Thread: I did a copy of the coolest stone box Ive seen .

Well done Rob. That's a great looking honing stone box. The carving work on the top lid really stand out nicely.. That's a neat idea with the air engraving tool. Would save a lot of guess work trying to control the depth of cut.

What a cracker, really looks like part of an old school woodworkers kit.

Love those old style oilstone boxes Rob and you've reminded me again to get some perspex and replace those damned aluminium Stewmac dremel base and LMIs circle and rosette cutters that make seeing the work nigh on impossible.

Steve

Nice one, Rob, but you'll have to show us how you sharpen each of those tools depicted on the lid, with the item inside the box....
Never thought of making a pond in the bottom of my stone-boxes - what a simple, good idea! When you say "for later use" do you use the swarf in stains, or as a cutting compound?

Funny thing, but after more than 50 years of using oil-stones, I've just started trying out a new water-stone. I have acquired a few A2 chisels & a couple of glass-hard plane blades, & my luverly old Arkansas stones struggle to cut them at a respectable rate. So I am trying one of these 'hard-bond' water stones which doesn't need soaking (a 3,000/8,000 combo). It certainly cuts & polishes the hard steel much more quickly than the Arkansas stones do, but I'm still not happy having to work with water! And though the bond in this stone is much tougher than for the stones I tried many years ago, it is still way softer than any oilstone - managed to make a great ugly nick in the fine side of my new stone in my first session. My fault, of course, & I'm learning to be much more careful!

Cheers,

Great box. I really like it……..



Do you keep a messy bench just for photography???

Originally Posted by DSEL74

Do you keep a messy bench just for photography???

Call that messy? I found some brown stuff on my bench the other day and realised it was the bench top

TT

Originally Posted by DSEL74

Great box. I really like it……..



Do you keep a messy bench just for photography???

I try to give it a clean up in between jobs , Im strugling to keep up these days though , I'm totally out of space with the currant shelf and cabinet set ups and need a change around. plus there is always five jobs on the go at once.

Originally Posted by IanW

Never thought of making a pond in the bottom of my stone-boxes - what a simple, good idea! When you say "for later use" do you use the swarf in stains, or as a cutting compound?

Cabinet makers face paint when at war with clients or decorators who don't keep up their end of the deal by paying when they sat they will

No .

Every time I fit a lock I use it to mark out where the lock bolt hole needs to be cut, dab it on the end and turn the key .

Originally Posted by IanW

Funny thing, but after more than 50 years of using oil-stones, I've just started trying out a new water-stone. I have acquired a few A2 chisels & a couple of glass-hard plane blades, & my luverly old Arkansas stones struggle to cut them at a respectable rate. So I am trying one of these 'hard-bond' water stones which doesn't need soaking (a 3,000/8,000 combo). It certainly cuts & polishes the hard steel much more quickly than the Arkansas stones do, but I'm still not happy having to work with water! And though the bond in this stone is much tougher than for the stones I tried many years ago, it is still way softer than any oilstone - managed to make a great ugly nick in the fine side of my new stone in my first session. My fault, of course, & I'm learning to be much more careful!

Cheers,

Interesting Ian , I am yet to try these new blades. I had a water stone at home and just used my thin oil on it anyway , seemed to work ok.

I was talking with a guy the other day about cutting fluids for cold saws and I asked what the cutting fluid actually was , he told me " a type of thin oil that emulsify s with water . could it be a good one for water stones ?

I like my stones and have a few pretty ones as well as the daily users

The first on on left is a Black Arkansas , very fine.
Second in is a Turkey Stone , not mine, just a picture I got off eBay.I tried to buy it but it but it went for over $300 Walter Rose in his fabulous Book [ The Village Carpenter] describes their use in the 1880s and back prior to imported Washita's taking over. "Only a few men in his grandfathers workshop were the envied possessors of a Turkey stone " he writes.

The other Main stone used in the UK before the imports was the Charnley forest, If you were not lucky enough to have a turkey stone, the only other choice was the CF stone. To the right of the Turkey stone is a stone that came from the UK and I think is a Charnley forest , The last one to the right I know is a Charnley forest . The guy in the UK that I bought it from was in to them and also lived near the original quarry where they were taken from.

Rob