Do we know what market that would have gone to? Mexico? Spain?
Hindostan Info/Photos/ID Thread
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Probably Mexico/South America. Being a less expensive stone, I'm guessing they would have sold better there than Ark's or Washitas.
It's not a queer creek. It looks like one of those fast citing axe stones. I've seen another that looked a lot like yours and that's what it was. If like to throw one in my collection some day.
Here’s my little Hindo. 10"x4" and 2 1/2" thick.
Goodness! I could really use that thing for my pops old machete. I bet it makes crazy quick work of an axe, especially one if it's 75+ years old. That thing is awesome. Part of the reason i usually try to go for really old stones is because of the thicknesses of them. When you're holding a stone thicker than a brick you're doing something right.
Wow! So my little axe stone and 19 of its siblings still wouldn't add up to that honker!
I'm not sure when, if ever, I'll get back to the right part of Hoosier land to visit my downstate cousins. But if I do, I may have to make a pilgrimage to Hindostan on the banks of the East Fork White and bring home a chunk of stone.
Looks like you stole a bit of Stonehenge.
Id love to go on one of those excursions. I grew up with novaculite all around so for the longest that all I knew. I like my queer creek stone, I'd bet id like hindostans too.
You are very welcome. I was pretty happy to come across the pictures!
Hope great would that be for a tomahawk or an axe/ hatchet.
I should have been more specific earlier. When I mentioned my 'chair leg' stone, I was referring to this hindostan I found at a flea market. The thing looks like a leg from my recliner!
timwcic
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This is a interesting stone. Not is big as the cornerstone pictured above, but a complicated Hindostan. First one I rescued that has layers running in two different axis’s. It has the well defined horizontal layers but also has a second set of layers running in a diagonal, vertical orientation. A lot of personality in a 6 inch stone
Well, I think I finally got this one about as clean as it is going to get, though every time I think that some more oil manages to leach to the surface from deep in the stone.
I bought it having no idea what it was other than a blurry black blob, but I took a punt that it was a natural stone because of the rounded edges and chips. It didn't look too like an India or SIC. But so far it's taken a whole bottle of Simple Green, and it still has reappearing black marks.
I bought it having no idea what it was other than a blurry black blob, but I took a punt that it was a natural stone because of the rounded edges and chips. It didn't look too like an India or SIC. But so far it's taken a whole bottle of Simple Green, and it still has reappearing black marks.
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A couple of Pikeys
What's it feel like under steel? Are they a sand stone? One of these days in going to grab one of these after I get a Cretan/turkey stone. I sharpen a lot of knives so I could see one of those being a spectacular addition to the brick pile.
timwcic
"Look what I found"
Cool, bookends. That’s a label you don’t see every day
It’s more of a siltstone than a sandstone made up of microscopic ocean thingies I think. You’re a cool little stones and a good addition to anybody’s rock pile. They can run coarse or fine equivalent to a fine Washita on the high end. Of the ones that I have, the sedimentary lines are very close together on the finer examples
This is exactly what I was looking for, thank you Tim. You're always an incredible wealth of knowledge as are many of the other members here. This community is great.
I've read somewhere that geologists could tell the phases of the moon looking at the layers.
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