Great stones and finally I had something to show my wife to stop her rambling when my lot goes for airing.
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Great stones and finally I had something to show my wife to stop her rambling when my lot goes for airing.
For me the stone in the pine base near the middle of the picture is interesting.
Thanks Neil - I instantly feel better about myself. For a while, i was buying stones and thinking "it makes no sense that I buy more of these, I can't possibly defend it.
What do you think of the little yellow oilstone next to your charnley? I have one of those in a bench stone size, it's an absolute treat.
It's a great stone, Dave. It is a hard/translucent white arkansas, very hard and glassy and requires quite a number of laps. It's main use is for very warped blades - I have made one of the thin long edges semi-circular in section, so just one point on the bevel/spine is in contact with the stone at any one time. Some of the lower grade slips are rounded in this manner, too, so I can do some work on badly warped blades.
Above it are a kind of smoky translucent and translucent slipstones.
Regards,
Neil
Nearly all of them, Martin - I try to keep a variety of widths to work on different blades according to what sort of defect the blade has. The most used ones still have dried slurry on them, such as the yellow belgians, the blue/spotted-yellow belgian, the Black Rock thuringian and the candia stones. Even the very thin slips are used to sharpen the inner curved edges of some of my leather edge tools, and the large purple slate for dressing my half-round leather knife.
Regards,
Neil
Neil,
I think we all like your posts and are lucky to get knowledge about your experience with hones. So I hope you will go on posting and share your great knowledge.
Thanks a lot!!!
Peter