I have restored soft and hard Arkansas that got clogged and cupped with nothing more than flat concrete and a garden hose. Plus a lot of elbow grease.Hi Everyone, I was looking around at new natural whetstones and came across slurry / nagura stones for both hard black and translucent Arkansas stones. Are people actually using slurry on Arkansas finishers? Has anyone ever heard of this? My interest on these stones is more about maintaining surface finish on my hard black stones. I prefer a 600 grit sic finish on my finisher and have found that after a few razors the stones start to burnish out and require considerably more laps and was thinking that maybe rubbing them down with a slurry stone may prevent the burnishing from accruing. But when I found these stones it brought up the questions about are people actually using Arkansas stones with slurry? And if so has anyone had any success doing this and what are your thoughts about doing this? Any thoughts or ideas are appreciated.
Thank you,
Jason
I laid my hands on a small black at an estate sale for a buck, but it was cupped. If I remember, I used stick on sanding squares to level the surface. It'll leave nicks on the surface so finishing it is important. That can be as easy as applying oil, and taking a piece of steel and just rubbing it the length of the stone for a while. That will wear down the high spots.
It does sound like your stone is clogging (I've done that at least once). What oil are you using? You need a good sharpening oil (several to choose from)to keep the stone working.
From experience, don't try using cooking oil. It gums the stone from even doing it once.