I am no razor user but it is pleasure to watch you work with these arkansas stones. I really enjoy the sound of the standard hard. Have a nice day.
@blistersteel
9 жыл бұрын
Thank you Stefan wolf.I appreciate that .cheers -cam-
@johnnyboydianno
6 жыл бұрын
Caleb this is my favorite video classic Caleb oil and arks
@blistersteel
6 жыл бұрын
Thank you Johnny, lots of blades passed over those stones . Good times.
@michaelshults7675
6 жыл бұрын
What grit of SIC powder on glass do you recommend to flatten a translucent Arky? Thanks, Mike
@mildyproductive9726
6 жыл бұрын
Hopefully, you will get a reply from Caleb. Personally, I have lapped a 6" by 3" raw trans ark that I cut myself. After the rough leveling with a diamond saw, I found 120 to 150 grit SiC is about perfect. (But it went a lot faster using a fine india stone [Norton 400 grit] as the lapping surface rather than glass.) Any bigger doesn't seem to help. They just roll and skate until they get ground down smaller, anyway. Once it's flat, it will work great just like that, with the 120 grit SiC finish, and it will smooth over quite quickly just from normal use. Which the bits get ground smaller almost instantly... this is NOT anything like a 120 grit diamond plate finish. More like 400. But you can go as fine as you want with the SiC grit, if you're in a hurry to get a high polished surface.
@michaelshults7675
6 жыл бұрын
Kenneth Lee I appreciate the pointers!!! Im glad we have youtube, because i learn alot from folks. I will have to get me some 120 grit, because all that i have is 80 grit sic. Would 80 grit be to coarse and ruin the finish of my stone? Ive never conditioned a Arky. Although i have conditioned/lapped a India stone. When i use the 80 grit on then it breaks down extremely quick and of course thats the nature of Sic to fracture and expose fresh cutting shards. In less than 15 minutes it goes from 80 to 150. Thanks, Mike
@mildyproductive9726
6 жыл бұрын
Yeah, I think it is pretty much the same thing with translucent Arkansas stone. It is softer than india stone, of course, but it is denser. It's pretty much the same hardness as the glass. So the SiC just grinds into dust really super fast. If the stone needs lapping because it is slightly dished, then I'd just use the 80, if that is what I already had on hand. If my "feel" is accurate, it won't cut any faster; it will maybe just be a little slower/crunchier, until it settles in. My favorite grit for this just happens to be my 150 SiC stick. In fact, I have been using 240 for awhile, because I gave my 150 stick to a good friend. He asked about lapping/cleaning/reconditioning a soft ark stone, and I wanted him to have the best. :) At any rate, I told him he can't really do anything to the stone that can't be fixed. Same thing for you. I have scratched up some trans ark with a variety of really coarse diamond plates for texture, and these will leave huge grooves. But SiC won't cut deep like that, at all. If you are worried, you could just grind the grit down a bit with one of your other stones. If you have a trans ark, I know you have more where that came from. :)
@blistersteel
6 жыл бұрын
+Michael Shults it depends on the condition of the stone. A badly dished stone might get 24 grit to hog off the high spots,then go to 80 to smooth it out a bit. Then I go to 220 to refine it a bit more. If it is for razors I go to 600 grit next with light to not pressure to smooth it out for the next grit which might be 1,000 or 1,500 grit loose grit. Then I take a large knife and run it on the Ark to knock off any embedded grit and smooth of any damaged surface texture. It is important that you do not clump up the surface of your glass with large amounts of loose grit or you will cause more issues than you are fixing. Use just enough loose grit of each grit to cover the glass plate completely without it balling up on the glass ,if it piles up it will prevent the Ark from getting flat .
@blistersteel
6 жыл бұрын
+caleb McCullough make sure to chamfer the edges of the stone to keep it from grabbing the razors edge later on.
@mudhole9
9 жыл бұрын
I have a translucent on order from Hall's, does that the trans fall before or after the black?
@blistersteel
9 жыл бұрын
I rarely use my translucent hones,I prefer my Surgical Blacks edge over it.however many use them interchangeably usually. cheers.
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