I am not familiar with a conditioning stone. If it is used to remove the glaze on a whetstone I would wet both and do tiny circles with it on your whetstone. But I am only guessing. Would lapping on a diamond stone do the same? Take my advice with a grain of salt, I have no experience with this.I have what I believe is referred to as a conditioning stone. I understand that it is applied to a whetstone when the whetstone glazes up.
My question is, how do I apply it to the glazed up whetstone?
I assume that it is used to remove the glazed effect on the whetstone.
Unfortunately I don't have a diamond stone. I am also totally unfamiliar with how to use a correction stone.I am not familiar with a conditioning stone. If it is used to remove the glaze on a whetstone I would wet both and do tiny circles with it on your whetstone. But I am only guessing. Would lapping on a diamond stone do the same? Take my advice with a grain of salt, I have no experience with this.
Thank you @Gamma, very informative. I do not have access to a diamond plate but I do have W&D and a few conditioning/correction stones. I have always just used W&D but not the stones as I didn't know how to use them or really why.
From what I have learnt from this thread, the conditioning/correction stones are used to deglaze and remove swage from a whetstone. This is also much like using W&D on my flattening plate.
If using a stone, it should be used wet (like W&D) and care needs to be taken to ensure that the flatness of the whetstone is not disturbed and that there is no cross contamination with grit particles.
W&D is about the same but does not require such careful consideration with regard to disturbing flatness.
Is all that about right? Any other things to take into consideration?
I made a 1k correction swarf removing stone out of my King 1K.
works well for cleaning up any of my synth stone. I chamfered the edges with a file......and relapped on granite with WD.
I just keep her setting in a red solo cup......when working.
camo
I forgot to add, I found that the constone is much easier to use than W&D if all you want to do is deglaze a whetstone. I wouldn't use a constone to try and flatten a whetstone. That's what my W&D with a flat substrate is for.
I have exactly the same, a chunk of King 1k that sits in a little tub by my sink.
yeah but.......
@Steve56 ........but you did take a black sharpie and pencil in a Gamma's tomo nagura character on it????? (yep I did for humors sake)
camo