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   grizzz66 | May 16, 2007 04:58pm | #1

   hi bill

   instead of trashing your waterstones by grinding the radius into them , how about getting the stone or stones made for this purpose ?  i forget where i saw them at the moment ,but one of the more popular catolouge/internet sites has a VERY wide variety of these types of stones at what seems to me a reasonable price :)            just my 2 cents   good luck  grizzzz

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   Bill_Anderson | May 16, 2007 06:45pm | #2

   Actually, I am making these travishers commercially with a colleague (Elia Bizzarri of handtoolwoodworking.com who is a Windsor chairmaker), and so these stones will be dedicated to this purpose.  If anyone knows of the site the previous post was referring to, I would be very interested!

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   cdober | May 16, 2007 08:31pm | #3

   Bill, if you do go ahead and reshape some stones yourself, try the x-coarse DMT diamond plate to do it. I've formed bevels and radii on small oilstones and waterstones in the past - the diamond plate worked well to do it.

   Cliff

    

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   JAurand | May 17, 2007 04:49am | #4

   You might try making a wood form and gluing some extremely coarse sandpaper to it (maybe 60 grit)

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   philip | May 17, 2007 08:48am | #5

   If you have a belt sander fit a 60grit silicon carbide belt and hold the sander in a vice or stand.
   No belt sander- get one of those cheap course grade diamond plates.

   Philip Marcou