Thread: How to make a whetstone

Sorry for returning this thread back to life after such a long time (just in case I am bothering someone kk)

Originally Posted by xMackx

A Conversion chart for Abrasive to Adhesive ratio, the other is just from an old book.

WOW! Gelatin also... We were having just about enough with shellac and resin!

Originally Posted by xMackx

I have decided to make a thread to bring like minded people together who want to experiment on whetstone/hone making.

1. The synthetic Whetstone comprised of an abrasive, an adhesive, and sintering them at high temperatures just below both of there melting points.
You can use any abrasive from beach sand to Chromium oxide, but the most common abrasive in synthetic hone building is Aluminum Oxide. The most common Adhesive in barber stones is Shellac.

Synthetic Whetstone making:
An experiment in making whetstones - Page 2

This link is not working anymore, any backups available? Just googled it with no results :-(

I am naturally curious (yep: The internet is and endless path to nowhere for people like me) and probably not the most skilled guy around for trying these things. Where I live I can get shellac, very fine powder (alumina, chromium oxide, cerium oxide, and probably others) but very fine whetsones are difficult (though not impossible) to get. Thus: If this try has had any advance it would be great to know!

TIA

Originally Posted by MT4

Sorry for returning this thread back to life after such a long time (just in case I am bothering someone kk)



WOW! Gelatin also... We were having just about enough with shellac and resin!



This link is not working anymore, any backups available? Just googled it with no results :-(

I am naturally curious (yep: The internet is and endless path to nowhere for people like me) and probably not the most skilled guy around for trying these things. Where I live I can get shellac, very fine powder (alumina, chromium oxide, cerium oxide, and probably others) but very fine whetsones are difficult (though not impossible) to get. Thus: If this try has had any advance it would be great to know!

TIA

There are several People experimenting since some years now to reproduce Barber Hones with Abrasive content...

It looks that this process works well, but actually it seems that not everything is completely devoloped to the max. If everything would be perfect iam sure there would be some available examples around already.

I do like the initiative!

Originally Posted by doorsch

There are several People experimenting since some years now to reproduce Barber Hones with Abrasive content...

It looks that this process works well, but actually it seems that not everything is completely devoloped to the max. If everything would be perfect iam sure there would be some available examples around already.

Something tells me in the case of self made barber hones either A: the people doing it aren't interested in fully developine it, B: there's no profit, or C: they're doing the same thing we do with hones to begin with - testing and tweaking and forever chasing that %1, never satisfied with the result.

My guess? Most likely a combination of B and C, but mostly C. I actually contacted someone about barber hones he'd successfully made just to see how well they worked. His report boiled down to: "they did pretty good, but I have other ideas I want to test and haven't had time to get back to it."

I've been wanting to tinker with it myself. Maybe I can talk my buddy into letting me fire some ceramics in his kiln this summer, and I can try some clay bound hones.

Any experiment requires time and money thrown.
If you get good stones so easy then and it would make all.
I think that we give up too easily.

Hey I just came upon this post today. I live here in Dandridge, TN. Where is this sandstone you speak of???

If you clicked on the OP's name and then selected "View Profile," you will note that this member hasn't been active for over 2-1/2 years. Once a member...not always an active member.

So sad


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