Thread: Setting the hone into a box. What to use?

I have few hones now on my bench and I was thinking what to use and not to damage them to set them in. I do not want to use puty as that would not agree witm mu Charnleys. Any advise please?

What about some of that anti-fungal silicone bathroom sealant? It grabs realy well and non-porous articles like stone can be removed without any damageby leverage. It is also solid enough to give a bit of a cushion under the stone, so it can be levelled before the silicone sets. I've use it for making glass tanks and the like, and it worked really well.

I've just removed an old hone from a box.
There was nothing like a seal or caulk.
Just the wood case fitted very well.
Guess that is best.

Some of the stones I want to set are not right angled.
I was thinking about sealant but if me or somebody in future wuld want to reset them to remove and clean them would be a nasty job.

wood glue? dissolves with water- makes it maybe less useful, but definitely less permanent

I suppose you could use blobs of blutack or cork shims to level the hone, then melt down some of the sticks that are used in glue guns, pour the goo into the box and drop the hone on top. Putting the lot in an oven would melt the glue again and let you take the hone out.

I've had old hones in boxes, glued in and loose. The stuff that was used to glue mine in smelled like some sort of resin (smelled a bit like pine trees) and melted in the oven quite easily. It looked like a thick, golden honey.

+1 on the Hot Glue idea.

I used hot glue to stick my Coticule rubbing stone back together after dropping it broke the original glue....I dropped it again the other day and no break, the Hot glue has a bit of a rubbery quality and doesn't get brittle.

I would do as Neil mentioned and squirt a layer in the bottom of the box and heat the stone in the oven for a bit to get it hot then just lay it in and as it cools, take a scraper and remove the excess glue.

With the exception of my Charnley Forest all the stones I have that are in boxes are just laying in them. I take them out to use them. I don't like the idea of getting the wood wet. Maybe it is far fetched but I would be leery of the wood warping and possibly putting pressure on the rock and throwing it out of flat. If I was going to glue a stone into a box I would make sure I used something that was not permanent so that I could remove the stone if I ever wanted to.

I think the silicone idea is a good one. You don't have to use it to bind the stone in the box, I'd think it would grip the stone but still be removable. If the stone has an odd shape, just apply the silicone to the box, wrap the stone in saran wrap, put vasoline on the wrap where it will contact the silicone, press the stone into the silicone to to mold it to the shape you want, remove the stone, let the silicone dry, and remove any vasoline on the silicone. I'd think the silicone would hold the stone, but the stone could still be removed. I recently did something kind of similar to a refrigerator door that has a worn gasket.

I'm making boxes for my hones and using small shims to just give the stone a slight pressure fit, don't want to geal them in.