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So, I had a chance last night to go ahead and do some honing with the Apache stones.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4ou7d0t6JY

This video wasn't meant in any way as a response to Keith or...

I believe Terry uses mineral oil for his cutting setup...but otherwise it's the same idea. He has a video of cutting strata on his youtube page if I recall.

On the topic of the stone, I've decided...

I have them and can just barely feel them...yes. It doesn't bother me all that much though.

I shaved directly off the stone this morning with two very different razors. Part of the shave was with...

It can be cut with a regular cutoff wheel on a 4.5" angle grinder. If you used a diamond cutoff wheel it'd be even easier. I cut mammoth tooth the same way. If you remember, I knocked down the...

Lol, it wasn't that bad, and after seeing how beautiful Keith's stone was, I knew I was going to do at least one side anyhow. I figured on two hours for one side though...and was pleasantly surprised...

Alright.

So, with all the recent talk in the YouTube videos of toxicity and stone prep and cost in regards to the Gila...I thought I'd go ahead and start completely from scratch on mine. If you...

That's a great video! Thank you for sharing it man, and definite thanks to Keith for making it. His method seems to be very similar to what I have worked out for mine. Clean with a high grit stone to...

We talked about it a bit on Facebook after the fact. I think he understands that. My understanding of it was that he was approaching it from a 'thorough review' perspective.

For the record, the...

I posted this in the Youtube conversation in regards to using the stone directly after scrubbing with a DMT, but thought I'd share it here too:




Hope that helps someone out!

That's probably a similar effect to what I'm doing with my high grit stones. You might mention it in the YouTube video like I did about cleaning with the stones.

I agree. I had the 'gritty' feel a few times, but like I said, 'wiping' the stone with another smooth, high grit stone (scrubbing with another stone works...I've used both of my C12k, both of my...

I had some slightly similar issues if you recall. What seems to remove the issue for me is to clean the stone with a Strata nagura before use. That got rid of all grittiness (which I thought was...

Terry's odd sometimes lol. I owe him money for another purchase (unrelated), and a knife he ordered to boot, and I sometimes STILL can't get ahold of him. And I have his direct mail lol. He's one of...

I'm curious about what linen they're using too lol. I have some inexpensive thin stuff I got in a 10yd roll from China. It's the only 'linen' I could find anywhere that wasn't hemp.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fxzaN7AXps

Just got a moment to take a video that shows my Gila. I put some other stuff in there too as the video wasn't made just for this site, but the first...

When I talked to Terry I asked him about that. He said that the information he got back from the people he sent them out to test was very heartening, and he thought it would be cool to have them...

My lack of experience in lapping stones was why mine took so long. If I had gone straight to the 220SiC, then used my DMT, then the other stones after...it would have been a more reasonable process....

I have a very small pocket translucent arkansas stone. I have to agree with kcb5150. The Apache Gila is HARD.

I know the feeling full well lol.

That's good to know. I actually didn't like the feedback at mirror smooth. It still cut, but there was very little drag.It felt like oil on lightly frosted glass with glycerin, and shuddery with...

I can't say with any certainty, but it produces swarf at a mirror polish pretty readily. There's some question as to whether that was diamond initially, but after that last flattening I didn't use...

This definitely has quartz content. But trust me, I've cut up quartzite rocks, two jaspers, and a couple that qualify as more chert, and this is neither. If you liquefied quartz, and mixed up a...

Lol...water dried up on mine in like 10 minutes!! The joys of living in Arizona :D.

My rock has some of the exact same fractures. Getting these things flat sucks!

Yeah, it killed my XXC and XC lol...granted they were pretty worn already.

It is very, very hard.

I considered (and am still considering) a lapidary. I just keep forgetting to look one up lol.