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Thread: a better sharpening station tray
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27th July 2008, 11:44 AM #1
a better sharpening station tray
I've been spoilt in the past. My workshop had a double sink with a double drainer and I had permanently placed a large slab of granite over one sink and drainer. I use waterstones and found this a great set up.
Sadly, I no longer have a sink in my workshop and was dreading setting up a sharpening station. I still have the granite slab, but wasn't keen on controlling the water. I hate the idea of using plywood sheets/trays to contain water runoff.
But the other day as I wandered through Bunnings I came across a 'boot bucket'. (it's designed to put on the floor and hold wet/muddy boots). Its a large shallow tray made of very thick durable black polyethylene(?). It's roughly 700 by 400 and about 25 mm deep. And - coincidently - it fits my granit slab very nicely.
Now I can soak, spritz, sharpen and occaisionally mop up with out worrying about water ruining my bench and getting all over the floor. I don't even have to mop up much because what gets left in the tray evaporates between uses. And I've found I don't even have to take up room on my bench as the best place for it is on top of my Black & Decker Workmate. It's the right height for me.
Hope this helps for anyone else with a similar problem. A cheap and effective solution."... it is better to succeed in originality than to fail in imitation" (Herman Melville's letters)
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17th August 2008, 09:35 AM #2
Got any pictures? I've looked a couple of time in Bunnies and haven't found it. Which section did you find it in?
Sounds like just what I'm after.I think, therefore I am... unable to get anything finished!
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24th August 2008, 03:46 PM #3
Sorry about the delay in replying.
I don't have access to a digital camera at the moment - so sorry.
It was in the section near the indoor gardening stuff and the rakes/spades/pots etc.
It's a shallow tray - black - and flexible, not rigid - about 700mm x 400mm and about 35mm deep. It has slightly curvey sides - it's not rectangular. Works beaut.
I'm pretty sure it was called a 'boot bucket' - but it is shaped nothing like a bucket."... it is better to succeed in originality than to fail in imitation" (Herman Melville's letters)
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24th August 2008, 03:53 PM #4
Great idea!
I am in the process of making up this very thing. I will check out Bunnies.
Thanks.
Regards from Perth
Derek
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24th August 2008, 10:58 PM #5
Yep mate that helped no problems!! Cheers
Now can you help with me other wee problem?
Where do you score a nice LARGE section of good granite... no worries mate I have everything else just need the granite... cheers!!
ShaneBelieve me there IS life beyond marriage!!! Relax breathe and smile learn to laugh again from the heart so it reaches the eyes!!
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25th August 2008, 12:54 AM #6
Ding ,
I got a piece of black granite from a stone masons ,they normally make head stones and kitchen bench tops and the like.
I went in and asked for an off cut and they gave me an off cut 30" long and 8" wide.
Kev"Outside of a dog a book is man's best friend ,inside a dog it's too dark to read"
Groucho Marx
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25th August 2008, 02:26 PM #7
Yep - same here.
We were pricing granite for an outdoor BBQ area and he happily gave us a 'sample'.
It's 600 x 300 x 20 - just right for three waterstones and either a sheet of wet and dry or a strip of drywall sanding mesh - it sits in the aforementioned plastic dray and has room around the edges for various accessories (small engineers square, pencil, 6" rule, water squirt bottle, chux)"... it is better to succeed in originality than to fail in imitation" (Herman Melville's letters)
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25th August 2008, 08:29 PM #8GOLD MEMBER
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You can also get optically flat ?basalt? - black & no visible mineralization, it comes from China I think - in a lot of cut price kitchen shops - its sold for rolling pastry where you want a cold, non stick surface - 450x450 for $10-15 IIRC. Handy when there are no local monumental masons - they have been outsourced to China too.
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30th August 2008, 11:42 AM #9
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3rd September 2008, 11:25 PM #10
that's it
"... it is better to succeed in originality than to fail in imitation" (Herman Melville's letters)
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7th September 2008, 11:09 AM #11
$5 each ............. LUUUXURY!
Have just returned from Bunnings, Campbelltown (NSW), Fathers Day treat, and there is a pile of them in the right hand back corner reduced to $3 each.
Fletty
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