Thread: 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...

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Edit: just realized you meant Knife as in Knife 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?

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

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

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)