I have been experimenting with different lubes on my stones. I was surprized when different lubricants gave slightly different results.
Supposably the spyderco stones don't need a lube. They get clogged quick and are hard to get clean again. The scrubbie pads and powdered cleanser don't really do much.
For some reason I decided to use the kano kroil with the white ceramic stone to touch up my VG10 delica. WOW! It got really sharp! And it was like I could "feel" the flat bevel on the knife when it slid on stone.
My first experiment was using regular thick mineral oil on my smith tri stone. I had been using the smith honing stuff, which is glycerin based I think, it cleans up with water.
So I let the kroil sit on the spyder stone overnight and cleaned it off and it was almost totally white!!
The whole notion of lubricating something you want to use to wear away metal goes contrary to my intuition but there you have it. ;
Supposably the spyderco stones don't need a lube. They get clogged quick and are hard to get clean again. The scrubbie pads and powdered cleanser don't really do much.
For some reason I decided to use the kano kroil with the white ceramic stone to touch up my VG10 delica. WOW! It got really sharp! And it was like I could "feel" the flat bevel on the knife when it slid on stone.
My first experiment was using regular thick mineral oil on my smith tri stone. I had been using the smith honing stuff, which is glycerin based I think, it cleans up with water.
So I let the kroil sit on the spyder stone overnight and cleaned it off and it was almost totally white!!
The whole notion of lubricating something you want to use to wear away metal goes contrary to my intuition but there you have it. ;
