Badgertooth
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Ouch! I feel your pain.
Great title for the thread, and now I understand why! As I've been getting into natural stones over the last year, I have always wondered about the focus on lacquering the stone versus the tendency for stone (and most natural things) to have grain, planes of weakness, etc. Between the nature of stone and the pressure applied in sharpening, lacquer always strikes me as something that soothes the mind more than actually offering physical resistance to the stone "doing its thing". I know the Japanese have a long history with these things, but this is a case where all the lacquer in the world could not prevent the stone from shearing. If you build a dam for the better half, create shims to level the stone inside, then pour thick-set epoxy into it, then insert the stone on the shims, it should cure into a "mounted" stone with utility remaining.
Well. Keep the big upper half, and give me the bottom part
What solution did you come up with in the end?
One thing I HATE about this forum is you can't bookmark threads. Someone posted a bit back about mounting a high quality stone on a base and had a smashing picture tutorial of how they filled in an uneven back. I thought it was Matus but I've checked their started threads and can't find it.
" Someone posted a bit back about mounting a high quality stone on a base and had a smashing picture tutorial of how they filled in an uneven back"
IF I have to even the base of stone.. I wld use a soft rubber like play dough wch after 24 hours becomes solid adn hard. You can scrape it away.. if no longer desired
I wld fill up the hollow part.. test for evenness on a flat surface , turn it upside down and let it harden... Its www.sugru.com check it out. I also use it to color and seal the tang holes if they are too wide ..
One of the fellow members advocated using it in place of epoxy.. I hv not tried it.... someday....
Good luck rgds D
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