Honeing Stones refurbishment

[lurker]

Rather than jump in on Rob H post, i thought I'd start a new one.

I've generally used "Scary sharp" because its cheap to get into, but had recently started looking at other systems. You lot don't help much as there is not a great concensus.

i was planning to shell out a wadge on decent stones (bought direct in USA). then I had another thought:

I have a range ( grits) of six inherited or given to me stones in nice wooden boxes. None are used as they are gunged up and not very flat.
I thought to myself whoever bought them bothered to make a nice box and they must have represented "the bee knees" at the time.

So I took a fairly grimey one - Degreased it and flattened on a concrete slab. Worked a treat! Now looking at the finer ones

 

[lurker]

I left this post half done yesterday as something came up :roll:

I degreased both the stone (which was a filthy black colour) with some stuff for cleaning oil off drives. Also the box.
The Stone is now brown & looks pretty much like a new stone, all the crud has lifted out of the stone and so it now abrades. The box is now actually recognisable as wood, although the degreaser has lifted the grain somewhat.

I'd never flattened a stone before, but its fairly easy. By luck the concrete slab just outside my workshop door is ideal :lol:

I think I now have a stone in a nice box that would have cost me £20 or more had I bought it new. Sharpens nicely and is a bit better than scary to work with. Next I'll try a finer one but its going to be a longer flattening job!

 

[SammyQ]

I have no doubt there are complicated and costly methods of cleaning oil stones, but one simple one is to suspend it over a plain baking tray in the oven. I used an old cooling rack and tucked it in @ 180 deg C for 10 mins. The oil/crud/polymerised whatsits liquidised and dripped out.

Do it while SWMBO is having her hair done - when she comes back, she'll think the smell is where they over-dried her new coiffure.....DAMHIKT.

Sam

 

[Tony Zaffuto]

Sam,

Much as I believe that method works, after I cleaned my oilstones in the dishwasher about a year or so ago, I'm hesitant to enter SWMBO's domain. Dishwasher worked great! But it took several hours of scrubbing to get all the oil-haze off the plastic inside the appliance.

I'll stick to oven cleaner and rinsing with very hot water. Safer than risking getting head in the head with a tennis shoe again.

Tony Z.

 

[SammyQ]

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Sam