Thread: How do you stabilize your hone?

I hold my hones in my hand. Prior to that I used the stone holder from Woodcraft.

I just use the blue norton box that they came in.
With my (2) natural hones I just put them on the table with some tissue paper underneath.

The Shapton ceramic pro stones come with a built in holder in the lid. The JNAT is a different story. It tilts a fair amount to one side so I'm going to make a wooded base with rubber feet and hold and support the JNAT with plasticine.

I can't sit anywhere in the house without a cat colonizing my lap, or a dog dropping toys at me, so I just stand at the bathroom sink and hold the hone in my left hand. Because my finishing stone is very thin I've gotten into the habit of just resting the stones on my flat palm, so there's no finger-whittling.

It's nice to be able to manuever the hone, I think, rather than have it at rest. Heretical maybe, but there it is.

I use a .5" cork base that I made from a round casserole pad, it came circular but I cut the sides off so it is a little larger than my widest hone. Stable, steady, cheap. Works for me.