can you flatten oilstones

[shim20]

if so how???
thanks

 

[Gary]

On a diamond stone? :lol:

Or abrasive paper on a flat surface.

 

[shim20]

tried abasive paper on another but made it so it dosent cut anymore,

 

[dunbarhamlin]

Most effective I know of is SiC powder on a sacrificial glass plate.

 

[mr]

Dry wall screen ?

Cheers Mike

 

[shim20]

Most effective I know of is SiC powder on a sacrificial glass plate.

sic powder???

 

[George_N]

Most effective I know of is SiC powder on a sacrificial glass plate.

sic powder???

Silicon carbide abrasive powder.

 

[Woody Alan]

OK there are esoteric ways and materials to flatten an oilstone, but if you want simple....Silver sand as in playpit sand, concrete paving slab, some water, elbow grease nice big wide figure of eights because it will wear the suface of the slab too. There are some who will say that it won't be true dead flat but if you make big enough cicles eights etc it'll be flat enough. It worked for me and my black hard arkansa done this way is one of my best stones.

Alan

 

[shim20]

oh i see thanks

 

[shim20]

OK there are esoteric ways and materials to flatten an oilstone, but if you want simple....Silver sand as in playpit sand, concrete paving slab, some water, elbow grease nice big wide figure of eights because it will wear the suface of the slab too. There are some who will say that it won't be true dead flat but if you make big enough cicles eights etc it'll be flat enough. It worked for me and my black hard arkansa done this way is one of my best stones.

Alan

thanks will give it a good a let you know how i get on

 

[Smudger]

This is how it's done (according to The Woodworker for May 1926)

Of course, you will have to abduct a small boy. Your local primary school should have some that are surplus to requirements, and most of them would never be missed.

 

[Anonymous]

Tried it, got bored after an hour with little to show for my efforts, binned stone.

 

[Anonymous]

Didn't have a boy though. P'raps that'd be where I went wrong, too old!!!

 

[Smudger]

Aha! That's why you use a small boy!

I wonder if it was bob-a-job week?

 

[Anonymous]

They'd probably want fifty quid today. That's if you can get them to do it at all.

 

[Smudger]

I know. And as to making them wear a tie...

 

[Anonymous]

I know. And as to making them wear a tie...

Standards these days! Not what they were when I were a lad.

 

[Smudger]

Says Mr Cholmondely-Walker!

 

[Anonymous]

Now then Grayson, a little less frivolity I think.

 

[Smudger]