Short update, am i making my own sharpening stones now? Norwegian slate from a roofing tile.
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- Опубликовано: 5 май 2023
- Just a little vlog about whats going on. A few new stones has arrived, and im heading down the jns rabbit hole thanks to @naturalwhetstones . shoutout to Greg for helping me out. Make shure you guys head over and subscribe to his channel as well.
And i get a little carried away, so sorry for tha camera shaking :P one day im going to nail the table to the wall, i swear. But yea NEW pond :D finally got around to it, and im very happy how well it works. No more flex, and a lot more control while working.
New videos are coming, so please leave your suggestions and feedback in the comments.
Natural stones are really fun. Sand plus water on a concrete step is doable if you are starting relatively flat. You don't need to make much of a surface to test it and see if it's worth the rest of the work. Do this with 5 stones one day, just aiming for a little runway for testing, then decide which are worth another round of flattening. In my area slate is available and it got me seeking out these metamorphic-type rocks in the wild and in construction dump piles. If you find one, they are quite hard and difficult to wear down! Many metamorphic rocks are like this, including gneiss or other interesting specimens....
So in the end I actually prefer sedimentary-type stones, both fine and "coarse." And they are just everywhere, at least in my area. Regarding coarseness, I found some blue sandstone with rather large grains, very friable, and I thought this might work as a very coarse stone. But after flattening, I found it to be actually produce a very fine finish. We all know a flatly worn surface made up of coarse grains is not the same as all those coarse grains having protruding, jagged edges. So this means many more stones can be useful than you might first think. See what happens if you rub it down to a finer finish.
Anyway this blue sandstone became a favorite, and it was very easy to keep flat. So don't count out stones that look more sandy, they can be very good for sharpening. And soft stones do have the upside of being easy to flatten. Natural stones also have cool properties, like many of them are fine grit but seem to cut very fast. Once you find a good stone you may become addicted!
A whole other level of weird obsession can come from the river silts that made the stone--they are very interesting as abrasives. Rougher silica sands substitute well for SiC lapping powder, and finer silts work for polishing and finish lapping. These are the same clays and silts we like in rock form, so it makes sense they work as ultrafine rubbing compound. You can also grind/smash down the rocks or save the mud you accumulated on your concrete step for the same purpose. It's a little loony but the idea is exactly the same as the thinking behind using a natural stone.
Natural whet stones is the best
Buyee auctions can be addicting, rewarding and heartbreaking at times😂
Buyee is a scary place 😅
I got into making my own naturals, super satisfying when you finally hit a good one, if you wanna really get into making your own get an angle grinder and a diamond cutting disk to be able to cut stone, then search around mountain and river arias to look for sedimentary rock, the ones that look like they are layered and split along those layers are the best or rather most promising in my experience. I look specifically for finer and slightly softer ones because they do a better kasumi so that makes it harder to find what I want but mess around and try a few out, I've gotten at least 3 or 4 usable ones over my attempts. In fact, one I found is my favorite over all mu naturals including 2 actual jnats
Thanks for commenting and im so scared of this new rabbit hole. Im definately going to have a decent look around this summer. Our area is really old bedrock, so everything is so hard, but im hoping i can find something a little bit softer. Always looking for fun projects :D have a great day!
Really enjoy watching your videos I have to say you get it done very quickly 🤙💥aloha from Hawaii 🤙💥
Thank you for the kind comment. Always wanted to go to Hawaii. Any suggestions for good places to visit?
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Yes stay away from oahu too much crime overcrowded overbuilt
The Big island is awesome and beautiful also Maui is great too much better to visit
Great video. Edge from slate is no joke. I got a small piece of broken slate on the street and results from it are one of the best edges I made. About a 6K finish with rough conditioning.
Slate varies a lot. Different grain size, and could be a soft or hard stone depending on how much metamophic transformation it has gone though. Since it's so cheap certainly worth messing around with it.
It's so fascinating how simple tools sometime makes such great results. After all, that's how they did it back in the days