Thread: How To Cut a Chosera 1k?

Originally Posted by Utopian

Actually there is one distinct advantage to honing with the hone in hand. It serves as a self-adjusting shock absorber allowing the hone to slightly rock to adjust to a slight mis-stroke.

Touche', although still seems like a method I'd bungle in a heartbeat...

I hand hone a size 40 kiita jnat, my chosera too. You get used to the weight quickly if you hone a lot. I even hand hone with my 10" stones, it might look funny but I don't like single hand honing on the bench.

If i'm bench honing I always use my second hand as a guide. Either way gives a good edge, I just like the control you have with a stone in hand.

Originally Posted by mainaman

Carbide coated hacksaw blade under running water works fine. I have hand cut some pretty hard J-Nats with mine, the Chosera will be easy compared.
Something like that will work fine
https://www.amazon.com/Stanley-15-41...+hacksaw+blade

+1 they work very well and it will make short work of the Chosera.

I cut about an inch of the end of my Pro 1K using this in a hacksaw (https://www.bunnings.com.au/trojan-3...blade_p5668435) so that I would have a small dressing stone and so that it they both would fit in a norton blue plastic case for transporting.

It took all of 3 minutes, no coolant needed (though it did make a lot of green powder that sticks to everything like sh…, well you get the idea).

Originally Posted by mainaman

Carbide coated hacksaw blade under running water works fine. I have hand cut some pretty hard J-Nats with mine, the Chosera will be easy compared.

The carbide hacksaw worked for me cutting a hunk off a long coticule to have a slurry stone of the same material. It was a long slog with that particular stone though. Another time a guy was doing ceramic tile on a neighbor's condo and had a water saw set up on the lawn. I brought a 3" piece of coticule to him and asked him to cut it into thirds. Slick as a whistle I had 3 slurry stones in less than a minute.

What you want is an angle grinder with a masonry cutting wheel on it. You should be able to pick both up cheap.

http://straightrazorpalace.com/attac...a-1k-pink3.jpg

How to cut a stone - well i think that answers the question - with the hand saw

A hand hacksaw will work with either a plain blade (takes a while and the blade will be quite dull when finished) or a carbide blade (much quicker and won't kill the blade).

A bandsaw will do the job too, but will definitely suffer some blade damage also.

In all cases where a toothed saw is used, it would be best to cut half way through from each side to prevent chipping when the saw breaks through.

A wet tile saw with a diamond blade will do the job even better and will cut through in about 10 seconds.

Originally Posted by JimmyHAD

The carbide hacksaw worked for me cutting a hunk off a long coticule to have a slurry stone of the same material. It was a long slog with that particular stone though. Another time a guy was doing ceramic tile on a neighbor's condo and had a water saw set up on the lawn. I brought a 3" piece of coticule to him and asked him to cut it into thirds. Slick as a whistle I had 3 slurry stones in less than a minute.

Originally Posted by RusenBG

How to cut a stone - well i think that answers the question - with the hand saw

I cut a long Thuringian once to get it into an Ardennes box plus I had a slurry for it after I was done & I used a hacksaw with a carbide blade.

Wow, Thank you Straight Razor Place!

My honing has improved in SPADES. I am getting awesome edges off my coticule now. No problems to report except for serious HAD. It's killing me lately.

Anyway... I did buy a Chosera 1k, finally. I'm probably gonna pick up the 600 to make quick work for bevels, unless someone tells me that's a terrible idea.

I did cut the 1k to a 140 x 70. Works like a charm.

Believe it or not it was the most annoying thing to cut ever! Gsixxgun was right, a big waste of time. I still like my version, but it was a serious PITA. I had to go to home depot and use one of the customer-use wood saws to finish the job, I need a new hack saw.

When I order the 600, I'll pick up a hacksaw and report back. Thanks again guys, I really got the hang of everything. It's dark before dawn.