Thread: Lapping a hard arkansas stone

Anthony i just got out a piece of my broken hard arkansas and had a bit of a go lapping it with the tile file with a wet stone and some dish detergent i had a go and the tile file did a very good job taking a bit of with just a couple strokes some of the tungsten bits came off but it lapped the stone finish wasn't rough because of the structure of the stone but it had marks so i grabbed my silicon carbide stone and wet both stones and squirt of detergent 5 or 6 rubs and it was back to normal stone surface the surgical black is harder but they're rated on density so i don't know if it would be that much harder a tungsten tile file came from the tiling section of the local hardware they're made to clean up and smoothen and file away sharp edges of cut tiles if they can do that to ceramic tiles they will do it to your stone they're cheap so it wont matter if you go through a couple

Originally Posted by Alucard73

Anthony i just got out a piece of my broken hard arkansas and had a bit of a go lapping it with the tile file with a wet stone and some dish detergent i had a go and the tile file did a very good job taking a bit of with just a couple strokes some of the tungsten bits came off but it lapped the stone finish wasn't rough because of the structure of the stone but it had marks so i grabbed my silicon carbide stone and wet both stones and squirt of detergent 5 or 6 rubs and it was back to normal stone surface the surgical black is harder but they're rated on density so i don't know if it would be that much harder a tungsten tile file came from the tiling section of the local hardware they're made to clean up and smoothen and file away sharp edges of cut tiles if they can do that to ceramic tiles they will do it to your stone they're cheap so it wont matter if you go through a couple

Great! thanks for the feedback, that is definately worth a try and also the grinding paste since I already have a thick piece of glass I can use.
Cheers
Anthony