Thread: Wet Stone Cleaning Video

A lot of good info from this guy . He deals with knives but it translates to razors.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8f4Qsu8LiX8

More stuff to try .

I currently clean and lap my Choseras with the Atoma 400 after honing; and use the brown Naniwa synthetic nagura to prep the stones before honing. Seems to work, all suggestions welcome!

Originally Posted by JOB15

A lot of good info from this guy .

Not really. The rust erasers are terrible. Coarse Shaptons need a conditioning stones, better use some very low grit small SiC stones that no one wants and are dirt cheap.
If you are looking for an inexpensive "cleaning nagura" for the mid/finer range stones, buy a Rika 5000, cut it (very easy), enjoy. Works on anything, won't kill the stones.
If you need a "slurry nagura", get one of the smaller DMTs (600 or 1200) or Atomas (1200), work them on something hard to even the layer and you will never use something else.

He's fun to follow, but not now.

I just received the 2 rust erasers.

My thinking is that i want the finer of the two for my Gok 20 & Shapton 30k.

Lower grits i lap them clean.

Why are the rust erasers terrible?
Thanks

Too much variation in behavior from stone to stone and grit to grit. Requires a very good cleaning after with some stones. I've tried them and eventually gave up long before this video was made. I had these maybe as soon as they hit the market, can't even remember when I got the first ones. They are great for knives.
I also have the Lansky eraser that is also kinda terrible even for what it was made to do (Bar keepers is way better) and some other erasers. I would not recommend any for this.

I'll give them a bash tonight, see what happens and report back.

At the moment i clean those 2 high grit stones with Natural naguras.

Thanks

I keep old Scotch Brite sponges that we frequently change out from the Kitchen. My Bride is bacteria phobic, so we replace with a new sponge ever couple weeks.

I scrub the stones with the green scotch brite, it removes the swarf well with out removing stone, then a quick lap with a 600 plate and a rinse. Scotch Brite removes swarf well from stones that load up, like the Naniwia’s without removing a lot of stoneface.

I don’t use soaps on synthetic stones, for fear of a reaction, Bar Keepers works great on Diamond Plates scrub with a brass paint cleaning brush. Some stones are sensitive to soap, I once melted a hole in a Norton 8k with a drop of Dawn dish soap.

I run a Naniwa progression and have a Naniwa cleaning stone.

I will most likely continue to follow Glens way and it’s the way I was taught, use a Atoma plate (#400 ) before using each stone and just do a light figure 8 pattern and leave a light slurry on each stone, the slurry helps and lapping each time keeps the stones flat........... Been doing this for over 3 years and have yet to wear out a stone

When I first started honing and restoring edges, I didn’t want to invest too much in stones (that has changed owing to a short but intense bout of HAD) and bought a set of 3 DMT credit card sized diamond hones when they were on sale on Amazon. They worked quite well as slurry stones until I was able to get hold of a decent BBW/coticule combo slurry stone to go with the combo coti I had inherited.

The cards are an inconvenient size for full size stones, but work great to clean or raise a slurry on my 6 x 1.5 inch coti.

I still carry those cards in my go bag for camping. They touch up the edge of a knife or a hatchet very nicely.