Thread: New Belgian Hone

Originally Posted by Jimbo

PS - Sorry for the sandcountry.

No problem, very good story.

Originally Posted by Jimbo

Utopian, you need to take up a career as the guy who writes "morals to the story" - very pithy!

James.

PS - Sorry for the sandcountry.

Thanks for the recommendation but I'll only take the job if you keep writing the stories!
Here's a confession. Given that the extent of my knowledge of Australia is from the movies Crocodile Dundee and The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, you had me going till you got to the secret mission! Given that there are 4 more years till the next Olympics, maybe you should make your boulder dreams into a reality!
I've really got to get back to work if I'm going to have any chance of seeing my two-eyebrowed wife at all tonight. Thanks for the laugh!

I had a separated blue/yellow combo stone and simply glued it with a thin layer of gorilla glue and clamped it with jumbo alligator clips. That thing ain't coming apart again.

Originally Posted by dylandog

I had a separated blue/yellow combo stone and simply glued it with a thin layer of gorilla glue and clamped it with jumbo alligator clips. That thing ain't coming apart again.

The honemiester at Japan Woodworker once told me that he had glued more then one broken stone together with Gorilla Glue. Never had occasion to try it myself and hope I never do

Originally Posted by Sandcounty

It's 5" long, 1 1/16" wide, and 1/2" thick. The yellow side is very flat, but the blue side has some shallow craters.

To save you some stone and some effort, I'd like to point out that while you do want the hone to be flat, if the craters don't interfere with the honing stroke, then you don't need to hone the stone to completely remove the craters. I hope that's clear. Put it this way, if you draw gridlines on the surface and lap the hone until the gridlines are all gone but the craters remain, then the hone is flat and good to go. At that point, the craters won't matter.

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Originally Posted by Sandcounty

No, I didn't soak it. I am too embarrassed to tell you exactly what I was doing with it. Let's just say that I wasn't using it exactly as designed. [/quote

You and that welshman! always playing with it, if you guys dont stop that you'll go blind! youre right ... I hate you... and that damn welshman!

Originally Posted by Sandcounty

No, I didn't soak it. I am too embarrassed to tell you exactly what I was doing with it. Let's just say that I wasn't using it exactly as designed.

No matter how tempting do not use them as marital aids.

Originally Posted by PonderingTurtle

No matter how tempting do not use them as marital aids.

I'll try my hardest not to, but they're so smooth!!!

As an aside, guess what I acquired today? Another natural combination coticule. The luck of the Irish, what can I say?

PICTURES.......................!

It's only a little one, but the price was right. It measures 5 1/4" by 1 3/16" I'll have to wait for the clouds to pass to get a photo worthy of showing.