Square sharpening stone holder
Welcome! / Forums / General Woodworking Discussions / Tools and Tool Maintenance/Restoration / Square sharpening stone holder
Tagged: sharpening, sharpening stones, tools
- This topic has 7 replies, 4 voices, and was last updated 7 years, 2 months ago by Hugo Notti.
-
AuthorPosts
-
28 January 2017 at 4:02 am #308779
For a while I’ve been using my sharpening stones without a base, but finally got around to making one. I also use my stones for sharpening knives and was always concerned about losing the long edge for overhanging with the side-by-side design, so I came up with a design where four stones all have a short and a long edge. I was worried about how to hold this in place with a hook but figured I’d try shelf liner.
All in all I made some mistakes along the way, I accidentally tore some spots while routing, I tried finger grooves which it turns out are pointless due to the friction fit a few taps on the back with a mallet is the only way to get them out.
Probably unconventionally I actually finished mine with shellac as I was concerned about mess and figured this would prevent the swarf seeping into the wood which seems to work well but time will tell how long this lasts.
All in all, mistakes included I’m very happy with the result, I have a quick sharpening station with four grits (course, fine, extra fine and extra extra fine DMT plates). I’m very new to woodworking and this besides the router base I made only a week earlier was my first attempt at actually using a router.
Attachments:
You must be logged in to view attached files.28 January 2017 at 12:42 pm #308785Excellent idea! I like this because it answers the the same query I had about side by side placement like P.S. Maybe after 50 yrs I might be able to sharpen like Paul.. but until then I’ll copy your layout -if that’s okay?
Kind regards,
John28 January 2017 at 1:35 pm #308786For sure, go for it. If I were to only have three stones I’d still give this layout a go using a replaceable strop insert.
In mine I have my stones positioned in 90 degree successions, so I just rotate the board 90 degrees for the next stone.
What I also discovered is my DMT stones aren’t identically sized, so each of my recesses are dedicated to each stone making ir necessary to mark which stone each recess is for.
28 January 2017 at 2:31 pm #308788In the photo the one at the bottom is coarse. I feel by running my fingers over them and the XXF reflects light and feels like glass.
DMT plates have their courseness etched on one edge which all mine are facing outward so I can check there too.
If you wanted you could make a mark next to the stones. A nice little tapered groove sliced into the edge with a ⅛ chisel might look nice starting with 1 slot for coarse going to 4 grooves for XXF.
28 January 2017 at 8:22 pm #308790Neat idea! I only wonder – provided, you are using glass cleaner at all – if the shellack will survive that. If not, you can try a quick hardening oil polish, keep the shellack as the base layer.
Dieter
29 January 2017 at 12:30 am #308808It seems the shellac is resistent to the window cleaner I use, it seems to make cleanup easy with it just simply wiping off. I did apply furniture wax also.
I’ve been using windex and other similar brands. Trying to find auto glass cleaner here in Australia is about 10 times the price at over $20 a bottle so I stick with household varieties. I think these have no alcohol, maybe auto cleaner does.
-
AuthorPosts
- You must be logged in to reply to this topic.