansas stones, there is a whole write up on the washita grade stone. DM
 
jpm2 said:
I have no experience with slates, unless this really is one.
The edge chips are all conical, which is characteristic of novaculite. Is it the same for slate?

The reflective portion might have been where I touched up a small wood chisel the other day.
I cleaned it up and took comparison pictures with a Dan's hard black in different lights.

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The slates will be much easier to slurry with a diamond stone or another stone (and are use full that way). They also don't have as high a pitched ring when tapped.

I have miss identified more stones than I would like to admit with just photos and I could well be wrong here also but I would think that stone a slate based on that first photo. If it rings like a Dan's and is hard to lap like a Dan's it's a black ark.
 
garry3 said:
The slates will be much easier to slurry with a diamond stone or another stone (and are use full that way). They also don't have as high a pitched ring when tapped.

I have miss identified more stones than I would like to admit with just photos and I could well be wrong here also but I would think that stone a slate based on that first photo. If it rings like a Dan's and is hard to lap like a Dan's it's a black ark.
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It doesn't ring like the Dan's, but is hard to lap. It could very well be a slate.
I'll see how they slurry next use.
 
David Martin said:
life, go to Dans Arkansas stones, there is a whole write up on the washita grade stone. DM
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Been all over dans website, can't find any info about washita. Even emailed them looking for info and while they did concur it was washita, but that was as far as they could speculate without physically looking at it.

Its all glued together now. Got a bit crazy with sandpaper and put a small hollow on one side, but that's easy to lap flat. I can post photos if anyone is interested.
 
I just looked on their site and the info. On washita stones is still in the table of descriptions. Their grit, coarseness, specific gravity, ect.. DM
 
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