Thread: help me locate stones, thanks

does anybody know where the distributor of the Chinese 12k natural stones are in china. a link or email or phone number of the distributor would be great. thanks

a link to the stone in woodcraft, Buy Natural Polishing Water Stone, Water Stones - Woodcraft.com, but i need to buy bulk hence i need the distributor.

and how about a distributor in Canada.... priced out a Chinese 12 (Woodcraft site) and over $80 shipped... for a $30 stone
I don't think so Tim...

Let us know if you find the distributor, Gilead. I've searched a bit and have not found it myself.

Chris L

Originally Posted by Chris L

Let us know if you find the distributor, Gilead. I've searched a bit and have not found it myself.

Chris L

thanks Chris, i have been searching for a while myself, but with not much luck.
i will let you know when i find it.

maybe you have some other links for good dark blue and yellow green stones.

thanks

Gilead

Hi gilead,

This is I think the contact information you were looking for:

More information on their website. Let us know if my lead is correct, and if your bussiness is succesfull!


For those interested, this is how I found them:

Browsing this forum as a newbie, I came across your question and it seemed like a nice little puzzle to divert my attention from razors (my is SRP addictive!) and brush up my kanji-knowledge. First, I tried to find a picture of the packaging of the stones. Then I tried to read and reproduce the characters: "天然水磨石" (tien ran shui mo shi - natural polishing stone) and "廣西" (guang xi - traditional form for 广西 Guanxi). Search on that brought me (eventually) to another picture of the stone, this time showing parts of a leaflet underneath. The words 'company overview' are just visible. Magnification of the bit below this promising caption revealed part of the company name "... Kong Wah Tat (Tai?)... Tools & Hardware Ltd.". Some googling showed Kong probably to belong to Hong Kong, and the Tat/i most likely to be Tat. I didn't get very far with this; apparently, there a quite a number of companies named Wah Tat. I tried with the Chinese too ("華達", "香港" for Wah Tat and Hongkong) , leading me to numerous addresses but without a clear hit. Thinking I might be making this needlessly difficult, I started anew with just the two keywords "wah tat" and "tools & hardware". Bingo! The very first Google hit solved the problem.

Great detective work! I don't see mention of any sharpening stones on their site, but that would just add an additional sleuthing by contacting them.

Chris L

Thanks Chris for your help,
i got one of these 12k stones the other day and unfortunately iti didn't meet the quality of stone i am after.
i was relying on all the good posts i read about it in different forums, but when i got it in my hand and used it, i was very disappointed with the way it worked.
very slow and the stone is also very dirty there is a lot of metal or other stuff in there.

but i do appreciate your help.
Thank you
Gilead

Metal or other stuff? I don't get what you mean. Did you lap the stone flat and smooth? I'll give you slow, but you can speed things up a bit if you create a light slurry and hone the first half of your passes with water and slurry and the last half with plain water.

Chris L

Originally Posted by Oldengaerde

Hi gilead,

This is I think the contact information you were looking for:

More information on their website. Let us know if my lead is correct, and if your bussiness is succesfull!


For those interested, this is how I found them:

Browsing this forum as a newbie, I came across your question and it seemed like a nice little puzzle to divert my attention from razors (my is SRP addictive!) and brush up my kanji-knowledge. First, I tried to find a picture of the packaging of the stones. Then I tried to read and reproduce the characters: "天然水磨石" (tien ran shui mo shi - natural polishing stone) and "廣西" (guang xi - traditional form for 广西 Guanxi). Search on that brought me (eventually) to another picture of the stone, this time showing parts of a leaflet underneath. The words 'company overview' are just visible. Magnification of the bit below this promising caption revealed part of the company name "... Kong Wah Tat (Tai?)... Tools & Hardware Ltd.". Some googling showed Kong probably to belong to Hong Kong, and the Tat/i most likely to be Tat. I didn't get very far with this; apparently, there a quite a number of companies named Wah Tat. I tried with the Chinese too ("華達", "香港" for Wah Tat and Hongkong) , leading me to numerous addresses but without a clear hit. Thinking I might be making this needlessly difficult, I started anew with just the two keywords "wah tat" and "tools & hardware". Bingo! The very first Google hit solved the problem.

Mmmm....Linguistic detective work. I'd buy that for a dollar!!!

Originally Posted by Chris L

Metal or other stuff? I don't get what you mean. Did you lap the stone flat and smooth? I'll give you slow, but you can speed things up a bit if you create a light slurry and hone the first half of your passes with water and slurry and the last half with plain water.

Chris L

i semi lapped it,

i am getting my DMT in a week, i will do a better job then.

i will post my results

gilead