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   Frank_H._Biscardi | Mar 16, 2002 06:34am | #1

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   Kerry,

   Look in the archive. I think someone wrote once about soaking them in Kerosene and then wire brushing them. The details escape me.

   Frank

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   IanDGilham_ | Mar 16, 2002 06:40am | #2

   *Boil them -- sounds crazy but it works.

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   Bee_Jay | Mar 16, 2002 07:28am | #3

   *When my corundum oil stone surfaces became too saddled to use I flattened them out by hand grinding them against a piece of plate glass using powdered abrasives. The renewed surfaces needed no further cleaning.BJ

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   Frank_Robie | Mar 16, 2002 08:37am | #4

   *I have found that if the stone is badly saddled the first step is to use a relatively smooth cement block with water to get it down to the stage where the plate glass treatment can "perfecto" it. Of course that refers to stones that someone else has "saddled".Frank

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   kerry | Mar 16, 2002 08:48am | #5

   *Actually the stone are not that saddled but are glazed and dirty may be clogged. Will boiling take the clogging and reduce the glazing?Thanks

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   MikeD | Mar 16, 2002 05:09pm | #6

   *kerry, I have boiled the stones with a little baking soda in the water, it seems to break the caking up.

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   John_Adams | Mar 16, 2002 09:18pm | #7

   *A brief scrubing together with Ajax will freshen them up. The boiling with detergents often removes all the oil (& parafin) filling the stone, and from then on, they let the honing oil go through them like a sieve. Twenty-five years ago, I switched to kerosene as a lubricant on all my stones with no clogging, and better cutting. Some very coarse stones work well with 50-50 mix of oil + kerosene to give it enough body to stay on top of the stone!John

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   john_bailer | Mar 16, 2002 10:49pm | #8

   *Hi, I,also, am in southern Maryland,near Hughesville. But in the woods. I just set up my shop and am looking for that first customer!! John

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   Don_Stephan | Mar 17, 2002 01:18am | #9

   *Recently noticed that Lee Valley Tools carries the powder and thick glass if you need them, and also soft plastic sheets that are supposed to hold the powder and speed the flattening process.My experience is that arkansas stones will clog or glaze over rather quickly. Mr. Lee's sharpening bible suggests using a flattened coarse stone to level finer stones.