got cheap stone need advice

I have this stone 6" Aluminium Oxide Sharpening Stone Duel Grit Knife Sharpener | eBay for the purpose of reprofiling the edge of a knife after going a little overboard with a sanding wheel on a dremel to remove some major chips. The issue i am having is that even though it says its 120 on one side and 240 on the other it seems very smooth and was removing very little material on my blade, i then used the stone to lap my old arkansas stone hoping it would remove any kind of defect the surface may have and had no better results, i then used a double cut bastard over the surface of the new stone hoping that going just a bit deeper would remove whatever badness was on the new stone. After all that i still cant seem to get it to remove material like a 120 stone should. I soak the stone before use and try to keep a little water on the surface but no matter what i do i have no luck, i know this isnt a razor hone but i assume some of the same info applies.

Wet -r Dry sandpaper would work better then that stone to set a bevel use it as a base for the sandpaper...

Ask before you buy, and save money.


Edit: just realized you meant Knife as in Knife :) :hmmm: I still might use Wet-r-Dry

Issue solved, i tried oil with no luck but it was a gift and i wanted to use it so my woman didnt feel hurt so as a last ditch effort to make the stone somewhat usable i cut about an inch of the end and used it to rub the stone to create a slurry paste and its now cutting well.

Please correct me if I don't get what you've said correctly;
You cut an inch off a 6" China Aluminum Oxide stone of 120/240 grit rating, then used the 1 inch piece to create "slurry" on that same Aluminum Oxide stone? :hmmm:

How did you cut the piece off, I'm just curious? :shrug:

If this is what happened, then God bless ya,,,I'm glad it worked out for you. :angel:

It is not big deal to cut it. Recently I shortened SiC stone as it was damaged on the corner. It cost me one blade (SiC) in my hack saw but it worked.
What i often find on those when they loose the bite that somebody used oil which was too thick and it clogged the stone. After a bit of decreasing and refreshing surface with coarser stone which is either same or harder they often return to their glory.

You are gonna think im an idiot but i dont have any blades for my hacksaw so i used an old file and ground through it, only took about 10 minutes and i got decent results.

I don't think that anybody is going to think that. However to go through normal size hone in that speed that is pretty impressive. I wish I have files of same quality as you have.

When the going gets tuff the tuff find a way :<0)