Thread: Thirsty Corborundum!

Not to sound gross or anything, but have you tried using saliva?

I took the plunge, and 5 min of soaking seems to help. I'm removing a little metal now, but not passing any sharpness tests yet...

I use a carborundium hone for my tools that need a course stone, I use car antifreeze on this hone. This way I get the fast cutting but no rust debris left in the hone when stored. Another benifit is it doesn't evaporate quickly unlike water etc, oh, it's cleaner too.

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Scott,
I have cans of Norton Oil for $4 and that's what is recommended for oil stones. Loading is a major problem with oil stones and the oil used makes a big difference. The soaking in problem is worst with the orange India stones. I recently bought a beauty of a conical slip stone that someone had written on with felt tip magic marker type pen. Usually it's no problem to get that off with Goof Off. Not this time! The Goof Off soaked in so quickly it didn't have time to react with the marker writing. I ultimately had to take down the surface (the flat end was where the writing was) on a DMT diamond extra coarse stone in order to get it off.

People have, in the past, put down Norton Oil as just being kerosene but that is just plain incorrect. The Norton Oil is a highly refined mineral oil that is also food grade meaning you can use it on kitchen cutlery with no fears of contamination. (It doesn't mean you can drink the oil...). I use oil stones and Norton oil for certain types of honing but not for razors.