Thread: Many hours of cleaning... but what stone is this?

Not in the least, is just that kerosene contains oil,seems like it worked.

Yes,

it worked very well, stone is perfectly clean. I did this as it was one of the options suggested by SRP members and work out very well. Stone is very clean. Now I just need to make it flat and even.

With some stones which are clogged up with crud it is easier to get the crud out of them by thinning it with kerosene and then degrease as usualy.

No idea what it is but I'd bet synthetic. I've heard oven cleaner works well to clean grungy oil stones but haven't done it myself.

EDIT; posted the above from my droid earlier today and thought I was in a different thread .... the one with the white rectangular stone ...... anyway .... none of the above applies to this stone but y'all knew that anyway .

Quick update,

dry out slurry has perfectly white color. I will send later more pictures when I will be done with stone preparation.

I have a stone that belonged to my grandfather and it looks just like that. It felt really smooth. Smoother than a Norton 8k, about the same as a C12k, but when I put a razor to it it feels more like a 4k even though it feels alot smoother to the touch and it would cut extremely fast. Needless to say I keep that stone for my knives. If you take something to it and try to sharpen it you might get an idea of what grit it is, but some stones just feel smoother or coarser than they really are. Just have to look and feel how they cut. I still have a hard time telling what grit some stones are that I have. I have one stone that smells and feels like a crayon.

looks to be a LI. if you want to remove the stone from the box you'll have to sweat it out of the box .if you have a pan or a pot that will fit the box's ends you could sweat it out. put the stone upside down over the pot/pan boil the water with a rag in the bottom of the pot/pan and wait for the stone to fall out of the box. those old stones were glued in with pine pitch.

Why even dick around to remove it?,lap it in place,leave it be for another 100 yrs.
All your going to do is take the sucker out, than put it back in.

If you realy want to take it out then before sweating it out try just simple tapping it either on the edge of your palm or if more force needed on the piece of soft wood. That gets them usualy free and does not leave so much mess in the box as it ussualy falls out with the stone and is easily scraped off.

I think I leave it the way it is. This is my best option for now.