My ramblings….. it probably best if you did something better with your time than read this.
I’ve been feeling board with sharpening lately. Two things: geometry and practice, practice, practice. Once you’ve nailed both of those, simply maintaining a sharp knife really becomes routine and mundane. As you practice and get better you can do this on really coarse fast stones - which you couldn’t do when you were a newbie. Then you just eventually leave a coarse stone next to the sink and kinda hope that your knife is dull enough to warrant some push-and-pull friction…. Noooope. Anyways…
So diamond plates a kinda the rage right now. Resin, vitrified, something, etc. But:
1) is it possible to make a diamond stone yourself
2) on the cheap
3) that performes as well as a much more expensive diamond stone
????
4) almost forgot, and it has to be 8”x3” because that’s what men use
?
?
So let’s say we take a common and cheap stone, for example like the Norton Crystalon Combo Coarse / Fine. This runs about $28 on Amazon.
Then you would want to remove all the oil from it. Bake it or put it outside in the sun. After that you would soak it in food-grade acetone or toluene or some kind of thinner. Let’s say this costs $5.
I would want to impregnate it with a hard resin that is mixed with diamond powder. Let’s say 5g of 60 micron on the coarse side and 5g of 3 micron on the fine side. The diamond powder is $15 each and the resin is $10. Now we are up to $73.
I would also consider adding in some Teflon powder to help reduce friction and gumming up. That’s $15 which brings the total to $88. Wow! Look at how much money we are saving!!!
So this would also be a double-sided stone so I can’t even calculate how much money you would be saving. It’s basically impossible.
Any thoughts on this? Do you think it might work?
Let’s discuss!
I’ve been feeling board with sharpening lately. Two things: geometry and practice, practice, practice. Once you’ve nailed both of those, simply maintaining a sharp knife really becomes routine and mundane. As you practice and get better you can do this on really coarse fast stones - which you couldn’t do when you were a newbie. Then you just eventually leave a coarse stone next to the sink and kinda hope that your knife is dull enough to warrant some push-and-pull friction…. Noooope. Anyways…
So diamond plates a kinda the rage right now. Resin, vitrified, something, etc. But:
1) is it possible to make a diamond stone yourself
2) on the cheap
3) that performes as well as a much more expensive diamond stone
????
4) almost forgot, and it has to be 8”x3” because that’s what men use
?
?
So let’s say we take a common and cheap stone, for example like the Norton Crystalon Combo Coarse / Fine. This runs about $28 on Amazon.
Then you would want to remove all the oil from it. Bake it or put it outside in the sun. After that you would soak it in food-grade acetone or toluene or some kind of thinner. Let’s say this costs $5.
I would want to impregnate it with a hard resin that is mixed with diamond powder. Let’s say 5g of 60 micron on the coarse side and 5g of 3 micron on the fine side. The diamond powder is $15 each and the resin is $10. Now we are up to $73.
I would also consider adding in some Teflon powder to help reduce friction and gumming up. That’s $15 which brings the total to $88. Wow! Look at how much money we are saving!!!
So this would also be a double-sided stone so I can’t even calculate how much money you would be saving. It’s basically impossible.
Any thoughts on this? Do you think it might work?
Let’s discuss!
