Subscription added!! Great video. With everything I learned, I can't wait to see how thrilled my mother will be when I show her that her new granite kitchen counter can be used to flatten all of my wavy sharpening stones. I bet I could sharpen all her knives to a mirror finish, of course, seeing how shiny the granite is. Thanks for the awsome video!! I look forward to enjoying many more!!
Finally someone that gets the idea. Now, any tips on finding this kind of rock? I live in a river delta on sandy soil, any chance I'll be able to find stuff like this? Btw I've been looking for this kind of video for VERY LONG and I'm glad I finally found it! So thank you for sharing your knowledge mate. Would LOVE to see a video where you use masonry technique to shape a stone into a sharpening stone! You rock mate.
Really interesting video. If you do decide to revisit the topic I'd be hugely interested to see the process of roughing out a not-flat stone with hammer and chisel.
I love your detailed explanation of everything in this video. This is incredibly helpful, and exactly what I was looking for plus more! I live off grid on a mountain in the northeast and have a ton of quartz and slate around here. Excited to try this out!! Subscribing and looking for more content like this.
one correction, you cannot flatten 2 stones with 3 stone method, but there are other "rustic" methods that may be used to perfectly flatten even a single stone. But you will need to make an extra tool - a pitch lap. Precission optical flat glass - they used to be made with pitch lap and they are flattened to 0.5 micron
I love your videos and I have been thinking about when I would be able to do something like your videos. I live in New York and there are a ton of quarries with all types of rock around even in the 5 boroughs! Hopefully when I get healthy enough I will be able to shoot a video with everything involved! Thanks for showing us how you find and do your assessments on everything and Best regards
You are The Amazing Sharperman! Cue Spiderman music. This is really great stuff in how to make tools from scratch, in the theme of rebuilding civilization or at least appreciating what we have. I've seen your hewing axe profile and chisel leather wrap videos. Super fun and educational. Cheers!
Thank you so much for this video sir! I did it today and harvested some natural. I’m gonna flattens them with my atoma #140. Can’t wait to see how it’s gonna turn 💁♂️
I'd be concerned about dulling my diamonds. They are super hard but they can still wear. Try doing at least the first bit with something like concrete paver or the like.
This video is amazing I've been looking for this type of information. And even better I live near Daylesford and was planning to go looking for some deposits of decant sharpening stones and now I know I might find some! 🙂
No hardness and colour are pretty much unrelated. You can get very hard pale stones. I think hardness might be related to color in these slates. The deeper darker the blue the harder. But somewhere else it may be (is) the opposite.
ooh man, I wish I had rock like the soft sandstone you used 7:50 now that, is a stone that I can see much more usefulness in for rough grind work. it's pretty hard to find good soft rough stones. a small note, try and rate natural whetstones by performance rather than grit. ultimately it doesnt matter what the grit is, the only part that matters is performance. the best way to test a stone is to start with a smooth, clean, wet, surface and then see how long it takes for a slurry to build up. when you have the slurry started take your test piece and work in one direction only, until the piece is covered in consistent scratches, in one spot at least the slurry is the important part of a stone. good luck, its always cool to see people trying to figure out this mostly forgotten and overlooked mystery craft.
Concerning finding a soft course sand stone. I saw on your channel that you are from Germany. Maybe you can pick up a stone from/at the Pfälzer Wald. The whole region basically has nothing but sand stone (a bit similar to the Sächsische Schweiz). I have picked up a random red sand stone and it is very coarse as well as very soft. It is a bit too coarse for sharpening but works well for the purpose of creating a coarse slurry as shown in the video. I also picked up a yellow sand stone there. It appears to be finer and harder than the red one. I like the red one more.
Iron stone (purple sandstone) is best so start, then tight fine grain sandstone, and then bassalt to finish, orthe back of a simple tile will do....best of the lot is ceaser stone off cuts.
It works only with soft stones like slate and the other you have there... sandstone maybe. Arkansas-like novaculite is what I want. Granite, marble,... How do they make graveyard stones? With diamond cutting blades, 3M lapping discs on agle grinders... That's the way. A ceramic tile is better than concrete btw. Actually a nice, flat ceramic tile is close to what they sell as ultra fine ceramic sharpening stones. Try lapping some ceramic/porcelain
actually I'm lapping a carborundum stone on a tile as we speak. Which is hard but the tile is harder. It's just labor-intensive beyond being funny. Still had to subscribe for more content like this mostly because of your hair 😀Also, I'm shaving with straight razors and I need a flat, fine and super fine stuff
You can get them in credibly fine but they are hard to find. I've used the large one for one of my yanagiba sushi knives and it did a great job at restoring an edge.
where would you recommend someone who dosnt know his area to good to look for better quality of Natural stones selfmade? I have aldready bought many myself so i know what they feel and smell like but. i my local area I have no idea where to really search for better quality. I do live close to forest and I can track myself to rivers if needed
@Skelletor92 Look at a list of the staff for the nearest High School in your area and contact whoever teaches Geology (or basic earth science). They are literally the biggest “rock nerds” in the world and fairly certain they would be enthusiastic to show you where to go and what to look for.
v.v wish I could find something that can teach me what to look for in a stone that can be turned into a Whitestone. My local bedrock is Granite. So this kinda dont help but a great vid overall
Hmmm that's not a simple question to answer. Experience? I think that you quickly realise which stones are rubbish and then over time expand your knowledge as to what might be good. Many stones are too soft or too hard and you can recognise this pretty quickly. Similarly different inclusions will make a stone no good for sharpening. Ultimately you are not going to know until try. I might have to have a bit more of a think about this and maybe do a video on it.
A lot of slates do to a degree but no. One of the things that good about this deposit is it's consistency however some of it is no good. Some didn't have any strength between the layers so it just turned into flakes. Other slates around here are have a scattering of pyrite crystals. They will cut a groove in your steel.
@@ChestnutnagsToolsFromJapan Mattieb3152. Finally got around to doing another video and its time for me to give the stone away. You won. Get in touch with your address and I'll send it to you.
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You can do it with two! Just wind up with four flat surfaces instead. Flip one grind flip it again grind, now flip the other one and grind. So it goes 1:2 1:3 4:2 4:3 2:1 2:4 3:1 3:4.
Yeah I've been ding this for years. I've got a piece off very fine grained mud stone from my first trip out with vogus. It's a bit irregular though. Need a special hammer to work on it.
