Hindostan Info/Photos/ID Thread

[ables]

Question for the brain trust.... does this look like the layers are delaminating? Or did this previously belong to a fisherman with very dull hooks? The hard/ fine washita I sold(suspected llw) had some pretty deep grooves in one side(why not move around the stone) and I know for them to get there it took lots of time and someone using lots of pressure. That stone was harder than the ½" smith's "hard arkansas"(I'd call it a true medium, dead between a pike washita and norton hard) and I know it didn't wear quickly because I've sharpened plane irons, axes and lots of chisels on it regularly. This Hindo doesn't really have many visible layers, it seems like a pretty pure stone, but those grooves are on both sides. Seem kind close to the top though to effectively hone hooks on without eventually wearing one in your hand or belly.
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Those look like marks I associate with digging a stone out of a wood base. I have a few stones with scrapes around the bottom that have similar such marks and even made some myself trying to get cemented stones out. I don't know if I've ever see a hindo delaminate, all of mine seem very sound.

 

[Empire straights]

Those look like marks I associate with digging a stone out of a wood base. I have a few stones with scrapes around the bottom that have similar such marks and even made some myself trying to get cemented stones out. I don't know if I've ever see a hindo delaminate, all of mine seem very sound.

This one seems sound as a Washita but it kinda looks and feels like there's a 1/32" layer on top that wants to peel off. I'll glue it to a piece of wood if it comes off and is s little thicker than that. It's a really good stone and it cuts fast. Lots of sandstone is grainy, slow, crumbly garbage most people don't want but Dalmore blues, queer creeks, and this hindostan (at least this one) are fantastic stones. I think saurat is a schist but I'd throw it into that party. Fantastic stones for knives(they do good on razors too but most people won't try them for fear of ruining a razor, I get it). I always treat new stones on knives so they get the business and i can get a read on them before i lay a razor on them.

 

[Empire straights]

With actual effort this hindostan is really fine. It smoked this rusty looking washita(very nice strip top) that is a very good stone. I edge up the hair on the back of my neck with it pretty easily and those are fine hairs. I think I like it.

 

[Empire straights]

I think I might rough up the bottom side of this hindostan and try to set the bevel on a pretty old draw knife I bout a couple months ago. I bet I could do the whole thing on that one stone.

 

[HellGuapo]

My first and probably still best Hindostan. It was hidden behind countless years of oil and who knows what else. No before (months of soak/rinse/repeat) shots unfortunately.

 

[HellGuapo]

My other two. The small on is orange and a bit more coarse than the first one. Much faster but is fun to use. The other arrived looking like it had been spelunking in an oil well, so it has been soaking for a while. Finally it is showing that it was once a white stone. It is faster than the orange one, and my first impressions are the it is a ‘Washita finish’

 

[HellGuapo]

…although the uneven layering, specifically in the dark striped section, makes me wonder if this may be something else I’m not aware of. I’ll post better pictures when it’s dry

 

[Big Chad]

Nice stones. Both look like hindos. Post up some pictures when the darker one is cleaned up.

 

[HellGuapo]

As requested, here is the white one out of the latest bath. At one time I had the top completely white, then after the next soak, it got splotchy again.

 

[David]

Nice stone. Looks like one of the old Pike brand Hindos.

 

[Big Chad]

Should look nice when u lap it. I find them relatively easy to work with. Sic powder on some plate glass. Nothing like flattening an ark.