King Waterstone Question

Re: King Waterstone Question

Derek Cohen (in Perth, Australia)

>Hi Derrell

I suggest that you get a translation. What is written is the password to a Nigerian bank account that has been taken out in your name. Only you can open this one ...

Yeah, right! No, nothing special to be concerned about. I have the King 8000 Gold as well and, if you are experienced with waterstones, then it is straight forward to use (mist with water before use, and keep clean and dry inbetween). It is a very nice stone.

Regards from Perth

Derek

Re: King Waterstone Question

ThomD

>It is a great stone, as good as any I have used. I've used them both permanently in a bucket, and with a spritz of water. A cheapo nagura is good to keep the surface free cutting. If the edges are sharp, rub the corners down until they have a visible bevel, or cracking is more likely. When I used mine the most, I used to have to jump from about 1200 to 8000 so I had a 6000 I think as a prep stone. This really is a polishing stone, so you need either a good gig for a micro bevel, or a pre-polishing stone, or some patience.

Re: King Waterstone Question

Dave Mount

>I'm working from memory here, but I believe there is one difference with the 8000 stone in that they want you to store it dry rather than wet. 4000 and below you can store wet or dry.

For use, just add some water to the top -- you don't have to soak it the way they recommend for the lower grits.

Again, working from memory here. You might check the LV site, they have tech info for many of their products and might for this one.

You'll like having the finer grit stone.

Dave

Re: King Waterstone Question

ThomD

>That's why I said I had stored it both ways. You are correct that at one time it was said it would fall apart or be damaged if it was stored wet. Then someone like maybe Robert Majors came back from Japan and said that various experts he was in contact with recomended storing it wet. I never had any problems with storing it wet after hearing it was OK to try it, or letting it dry off after a long time in the wet. It seems to work better when kept wet, galls less, and cuts more freely, but not by all that much. By storing I mean storing between uses, not long term abandonment of months or years. As with any water stone, one shouldn't let it freeze while saturated.

Re: King Waterstone Question

Kent in Emmaus, PA

>If you can read Canadian, Lee Valley sells the same stone, and has some (fairly generic) instructions on their website.

I have the 6000 version, and as others have said, I store dry, use wet, and occasionally flatten on a diamond plate.