Sometimes, I get ahead of myself. (Patreon)

It's been a week. As most of you know, I had a table-saw injury on Monday. It wasn't that bad, but I spent the day in the emergency room, got x-rays and 4 stitches, and I have to see a hand specialist tomorrow. 

Drag. 

Then on top of that, I was running up the stairs from my shop on Sunday, when the damn things just collapsed out from under me. No joke, the stairs just fell apart and I fell right through them. We keep an old washer under the stairs, so I didn't fall far and I didn't get hurt, but I did spend the rest of the day rebuilding those stairs. 

Then I had a drink.

But, I'm not the kind of guy to let these things get me down and I'm always thinking of new things to try in the shop. 

Just yesterday, my neighbor (who is re-doing his bathroom) threw out a neat little scrap of white marble. It was cute. I took it home. I was struck by how much it looked like a sharpening stone...a lot like a sharpening stone. In fact, it looks just like my very nice, bone-white hard Arkansas stone. I've often thought that stone looked and felt an awful lot like marble. 

Holy crap. 

Could it be? Could there be a good honing material this cheap and plentiful?  Just think of the video I could make!

So I grabbed a chisel, some oil and the stone. I did my usual thing, and with a beating heart, I felt the back of the blade. 

No burr. Nothing. 

I felt the stone. It was all torn up. Clearly, neither hard enough, nor sharp enough to be a sharpening stone. 

It was a good idea, but good ideas aren't enough. Ideas have to work, too. 

Tomorrow's another day.