Sharpening stones

JD Mandrell

JD Mandrell

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Does anyone know where I can find a good old fashioned sharpening stones 6-8 inches long?

Preferably a medium and fine Arkansas stones.

Thanks
 
You might want to try www.knifeart.com they have standard 6-8in stones.

Some of the best stones I have came from flea-markets (one set came out of an old butcher shop) and they work great.

Good luck
 
I'll second woodcraft. The boxed Arkansas stones that they sell under their name are very good. The tri hone systems they sell aren't too bad either. Alhtough, the cheaper tri hone with the booden base, only has 2 stones you'll get much use from. The third stone is so coarse that oil runs down into it instead of staying on the surface. I use mine dry for things like reprofiling the edges on benchmades. The other stones are pretty good though. I oil them and have gotten shaving sharp edges off of the hard arkansas without progressing to a surgical arkansas,ceramic, or strop.You'll need something finer if you want scary sharp though.
 
Thanks guys, I had looked at flea markets also, but most of those I found were "bellied" out almost in to.

I will check out the wookcraft ones.
 
You can fix most stones very quickly by lapping them on a concrete block. When the surface is even switch to SiC lapping compound on a glass plade. Some of the larger quality hones can run $75 - $100. At a flea market the same ones will be $5. Even very dished out hones don't take very long to be ground flat. I have restored quite a number of them. Note as well there may be people who can cut stone in your area. For a small fee they will resurface the hone, and the total cost will still be far under the price of a NIB hone. In addition, in general, the older stones are of greater quality. The biggest problem with used hones is when someone does somthing like take a fine japanese waterstone and soaks it in oil.

-Cliff
 
Just for the heck of it, checked Knife Center for Norton India stones. They have the 6" benchstone, both medium/fine for $20. Just recently re-read something by Wayne Goddard. He said the fine Norton is excellent, but he doesn't care for the others. Believe Ed Fowler said something similar sometime. Course, those guys have grinders etc to do the rough work.

Lots of things make me feel inadequate to a degree. Ed Fowler re-sharpening a blade he has just purposely blunted on a Norton India fine stone went near the top. Something like 2-3 swipes per side, and super sharp. Think it must be like riding a unicycle or something.
 
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