IrritableBadger
Aluminum
- Joined
- Apr 14, 2013
- Location
- Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, USA
I recently inherited a bunch of Arkansas whetstones. They run the range of grades and there are a lot of different sizes.
The problem is that they haven’t been well maintained so there’s not a flat face on any of them. Some are ridiculously cupped and useless as is.
Other than needing to protect the lathe, can anybody think of a reason I can’t mount a diamond wheel like those used to cut and polish stone on the spindle and flatten the stones using a mount that rides on the cross slide?
It seems like a great idea, which makes me think I might be about to screw something up in a spectacular fashion.
The problem is that they haven’t been well maintained so there’s not a flat face on any of them. Some are ridiculously cupped and useless as is.
Other than needing to protect the lathe, can anybody think of a reason I can’t mount a diamond wheel like those used to cut and polish stone on the spindle and flatten the stones using a mount that rides on the cross slide?
It seems like a great idea, which makes me think I might be about to screw something up in a spectacular fashion.