would you purchase this stone?

[Robster]

Hi all,

Am awaiting a pre setup straight from Krodor (thanks Krodor, am very excited) and know I need to hone it at some point in the not to distant future.

I have an old stone from 20 years ago when I was a teenager at school and as part of our manual arts class they had us build a box for our stone.

I've used it over the years but it is scalloped / concaved now. So I'm looking around. I'm in Australia and I found this: http://m.bunnings.com.au/OurRange/S...amond-Blade-2x150mm-Diamond-Plate-61f/5760471

What do you all think? It says no concave occurs. Is it the correct grit level? I'm a touch overwhelmed with the options.


Advice greatly appreciated.

Rob

 

[jpcwon]

The link pulls up a store locator, so I could not get it to work. What kind of stone is it?

 

[rockviper]

"The Eze-Lap 600 Grit Diamond Sharpening Fine Plate is a precision tool."

At 600-grit, you'll have a pretty rough shave, methinks. For touch-ups to keep your edge shave-ready (not for restores and stuff), you'll want something at least 8K.

 

[Proinsias]

Might be best asking some fellow Aussie's for the best deals down there. I don't think that little diamond plate will be much use to you, maybe for removing chips on some rather sad looking razors but not really a go to razor hone.

There's a lot of options. For cheap and easy maintenance once you've got the hanging of stropping I'm a fan of chromium oxide on balsa wood or leather.

For stones you could look at a synthetic water stone 8K or over. Shapton, Naniwa or Norton are a few popular brands. They tend to be consistent but will likely need lapping out the box and regular lapping ongoing.

Old barber hones on ebay are another option though how fine the stone is can be a bit of a gamble, they are hard, fast and made for keeping a straight razor shaving sharp with the minimum of fuss.

There's a huge range of natural finishing stones from dirt cheap to remortgage your house expensive that will get the job done.

Or lapping film, which I've never tried, but seems to be a popular option if you want cheap and easy.

 

[PapaFish]

I think he's looking to lap his other stone, not shave off 600 grit.

For heavy re-flattening, I would just get a flat surface (glass is good, so are polished tiles) and some wet/dry sandpaper, and have at it! The 600 grit stone should do fine at keeping your stone flat, but you may ruin it trying to flatten a real wonky stone. YMMV.