Thread: How to make a whetstone

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???

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