I used Norton India Fine FB8 bench stone to flatten Japanese water stones, it works very good, because India Stone is very hard, also good ways is to rub 2 dished water stones on each other.
You can also use white chalk, it has an extraordinary effect on the surface of the stone and it creates a kind of abrasive paste, just like Nagura stone.
I've used a peice of wet 220 or 320 sandpaper on a mirror to flaten my stones. With the mirror on the table, I rub my stone upsidedown on the sandpaper. Is this an acxeptable approach?
Use a piece of float glass and some silicon carbide powder to flatten the fixer stone, the. Use the fixer stone to flatten your water stones. Or you can use the float glass to flatten all of your stones if you prefer.
@@hugybgrl use float glass and silicon carbide powder. When the float glass dishes out, go buy or salvage another piece of glass. You can use scraps from granite countertops as well. If you really want to you can go buy a diamond lapping plate but whatever you use will eventually wear out so I go for the cheaper options 👌
How often would you recommend to flatten your stones, or what are a few key signs that your stone needs flattening? I see varying opinions on this and being that I don't sharpen a high volume of knives at the moment I don't often see the negatives of an uneven stone for a long time. I tend to clean up my stone in between uses with a rust eraser to keep it performing smoothly and flatten as I can actually see it get a little concave, but I'm not sure if that's not ideal.
Uhh, flatten your stone on occasion. You shouldn’t have to do it too often, just a light flattening every few sharpenings. It also depends on how hard your stone is. If your stone is hard, you’ll have to flatten less often.
