Honing stones

[karfeef]

Hi all. Does anyone know any way of finding anything about honing stones? Bit of a long shot I know. I found 2 in a kind of outhouse in a Victorian house I live in. They are slightly different sizes, and currently black, although a brief blast of wd40 revealed at least one of them to be a brown colour.

I used one to sharpen an old chisel I had in an old tool box and it did an excellent job

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[bugbear]

Hi all. Does anyone know any way of finding anything about honing stones? Bit of a long shot I know. I found 2 in a kind of outhouse in a Victorian house I live in. They are slightly different sizes, and currently black, although a brief blast of wd40 revealed at least one of them to be a brown colour.

I used one to sharpen an old chisel I had in an old tool box and it did an excellent job

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You can either buy the lovely TATHS publication, or you can clean 'em up and post photos here...

A good approximation to cleaning is to sharpen (something) using very light, clean, lubrication, e.g. white spirit, paraffin, baby oil.

ETA;
http://www.taths.org.uk/special-publications.htm

"Natural 19th and Early 20th Century Sharpening Stones and Hones" by Brian Read and Doug Morgan

BugBear

 

[karfeef]

Thanks Bugbear, I'll post photos once I've gotten through the years of gunk they are covered in

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[rafezetter]

Thanks Bugbear, I'll post photos once I've gotten through the years of gunk they are covered in

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There's another thread here somewhere about reviving / cleaning the gunk off old stones - something along the lines of soaking it in a degreaser of some sort for a day or two.

 

[Cheshirechappie]

This one?

cleaning-gunge-of-oil-stone-any-tips-t76916.html

 

[karfeef]

I'll check that out, thanks :smile:

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