DMT and 3m

[Jack]

Hi,
Brent, great page, very informative.
any update on using the DMT coarse/ fine bench stone for grinding.
the 4x10

Also, I could not locate the 3m abrasives with the pressure sensitive
adhesive on 3m vast website. Could you post the 3m product numbers.

I have a bunch of planes and chisels and water and oil stones from
another life that I want to reincarnate. I figured I could true up all
the stones with the DMT and we could use it in the shop now that we
are doing our own installations (kitchen cabinets, mouldings) All so
we could clean up all the chisels.

I have an accuride full extension glide(150# bearing) that got left
over from a job, I am thinking of attaching a version of your grinding
jig to it and skating over the stone.

I let you know if I have any luck,

I'll looking forward to checking out your videos over the weekend
once I get a chance.


Thanks for your help, Jack

[Brent...@gmail.com]

Jack

On Nov 23, 2:09 pm, Jack <jackhardcas...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> Brent, great page, very informative.
> any update on using the DMT coarse/ fine bench stone for grinding.
> the 4x10

Unless someone send me some DMT stones, I am probably not going to try
them out in the next few months. I have some diamond paste that I want
to try out on a steel plate. I was thinking of very fine paste for
honing first, perhaps rougher diamonds for grinding later.

> Also, I could not locate the 3m abrasives with the pressure sensitive
> adhesive on 3m vast website. Could you post the 3m product numbers.

I have spent some time on the 3M site with all the product numbers and
made no progress. I don't think you will be able to buy them from 3M -
you will have to find a retailed. Tools for working wood, mentioned in
my web site, sells selections of grits that should work pretty well.
Recently I tried a find silicon carbide stone to replace the 15 micron
3M paper - unfortunately, even a fine stone is too coarse for the edge
itself - it leaves nicks on the edge. The 15 micron 3M abrasive does
not nick the edge. You will use up this coarsest 3M abrasive paper,
but it is by far the best first abrasive for honing (that abrades the
edge).

> I have a bunch of planes and chisels and water and oil stones from
> another life that I want to reincarnate. I figured I could true up all
> the stones with the DMT and we could use it in the shop now that we
> are doing our own installations (kitchen cabinets, mouldings) All so
> we could clean up all the chisels.

I just don't know about DMT. I do know that coarse Silicon Carbide
stones by Norton work well.

> I have an accuride full extension glide(150# bearing) that got left
> over from a job, I am thinking of attaching a version of your grinding
> jig to it and skating over the stone.

Wow - drawer guides for sharpening! I never though of that. People
make sharpening boxes - using dowels to hold the iron and sliding the
dowels along vertical members. Fastening the jig to a drawer bottom
attached to smooth drawer guides would certainly give you very smooth
operation and full length of the stone ability. Very interesting. If
you do this, be sure to take lots of pictures - you might have
something very new here.

> I let you know if I have any luck,

If you take lots of pictures and send them along I will assemble them
into a page on my site if you want. Could be quite interesting.
Inexpensive, readily available hardware that could provide a solid
mechanism.

> I'll looking forward to checking out your videos over the weekend
> once I get a chance.
>
> Thanks for your help, Jack

The videos are not great production quality wise - but they should
convince you that it is it pretty easy. People tend to be tentative
with the jig, blade and abrasive. You can be fairly assertive and get
quick results that are very good.

Brent