Sharpening Pucks

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Ernest DuBois

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Please, does any one know about just what the Gransfors combination puck is?
(Other than a handy way to sharpen your axe while out and about.)

E.DB.
 
not sure I understand the question. Do you mean what is it made of, or price, or is it any good?

I have the older (natural stone) style, and I love it. ran about 50 dollars US, I think. I don't have one of the newer versions.


-ben
 
Well I'm looking at mine which is, actually I have no idea how old it is, but I always took it to be a manufactured piece until taking a closer look and noticing it is striated and maybe a sectioned core from two natural stones glued together, one course, one finer. I would like to know more about it but you say that at a time they sold a natural stone version. Can you describe the one you have?

But lately I have been using an Orsa natural stone and like it a lot so will get hold of a couple of their puke-like stones.

E.DB.
 
we are talking about the same item. the newer one is half ceramic and half coarse oilstone. no way to mistake the one we both have with the newer one. will try to snap a pic later.

I read somewhere way back when that these were naturally quarried stones from a certain place. I'll see if I can't find that info, too.

later.

-ben
 
Now at least I have a newfound appreciation for this stone given that they are no longer being made, even though I have always liked the way it has functioned, how you get started with the corse side and it takes a few seconds to get a bit of a slurry going and similarly on the fine honing side it takes some time before it begins to bite in.

A shame there are only two or three makers of this disk form, anyway that I know of. Maybe there are others.

E.DB.
 
These are very nice stones and getting more and more rare but still being mined on a small scale in the Ardenne, though you can no longer get them as a whole with the natural seam so they are now milled in two parts, the softer cutting stone, the white part, and the hard shale backing, and then glued together. You would be hard pressed to find one in a puck form.

Down there scrounging around in some old tailings, I picked out a few thin shards that are still usable.

E.DB.
 
Some of my coticule stone or belgische broken as they are also called.

The shard is about the best I could find down along the creek below the mine, and the small shaving is an off-cut used to make a slurry on the face of the stone, not a traditional practice but an idea borrowed from the Japanese with their nagura stones.
I don't use these for an axe though, with the exception of the carpentry axe, because axes cause uneven wear and will eat through the stone relatively fast, like so, and I think it's better to use stones that are more readily renewable like these artificial ones.
At one time I did have a very nice old Belgian natural stone, beautiful, I gave that one away.
And this is the sandstone puck then.



E.DB.
 
"made of sandstone from the island of Gotland"
from http://www.gransforsbruk.com/en/products/gransfors-bruks-other-axe-products/gransfors-grinding-stone-of-natural-stone/


the island of Gotland:

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from http://www.gotland.info/language/eng/gotland-norr-information.php
 
Well, what a confusion. I would not want to run into the situation where I wanted to get a natural stone and ended up with an artificial stone. Now I know to be sure and specify which for which. They got it all up there in Sweden, the grey kind of sandstone in Gotland near the coast and if you're not happy with that, over in Darlana they got the red Orsa sandstone. Maybe Gotland stone for Gransfors and Orsa stone for Wetterlings, or Hults Bruk or whatever.

E.DB.
 
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