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Native Arkansas Novaculite

Distributor of the World’s Finest Arkansas Whetstone Sharpening Products

Four hundred million years ago in a small geographical region of Central Arkansas, now part of the Ouachita Mountains, nature began the creation of a sedimentary rock formation composed of microcrystalline quartz called Novaculite. The word Novaculite comes from the Latin word novacula, meaning razor stone. Novaculite is a recrystallized variety of chert. It is the stone material from which whetstone and oilstone sharpeners are made.

Though Novaculite is a type of stone that can be found in numerous locations around the globe, the novacula stone formation in the Ouachitas of Central Arkansas is geologically considered, without a doubt, to be the finest quality in the world. Its extremely high-purity silica content exceeds 99 percent. This Ouachita Mountain Novaculite is the only Novaculite we use in producing the FINEST whetstone sharpeners you can buy.