Thread: Oil on a water stone!!! Are you crazy!!!!

On a stone like a 1000 grit, I would try this favorite trick of mine...

wrap stone in a few layers of paper towel. Place stone in electric toaster oven. (make sure paper towel doesnt pop up anywhre and touch heater coils)
Set at 200 degrees
After 2 hours, raise temp to 250 degrees
After 2 hours, Lower temp back to 200 degrees
After an hour, turn off, and allow to cool to room temp without opening the door to the oven.
You will find that the warm oil has migrated through the stone, and seeped into the paper towel
I know it seems like a lot of work, but I am cautious (perhaps unnecessarily so) of thermal stresses causing fractures in the stone.
After that, you can soak it in a bucket of soapy water, to help float out and dissolve any remaining oils.