Silver sand from Loch Enoch was used for making sharpening s...

Original Track ID

SA1985.55.A4

Original Tape ID

SA1985.055

Summary

Silver sand from Loch Enoch was used for making sharpening stones, and used to be sold round the farms by a pedlar.

Silver sand from Loch Enoch used to be used for making sharpening stones. There was a pedlar, nicknamed 'Silver Sand', who went to the loch and loaded sand into bags on either side of his pony and then put it in a small cart and went round the farms selling it. Robbie Murray made his own sharpening stone by coating a piece of black oak that had been in the ground for about a hundred years with Archangel tar and dipping it in the silver sand.

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Scots

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SoSS

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Reel to reel

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Good