OT : Sharpening Stone Holder

Brendan

Brendan

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I want to build a holder for my sharpening stone. It's a Norton India Oil Stone Yvsa has recommended time and time again. If I could fix in into a custom made block of wood it wouldn't slip so much but then the angles would have to be right so the khuk didn't catch on the stroke. Anyone know of good dimensions to use ?

B
 
All you need are two blocks of wood, a pencil, and a router. Trace out the stone with the pencil on both blocks, set the router depth to just a skosh over 1/2 the thickness of the stone, and have at it. One block forms the base, and the other serves as a lid. Glue a good piece of leather to the lid and you've got a handy strop. Cheers,

Sarge

edited to add: for your viewing pleasure ;)
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Oops, here you go http://www.laguiole.com/index2.htm
 
Last stone I had on a wood base, was simply the stone epoxied onto the wood base. Didnt figure the base helped much at all though, beside make things more awkward. So I ended up just prying the thing off.
 
Problem solved - I don't have many tools yet but it's amazing what you can do with a Khuk and a leatherman. Took a placemat I made Jill out of some oak that I scored from the joiners. Chopped it into 5 relativey equal sized pieces, glued them together and glued a stopper on the one end. It works well and in the process I have leaarnt how to sharpen - I actually got my GS to do the ole cutting paper trick - I AM LOVING LIFE. The reason I have never been succesful in sharpening before is coz I never knew what a proper burrrr was. I found out tonight, stropped it off and I can now safely say I better be careful of my knives now hehehe

Yipee Yah aye !!


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Originally posted by Brendan
...got my GS to do the ole cutting paper trick - I AM LOVING LIFE.
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All I needed to hear...

I can rest peacefully tonight.

:D

:eek:

:p


Dan
 
GS was pretty banged up from last 2 weekends and I must of hit a few stones or something as there were very minor chips to the blade - all gone and I can't wait to get home so I can sharpen my M43 - this will be even sharper as I now know what to do.

Tomorrow the BAS and thursday I am going to fencing - been looking for a sport which requires martial art like fitness and cat like alertness - here's hoping.

Don't worry Bruise

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Don't worry Bruise
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Keep at it Bruise, one day it'll just "click" for you like it did for Brendan. Kind of like riding a bicycle, once you get the hang of it you never really lose it. Congrats Brendan, I'm fairly sure that now that you've solved the great mystery of knife sharpening you're fairly confounded at the simplicity of the whole thing.:D

Sarge
 
Try C clamps ( couple or more small ones ) and clamp it to the table so it doesnt move. or mount the holder to a larger board and put a couple screws anchoring the holder to the larger board ( maybe with wing nuts so it can be taken apart ) then clamp the larger board with C clamps - than will move the C clamps further away so you can get in with the knife without having to shorten your stroke to manuever around the clamps.

Used to mount a reloading press to a bench/table this way. Then when done, leave everything together, undo the C clamps and put the press still on the board in a big box.
 
I've got a project to work on now - to make the perfect sharpening holder .. will post details

Thanks for congrats Sarge but I started my M43 by Kumar - if different kami's make blades feel different ... then hell do they make em different to sharpen. Kumar must have this blade worked to about 60 rc or something crazy like that, I coouldn't get that same burr I had on tge GS the other night. Got it sharp but no paper trick yet - will redo till I get it but first it's getting fed !!!



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