Naniwa split

[Zephyr]

Last night I was putting away my stones after leaving them to dry after laster honing session.
When I picked up my Naniwa SS 3/8 it split in half, and I now have one 3K and one 8K stone.

I suppose this is caused by oversoaking the stone, in the beginning I used to leave it in water for several hours at the time and this have made the bonding brake.

What do you suggest?

Should I try to glue them back together or will it be better to make a base for each one and glue them to it.

I do have some 4mm aluminum I can cut to the right size.

[Havachat45]

I'd probably leave them as they are and use the Steelex hone holder if you have one.
They hold hones really well IME

[ScottGoodman]

I am quite fond of the 2 part epoxy glues that is found in the push tubes. If it were me, I would probably go ahead and glue it to something to add a bit of support to the stones. I plan on doing the same to a vintage thuringian to give it support as it is only a little over bout 1cm thick with some bamboo or red cedar.

The stone holder like mentioned above is something that I can't imagine honing without: Steelex D1091 Sharpening Stone Holder NEW | eBay

[nicknbleeding]

WOW. Soaking them is not recomended. So that is prob what caused the failure.

[Zephyr]

I'd probably leave them as they are and use the Steelex hone holder if you have one.
They hold hones really well IME

I am quite fond of the 2 part epoxy glues that is found in the push tubes. If it were me, I would probably go ahead and glue it to something to add a bit of support to the stones. I plan on doing the same to a vintage thuringian to give it support as it is only a little over bout 1cm thick with some bamboo or red cedar.

The stone holder like mentioned above is something that I can't imagine honing without: Steelex D1091 Sharpening Stone Holder NEW | eBay

I got one of those, was thinking of maybe just glue them onto separate pieces of aluminum or hard plastic for support and get a second holder.

WOW. Soaking them is not recomended. So that is prob what caused the failure.

Yup, I quit doing that a long time ago, but at that point the damage was probably already done.

[nicknbleeding]

That sucks but atleast it was only across the bond line and not the center of the stone.

[pixelfixed]

Those steelex holders are ALOT cheaper from amazon,$15.99 as I recall.

[str8fencer]

Sorry to hear about your problem Rune, but really you were kinda lucky. At least they split in 2 separate hones. I'd glue them to some backing, aluminum sounds great. I got one of those naniwa combos as well (1k/3k) - mine split straight across the 1k stone, in 2 places. Heh.

[Zephyr]

Ironically, last night I went into the garage to cut some aluminum supports and I brought my SS 1K to use for measuring.

My workbench is pretty full, so I placed the 1K on my belt sander (I know, stupid as he**) while I cut some pieces of wood for another project, when I had them cut I was just going to smoothen out the ends and turned on the belt sander, forgetting that I placed the 1K on it the stone flew off and hit the concrete floor.

What happens to a Naniwa SS 1K when it hits concrete? It shatters into a handfull of small, some very tiny hones luckily I just got my new Chosera 1K, so there is no crisis.

I took a chisel and removed the rest of the SS and will glue one of the pieces of the 3/8 to the base.

[nicknbleeding]

Oh man that suck. Glad you have the chosera but still sucks.