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Thread: Building a Navigator yawl
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22nd April 2010, 10:41 PM #46
To flatten the 1200 grit water stone I use the coarse carborundum one, rubbing the two surfaces together, rinsing often. The carborundum is only cheap and I've never flattened one! I guess it depends how hard the stone is, because you want a harder, coarser one to flatten it.
Failing all that, wet and dry on MDF or glass makes a good dressing surface, whether wet with oil or water. (good for the bottom of un-flat planes and plane irons too).
As to gouges Mike, that's a whole other can of worms for me especially since all mine have different curvatures, and some have the bevel inside etc.. and I don't use a honing guide of any sort, but bring the stone to the tool rather than the tool to the stone....and I don't always get what I want when I want it either! I tend to use small slip stones and I have a small diamond board (the size of a credit card) ...But I wouldn't profess a system good enough to be able to share it. For me, with gouges, it's all in the wrist!...and it's little, often, endlessly.
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23rd April 2010, 12:06 AM #47
Hi Rob,
Quick query re the honing guide on waterstones: does the wheel score the stones appreciably? I was sufficiently concerned about that to banish the guide to a very safe distance from the WSs!
Cheers,
Alex.
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23rd April 2010, 10:16 AM #48
The roller will only be a problem if it is pressed too hard, especially if you use the same forward and back motion, without varying its path. So it's no biggy, Alex, as long as you relax with the tool and let a nice fluid motion across the slurry do the cutting, not your downwards pressure.
And the stones are thick and easy to flatten if necessary, so when you start out it's probably better to risk a mistake by relaxing and being fluid, than worrying about the stone and being tense. Get the tools out of the box and make a few mistakes. You were going to do that eventually anyway; nice to have them under your belt. What's the worst that can happen?
Stones are sacrificial objects, cast onto the altar of our creativity, giving their lives in the creation of wooden objects Every time you sharpen a tool, a stone somewhere suffers for your craft . Craftspeople have to live with the shocking reality of carnage, abrasion and erosion Support the Waterstone Liberation Front (WLF) (Not the United Front for the Liberation of Waterstones [UFLW]- they are splitters)
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23rd April 2010, 11:50 AM #49
Hi Rob,
You've hit the nail right on the head! As soon as I get near a sharpening stone/knife combination, I start to panic and tense up. What's the worst that can happen? Simple! Like my reed-scraping knives, the blades will be ruined! I'll put up a photo of the worst of my knives when I've dug 'em out.
Got to beware of splitters: bunch o' heretics, the lot of 'em .
Still, I have read and absorbed what you've advised, i.e., try and relax into it, so that is what I'll do. Or try to do!
Cheers,
Alex.
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23rd April 2010, 07:02 PM #50
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23rd April 2010, 11:22 PM #51
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23rd April 2010, 11:48 PM #52
Just remember Alex, it's not an official hijack until we get an entire page of posts without him referring to the actual object of the thread
Richard
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24th April 2010, 11:43 AM #53
He's trying to confuse me Alex. He understands how little it takes to make me descend into utter silliness. (I've always thought Being Silly could be a worthy life-times work, but I get distracted from it. Not many people, after all, are still Goonshow fans
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24th April 2010, 01:01 PM #54
What what what what what
5 watts - he's not very bright
You're not alone, Rob, we just tend to keep it under our hats (we're teh silly ones who still wear hats)Cheers
Jeremy
If it were done when 'tis done, then 'twere well it were done quickly
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24th April 2010, 02:52 PM #55
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24th April 2010, 03:45 PM #56
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24th April 2010, 03:51 PM #57
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24th April 2010, 06:18 PM #58
Dry fitting the keelson and seat base stringers
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24th April 2010, 06:44 PM #59
Heh :). Another one here, although it's years since I listened to one. We've got a compendium of Spike Milligan's work around, including the Q8 Dalek script ;). Actually, that quip of yours seemed to be more "Life of Brian" than Goon, but Monty Python wouldn't have been Monty Python without the Goons' trailblazing (and that of Lewis Carroll, Edward Lear, Hillaire Belloc, and diverse Surrealists, etc., etc., etc., of course... ;). Must go back and look at the lovely boat snaps, I'm getting distracted myself, a naughty alex so it is.
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24th April 2010, 06:51 PM #60
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