Thread: What do you store your hones in ???

I have a big tub that I keep my synthetics in, just cover with cloth to prevent dust and small particles from getting on the surface.
My naturals are in stackable plastic boxes.

I let them sit until dry and put them back in the plastic box they came in. Nortons, by the way.

And, on a completely different subject, I'm drooling and green with envy over pixelfixed's lathe! Nice one, bro!


Marcos

Originally Posted by Snake

I let them sit until dry and put them back in the plastic box they came in. Nortons, by the way.

And, on a completely different subject, I'm drooling and green with envy over pixelfixed's lathe! Nice one, bro!


Marcos

Thank you,I love old american Iron.

Maybe I'm doing the wrong thing, but I keep mine in a sealed container full of water.
I haven't had any issues (yet) and they're ready for use at a moments notice

I've seen in Glen's videos that he keeps his in a bucket of water with a spoonful of bleach. If it's good for him, it's good enough for me.

@pixelfixed

I've a weakness for American machine tools myself - I'm an engineer that secretly wishes to be a machinist - and am particularly fond of circa 1950s to early 1960s South Bend lathes, and that one is a beauty. I have a small one I suspect is a Sears, but it has been through the ringer and I haven't had the time (or is it skills?) to true it up and put it in proper trim. Not to mention the missing parts. Much like some of my razors, I fell in love what it could be rather that what it is.

I have a wooden cabinet on my bedroom wall that shows everything inside through a glass door. I have my brushes, straights, and nice natural hones (eschers, coticules, jnats, etc) inside. The not so pretty stones such as Norton 4/8, Naniwa 12, and Naniwa 1K are in a drawer in my dresser after they dry.

Originally Posted by wildhog

I dry them and store in original boxes.

Also do that.

Originally Posted by Str8Raz0r

My Norton is dried and goes back in the original plastic box that it came in and the chinese 12k gets dried and put back into the orginal cardboard box. Both are stored in a draw in the shed.

Yea, that's me too... The Norton gets proped up sideways on the box it came in long enough to dry out - then in the box. When I get something finer I guess it'll be about the same.