From:
Jim Cosgrove <ve3jji@zzzzzzzzzzzz>
Date:
Thu, 10 Nov 2005 10:42:04 -0500
Subject:
New member
John Graham wrote:
Quoted text begins.Jim-- I abuse stones in Texas, my ancestral home. Canada is my joy and
occasional respite. We have several grades of pink granite, containing
large grains of mica and feldspar-- rather large grained, I'm told. And
several beautiful grades of creamy to pink fine grained limestones. Also
several types of heavily fossiliferous limestones, some with large
"opalized" seashells that make tough carving because of the 10:1
hardness of various areas of the stone. Texas Devilstone is what I call
the stuff..
End of quote.
Haa Devilstone, nicely put John.. The 'hardest' stone I've worked on to
date has been a Black Serpentine, a 3 or 4 on the scale I would guess.
In spite of the effort required to render this greenish black rock into
a worthy subject, it finished up like fine black marble when buffed with
a fine compound. A few of the 'Whale Flukes' on my web site were from
this stone.
The Bruce Peninsula in Ontario is built upon limestone and dolomite
(sp?) so there is ample supply of this material if I do decide to
venture into the 'harder' stone.
later all,
Jim Cosgrove
Jim's Soapstone Carvings and Sculptures
http://www3.sympatico.ca/ve3jji
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