Float Glass for flattening waterstones

[davin]

I also use a shelf from a fridge, works fine for me.
Plus if you leave the door open, you get light as well !

 

[tekno.mage]

I've got a piece of old glass with nicely smoothed edges (ie not sharp) I use for lapping most things - it's just larger than a sheet of wet & dry which is handy. I found it when clearing out my Mum's house before she had to move to a residential home.

For longer things (like plane soles) I have several pieces of glass from an old wartime searchlight - they are wider at one end than the other (being segments from a circle) but are nice & thick and flat.

tekno.mage

 

[mtt.tr]

Matthew at workshop heaven sells float glass
http://workshopheaven.com/cgi-bin/c...ening&catstr=HOME:Sharpening:Scary+Sharpening

 

[JWF]

Go to a Charity shop and buy, for next to nothing, a mirror. You can either remove the silvering or look at yourself flattening the stone

John

 

[bugbear]

People are bearing in mind that glass, whilst flat, is not very rigid unless it's rather thick, I hope.

BugBear

 

[Benchwayze]

Watching the David Charlesworth DVD, he suggests flattening waterstones using float glass. Is that something I can get from a standard glazier/glass supplier? Busy at work so I'm going to ask Mrs H to get some for me and she'll be cross if I send her to get the wrong thing!!!

FWIW - I wouldn't bother Rob. Glass, unless you can afford the really thick stuff, flexes.

You can get as good results using 25mm thick, melamine coated MDF. You can afford bigger sheets of this, and it stays flat a long time if you use it on a truly flat bench. When it does finally wear, it's cheap to replace. It doesn't break if you drop it, or drop anything on it!

I suppose you could use tufnol too, but that does flex a little. Just like float glass.


HTH John