Very nice stones guys! Love me some butterscotch! Tim and Duke your collections are outstanding! Those primitive cuts look cool too!
It is from Dan’s. I picked it out from a huge bin of primitive stones he had yesterday at the 2019 GA Blade show. Dan’s had a small vendors booth set up there. Lots of fun being able to hand select my stone.
That’s still a rather large stone you have. I think there’s something special about the primitive cut stones that speak to certain collectors for sure. Nice find.Man that’s a cool story. I picked mine via email with Kim. They didn’t have any monsters at the time, but she did pick out the darkest smoothest one for me. It gets down around 1/4” in some places, but the top surface was flat as can be and up to honing standards for most people.
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Blown away by this thread!!!
Timwcic, I'm stunned, literally stunned by your butterscotch candy store!! Question I always have is were they mined that color or get that way through some process. I've never seen a newly mined butterscotch. If some one has one please post it! If you have any insights to the butterscotch stones coloration, I'd like to hear them as well.View attachment 988878 View attachment 988880 View attachment 988881
It is from Dan’s. I picked it out from a huge bin of primitive stones he had yesterday at the 2019 GA Blade show. Dan’s had a small vendors booth set up there. Lots of fun being able to hand select my stone.
Part of my Arkie collection, Washitas in the back, Soft in front of those and an end slab Black from Dan's. the foreground translucent was also an end cut that I cut into a bench stone.
Man that’s a cool story. I picked mine via email with Kim. They didn’t have any monsters at the time, but she did pick out the darkest smoothest one for me. It gets down around 1/4” in some places, but the top surface was flat as can be and up to honing standards for most people.
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That’s a bummer. It looked like a super pure Ark in the first pics.Edit: Oh yeah, def a synthetic ceramic. Arks density = 2.7-2.8g/cm³, spyderco ceramic 3.66g/cm³, this stone 3.56g/cm³. I've had one of these before if memory serves.
Did you ever soak it? Any better pics of the color?The cheer myself up I decide to lap that possible rosy red, Since it was too dished for my taste anyway
Yeah win some lose some. Got a 7 inch washita and a frictionite 00 For 45 bucks in another gamble I purchased.That’s a bummer. It looked like a super pure Ark in the first pics.
For a hard ark, heavier is gonna be more consistent, since it's basically solid quartz, any reduction below quartz' specific gravity indicates a flaw (gap or inclusion)... for lower grades, higher density isn't necessarily good, since they're supposed to have gaps.Hmm so heavier arks are supposed to be better? Just weighed my convex ark. It’s 260g spot on.
Just did the math my stone comes in at 2.64For a hard ark, heavier is gonna be more consistent, since it's basically solid quartz, any reduction below quartz' specific gravity indicates a flaw (gap or inclusion)... for lower grades, higher density isn't necessarily good, since they're supposed to have gaps.
Just did the math my stone comes in at 2.64