Thread: Making a new honing stone...

This is another future honing stone, i picked up, that has all the colorings of red/yellow jasper, but the add claims its petrified wood. Im guessing it will yeild a couple 6x2...
God, i wish we had some geologist/mineralogist available. lol

Happy viewing,

Mac

They used to use jasper (among other things) for arrow heads and spear tips. Its mostly quartz and pretty hard so it should be interesting.

i was thinking i am the sickest one (HAD) but no way Mac you are in there MY FRIEND Welcome. heheeeeehhhhhe

Originally Posted by hi_bud_gl

i was thinking i am the sickest one (HAD) but no way Mac you are in there MY FRIEND Welcome. heheeeeehhhhhe

He he! I know, im 'stone-sick!' Ive already made arrangements with my brother's garage, so i can rent a wet stone cutter and get to-chopping. lol

Ive been neglecting about ten razors, sitting at my work station, for over a week now.

You guys/gals do make this whole thing really fun, though.

Thanks,
Mac

Originally Posted by ronnie brown

i wonder if you could lap it on a belt sander mine has a long flat base and the belts are 4inch. wide get it flat then ues a glas plat with 1000 grit would speed it up i think, but when i think i have problems

I have tried my 4"X36" belt sander for flattening a seriously dished stone, and it's a mistake.

An 80 grit belt lasted all of about 15 seconds....the stone's dust stuck into the belt and wouldn't budge....the belt would need to be wet first and be kept wet to prevent loading....I don't want that much water that close to my motor.

They won't get completely even either on a belt sander.

My plan is to use a couple nice, thin diamond cutting blades, then see if alot of polishing is needed...i do tend to prefer to polish stones by hand.
Jasper has a hardness rating of 6.5-7.5...similar to hard arkansas, so diamonds will be required at every stage, i imagine.
It'll be alot of work, im sure, but work equals fun, in my opinion.

Mac

Recently I had to flatten a few seriously dished natural stones (Charnley Forrest, Watter of Ayr, Thuringer and some slates) as well as to make my own hone. I have used an old linisher belt (original grit i gues was somewhere like 80 ish) on my piece of worktop granite that I use for flattening stone. Firstly dry often brushing it and getting dust off by slapping on the belt and later with water and progression on normal wet and dry to 400. On my own hone I used firstly normal hack-saw and after I run out of blades got cheesed off and got out a small angle-grinder and finished cutting with a diamond disc. With the same disc I roughly flattened honed surface and followed with the linisher belt and so on. I have to say that the diamond disc was a bit of work as it wante to chip the surface. I think a watter cooled tile cutter or high pressure water cutter would be much better but it did the job.

Adrspach what material was your other hone?

Mac my brother just sent an eMail regarding the jasper which says its very hard and dulls a diamond saw fast. Posted this in the other thread about Sham's hone.
You were/are on the right track with the jasper.

It is not jasper. The rock I used is from Cwm Idwall in N. Wales as I am trying to get hold of so called Cuttlers Green and this was a trial as I can not locate any reliable information about it (already asked few old master cuttlers in Sheffield, quarrymen in Wales). Therefore I am just experimenting with rocks from known quaries in the area. Pictures of my hone is below. As you can see there is a white line of inclusion going diagonaly through layers. I had to cut it off as it is full of sand and something what is probably pirite (perhaps gold both could be found in the area) and it was imposible to lap it.