Steve56
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Cool stone David!
Rosy Red Washita
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I’ve actually bought two rosy reds since this post, honestly still haven’t really put them through any real test. They are nothing like that red translucent though. I’ll check if they are translucent at all but I doubt it.
Just checked both, exactly as translucent as your average lily white... as in, a strong flashlight held right at the edge might penetrate a few mm, but not translucent in any real sense.
Just checked both, exactly as translucent as your average lily white... as in, a strong flashlight held right at the edge might penetrate a few mm, but not translucent in any real sense.
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Two? I knew you had the one with the side label, but what is the second one? Is it labeled?
timwcic
"Look what I found"
After months of being on my work table, I started playing with my Rosy Red. I lapped it at the same time with a Lily White. Finished both on a 140 Atoma. They both have different characteristics. The longer stone, a Lily is soft with a fine grit action. The Red is a harder stone, with a fine-tight grain but shows its teeth while cutting. I put them thru their paces putting a new bevel on a pair of chisels. Both are fast, but the Red is a bit faster. One of the chisels shows the wire edge before I removed it. The polished edge has the same hazy mirrored look between the two. After cleaning up, both shaved arm hair and ate wood
I bought a boxed one. No back label, but it had an end label (one of the soft/hard ones).
Looking at a few now, I suspect I might’ve had and sold a number of unlabeled ones in the past. I always took them for #1 grades Because of the orange flecks but it’s possible that they were all Rosy Red.
I also want a Rosy Red washita, no one sells?
Ebay or a wtb in the bst are your best bets..
By the way, Lily White has 2 varieties:
1)Fine medium hard grit
2)Soft fast cutting grit
Does Rosy Red have this classification?
1)Fine medium hard grit
2)Soft fast cutting grit
Does Rosy Red have this classification?
I saw a diamond-shaped label on the end of one of them, but it didn't say anything about it.
Mine has a “fine medium” label iirc. I’ll check when I’m home.
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I don’t recall seeing end labels on rosy reds but I could be wrong.
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That’s neat. Never seen that before. Thanks for posting it.
That is a old one. I missed a couple of those. Nice catch!
It's not my stone
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I've been doing some reading about these stones lately trying to figure out why you see so few of them these days. I know they are softer, but they're not that much softer that a soft Lily White, and you see those all the time with labels intact. Some of the old catalogs I found actually list them before the Lily White, and tout them as a best all around stone for general use, and all of the catalogs that I found (over a dozen) have the Rosy Reds and Lily Whites priced the same. Neat stuff. Info on the Rosy Red Quarry has been limited so far but I hope to dig something up eventually.
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No I haven't tried them but it might be worth a shot.
timwcic
"Look what I found"
Years ago I met a old timer who was retired from Pike. He told me that the Pike Pit for white and red stones is now flooded. It was flooded by the Blakely Mountain Dam on the Ouachita River. It was about a dozen miles N.W. of Hot Springs. He told a good tale but I have never found anything in writing to confirm his story
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