Thread: Cleaning wooden hone boxes? [de-oiling]

Originally Posted by sharptonn

Perhaps a can of spray brake parts cleaner from the auto parts?

I've used brake cleaner on bicycle parts and the stuff is a great degreaser. I was also thinking of good old mineral spirits.

Acetone. You can always glue them together again.

Just to let you know there are wooden hones (as in Henk's book) and even fungi which you can use for honing.

Originally Posted by benhunt

(That's [wooden [hone boxes]] not [ [wooden hone] boxes] . Just in case anyone asks what a wooden hone looks like. )

Ideas on cleaning up antique wooden hone boxes? I've seen here suggestions for using Simple Green, at least for the hone itself. Would it work on the box? Elsewhere I've seen suggestions about using Murphy's Wood Soap or else MEK + whiting.

I have used with success a white spirit-based furniture polish. Put some on a rag and rub it thoroughly into the wood. While you rub it in the dirt will come off.