Question about truing a stone

Thomason

Thomason

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Help me out here guys. I have a piece of plate glass and I have some silicon carbide grit. The instructions say to put the grit on the plate and "add a small amount of oil or water, as applicable". What does "as applicable" mean? Does this mean to use water if you have been using water on the stones or use oil if you have been sharpening with oil?
 
Your assesment sounds reasonable to me. Do the instructions say anything about wearing ear-plugs? I have to imagine that this would about drive ya nuts.
 
Add half a teaspoon and go from there. if it gets too dry, the grit cakes on your hone. Too wet, and it becomes a big messy soup!

Do you have the Lee Valley set-up?
 
Crayola,
Yes I got the items from Lee Valley. A one half tea spoon of what?
Oil or water? I use oil on Arkansas stones so I guessing I should start with a one half tea spoon of oil. It's the "as applicable" part that confused me.
 
What ever matches the lubricant in the stone. In general you are also better off starting with some fine sand and then moving to SiC, especially if you can actually see a curvature in the stone.

-Cliff
 
MelancholyMutt said:
go spyderco ceramic and never have to true again...
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Mutt,
Is this true? I have them, but haven't really put enough miles on them to notice.

Bill
 
With their fine and ultrafine ceramics, that's fairly true. The medium (brown) stone will eventually dish out, but it will take a long time.
 
I bought my first set (med, fine and Ultrafine)at the cutlery shop in the Copley Square Mall in Septmber of 1989. At the same time, I also bought a Coarse DMT diamond stone. They were recommended by a very tall guy pipe smoking reservist who was in the 11th SFG at the time... good advice for a kid just entering the ROTC program. about 200 knives and 15 years later, one of the plastic boxes has desintergrated, but the stones are just as good as the first time I stroked a blade over one.
 
MelancholyMutt said:
the stones are just as good as the first time I stroked a blade over one.
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Great, glad to hear it. I was a little hesitant about the price, but this makes it all better.

Bill
 
MelancholyMutt said:
I bought my first set (med, fine and Ultrafine)at the cutlery shop in the Copley Square Mall in Septmber of 1989. At the same time, I also bought a Coarse DMT diamond stone. They were recommended by a very tall guy pipe smoking reservist who was in the 11th SFG at the time... good advice for a kid just entering the ROTC program. about 200 knives and 15 years later, one of the plastic boxes has desintergrated, but the stones are just as good as the first time I stroked a blade over one.
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Did Spyderco really have the ultrafine 15 years ago? There hones really are great hones but if they ever do dish out I'd hate to try and flatten em, I think I'd just get a new one.
 
yes, they had the ultrafine... I bought them all in one shot.
They say that over time, the medium stone might dish, but I haven't seen it yet... it's okay though, a medium spyderco ceramic is only about 25 bucks... much less than a Hard Arkansas of the same size
 
The ultra fine is actually a fine that has a final polish to the top surface, if you laid them down side by side you'll see that the fine is just a bit thicker than the ultra fine, at least on my set they are, I fold some paper towels and lay a pad beneath the ultra fine to raise it up to the same level as the rest of the stones.
Tb
 
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