Wow. I just made a post about the same thing. I should have looked first. LMAO
Made me think of business blaze.Big brain right there. VCool.
You should buy some of those white towels. They have hundreds in a big plastic bag on amazon for hardly anything. My sharpening setup isn't complete without them.So while I have a variety of stuff (still fairly new to water stones so mostly oil and Arkansas stones), I've consolidated my most used stuff into a bin that serves as both storage and sharpening support. Might also be a decent example of not having to spend a ton to get a good setup.
This is more or less the kit:
There's a mix of oil stones, diamond, Arkansas and water stones. There's rags and a couple strops that go in there as well. It's just a plastic bin that we already had. It has a lid that can be secured onto it if I wanted to take it somewhere but I have a different, smaller kit for that.
The setup starts with this silicone pad I got out of a big bin at Bed, Bath and Beyond. Maybe for hot stuff??? I just grabbed it to be an anti-skid mat. That goes on top of my cutting board:
Pull what you need out of the bin and set it on the pad (towel would work too):
The bin gets covered in a towel to prevent sliding of the next piece which is a 17"x14" flat baking sheet that again, we already had:
Since I already them, and since they work very well, my oil stones still do the bulk of my coarse work. I do need a coarser water stone for thinning but that will come in time. I use the paper towel in the universal stone holder to prevent any drips onto pan. You don't need much oil! When done properly, I find oil stones actually less messy than water stones. But you do want to be mindful of never getting oil onto your water stones. I even use separate rags and keep them in bags. Anyway, Norton India Fine had this new F. Dick in shape in no time:
And yes, I have used the oil stones on some of my Japanese knives. They work just fine. I don't really care for them for thinning though as the oil is just too thick and "sticky". Sandpaper is a better substitute for that work. But they will grind in an edge just fine.
And then for water stones (Shapton Glass 2000):
And save them napkins from takeout/delivery:
This setup puts the stone about 11" above the counter and is very comfortable. No neck pain and very natural arm movement.
How much did you pay for the trolley you need to get that bag from place to place?This is what I bring with me.
live in a one room loft in Brooklyn, space is always an issue
splash and go, shapton pro 1000, 2000, 5000 and jns 300. There’s a leather strop on the next shelf up
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soakers
Gesshin 400,2000,6000, king hyper1000, generic 220 sandpaper in the fedex envelopes View attachment 125704
stone holder on silpat jelly roll pan granite block sandwich View attachment 125705
you guys with basements, you don’t know how luxurious that looks!
Yeah it's a bit heavy. Must be 70 pounds at least. I'll weight it one day. Thankfully it has wheels.How much did you pay for the trolley you need to get that bag from place to place?
Spare bedroom? What is this, Nelson, Lawrence and Stringer Rockefeller?My basement workshop is definitely still a work in progress. But I gotta say that so far I like it a lot better than my spare bedroom setup in my Boston apartment (as does the wife).
Spare bedroom? What is this, Nelson, Lawrence and Stringer Rockefeller?
Well there was only two bedrooms and the other one was already my partner's office, the home gym, and our actual bedroom. So this one had to be the guest bedroom/knife workshop. But it wasn't exactly a fancy apartment. Just a 2 bedroom flat by the airport.
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Man, children love knives.It made it easy to say the bedroom wasn't child safe
i just store mine like this
Mine. Which I posted in another thread. I figured I might as well post here too, but with better lighting.
We've got it closed here.
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Open' the pocket on the top flap is where I keep my cardboard for strops, and various #'s of steel wool
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Here's the right side. I've got pliers, files, chisels, bit drivers, a straight edge, and wire brushes in there.
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The front pocket. It has stropping compounds, fingerstones, natural stone slurry, various epoxies and contact cement, sic powder, and diamond dremel bits. Then sandpaper in the bottom pocket.
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This is the left side. It has pivot lube, thread locker, allen keys, driver bits, dremel bits, and my dremel lite.
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Then we have the main compartment. Towards the front are all my synthetic stones, strips, and diamond plates. The middle has natural stones, the back has some 3 in 1, magnifying headband thing, sink bridge, towels, bar keepers friend, a precision file set, a sponge, a socket wrench set, and a clamp.
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I should add, I sharpen on the weekends for money. This is what I bring with me. It has everything I can think of that I might need for pretty much any blade. It's good for finishing, fixing, and sharpening.
Does the Kitayama 4k go by another name? What do you think of that stone?i just store mine like this
Does the Kitayama 4k go by another name? What do you think of that stone?
Perfect, thanks.think its the same as bester 4k.
its a quite soft feeling resionoid i think. its easy to cut into it by mistake.
splash and go. so so kasumi.
slower than a glass 4k. more polishing effect too.
doesn't seem to wear that fast though. its not a muddy stone.
its a nice contrast to my glass 4k i think. using shaptons all the time gets boring after a while.
That's awesome!I just finished this sharpening cabinet for my workshop. It’s all teak except for the shelves, drawer bottoms, and the plexiglass in the top.
Apart from a few JNS synthetics and a couple coticules, it’s all jnats.
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That's awesome!
Dry sink cabinet sure enough.
I bought it at a garage sale. It looks like maybe it used to be a sample bag for make up, or maybe something likethat. .Very clever this! Is it any specific type of bag? Looks a bit like the kind of thing I used when taking sample bottles of wine around town, but mine didn’t really have all those handy other compartments...
Flip the screws and use wing nuts?View attachment 133043
fiddling with the screws every time you switch a stone is a bit of a pain.
Yes, I use wing nuts but still... I want as less fuss as possible... the minimalist approachFlip the screws and use wing nuts?
Whatever works for you is fine! But you're right, that's what's the forum is for, so that we nuts can help other nuts with their problemsYou people are just a little insane. Or a lot… jury’s still out
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