King 700????
Haha... As the forum's no.1 fan of 700 grit stones I can just imagine your ears pricking up at this idea.
King 700????
How do polishing stones differ from edge stones?
Love those old boxes
Random buy
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Its in nice condition and will hopefully come in handy
I was wondering about the UK manufacturing. Thanks for the information!Don't you be coming after my old triangle boxes, yeah?
A medium slip like that I'm sure will be very useful, and it's an interesting stone in another way too. If everybody's strapped in then here's another interesting Norton Abrasives learning experience for y'all. Below is copied a post I made a while back on B&B...
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Welwyn Garden City is a slightly random town about an hour north of London about which I know nothing, except that there is a direct train from there to Hoxton hipsterville, and that in 1929 it was chosen* by Norton Abrasives to be the home of their headquarters and distribution in the UK, opening in 1931: Welwyn Garden City Heritage Trust - Gallery - Norton Grinding Wheel Ltd - https://www.welwyngarden-heritage.org/photo-gallery/category/36-norton-grinding-wheel-ltd
The reason for establishing a subsidiary company for distribution and production in the UK was effectively to exploit a tax loophole I believe; it opened a large number of potential commonwealth (and later European) markets for Norton to trade into, without certain tariffs that would have been applied to an American company. In fact I came across this information a while back when wondering why there were so many old Norton Washitas/Arks/Indias here in Australia, and then noticed that boxed examples tended to be labelled 'Norton Abrasives - Welwyn Garden City'.
The UK facility appears to have closed in 1982, we can see here the job losses being debated in Parliament at the time: Norton Abrasives Ltd - Tuesday 13 July 1982 - Hansard - UK Parliament - https://hansard.parliament.uk/commons/1982-07-13/debates/e674f997-1716-4086-b343-102ad523e847/NortonAbrasivesLtd
So basically... that's a lot of the reason that the UK (and probably many Commonwealth, or former Commonwealth countries) prove fertile hunting grounds for nice old Norton stones. I myself have found two old boxed Norton Hard/Translucents, and two old Washitas in the last couple of months for very little money compared to what you might pay in other countries.
* Perhaps my favourite bit of this story is the perfect nominative determinism that has Mr. Frank Emery as one of the team of high-ranking specialists sent over to find a suitable production facility site.
I was wondering about the UK manufacturing. Thanks for the information!
Is there any difference between the manufacturing and/or quality of the USA vs UK stones?
Budget is tight right now, but I wanted to try something new for pocket knives...my love for coarse edges with bite is growing....pocket knives in real word use benefit so much from this!!View attachment 182085View attachment 182086
Venev 3,5 x 20 cmWhat’s that then? 100x400 combi of some kind...
Venev 3,5 x 20 cm
Generally positive, more in the next few days. Today I am preparing for my next hospital stay...Aha! That’s what they look like then. Enjoying so far? Be very interested to hear your thoughts...
My Nano Hone 200 is getting thin, so I decided to get some other coarse stones. I just got the Suehiro Debado MD-20 and the Suehiro GC-3. These stones seem huge to me.
The MD-20 is a splash and go stone, and the GC-3 is a soaking stone. Other than that, I am not sure. I’ll try to write something about the differences between the two stones on this thread once I have used them.What is the difference between these stones.
After having used it quite a bit, I can say that I am not a fan. It dishes fast, way too muddy, slow cutting, and feels too smooth for a 700 grit stone. Smoother than king 1000. If you’re interested in it, I can sell it to you for a much lower price than what I bought it for.Haha... As the forum's no.1 fan of 700 grit stones I can just imagine your ears pricking up at this idea.
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Thanks for the offer, but I don't think the shipping costs to Germany are in proportion to the value of the stone.After having used it quite a bit, I can say that I am not a fan. It dishes fast, way too muddy, slow cutting, and feels too smooth for a 700 grit stone. Smoother than king 1000. If you’re interested in it, I can sell it to you for a much lower price than what I bought it for.
Great setup for big workloads. I often wondered if they dish fast or slow, how they are flattened
Do they wear unevenly? i would assume that those stones don’t need to be flattened.Great setup for big workloads. I often wondered if they dish fast or slow, how they are flattened
Where can I get one of these?Was talking about this in the thinning stone thread.
Shinko STD-180e
1000 grit (red)
180 grit (greenish)
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Pictured with the fam
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