Georgineer
Stainless
- Joined
- Dec 27, 2008
- Location
- Portsmouth, England
A comment of George Wilson's in the Damascus Steel thread piqued my curiosity, and I felt it was worth opening a new thread for. Referring to a natural mined sharpening stone, George wrote "I have a very unusual one which is perfectly round in cross section,looking like a much elongated football."
I have an India stone and a Turkey stone which belonged to my late father, but have never given a thought to their origins, and particularly how they were shaped after the raw stone was mined or quarried. What would you use to shape them? Steel would be an obvious non-starter. Flat cuts could possibly be made with copper wires and abrasive grit, but how would a round one be shaped? How would you hold it and turn it? And how was it done in days of yore, before diamond-studded cutters were available? Can anybody enlighten me?
George
I have an India stone and a Turkey stone which belonged to my late father, but have never given a thought to their origins, and particularly how they were shaped after the raw stone was mined or quarried. What would you use to shape them? Steel would be an obvious non-starter. Flat cuts could possibly be made with copper wires and abrasive grit, but how would a round one be shaped? How would you hold it and turn it? And how was it done in days of yore, before diamond-studded cutters were available? Can anybody enlighten me?
George