Luke Dupont
10-18-2016, 10:42 PM
Just finished making this:
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It's a box for my vintage Pike Washita, made from Cypress. I applied two coats of Danish Oil, and two coats of Orange Oil & Beeswax to keep the oil and metal shavings from staining the box. The hardware is kind of cheap, and I didn't inset any of it, but I think it will hold up well enough, and doesn't look bad.
This is currently my favorite stone, by the way, and I'd highly recommend one to anyone interested in natural oil-stones. It's nearly twice as fast as any Soft Arkansas that I've used, and it leaves an impressively fine edge for it's speed -- nearly as fine as a hard (white) Arkansas, and very responsive to a plain leather strop. It also resists loading a lot better than my soft arks, and find that I get equally good results with water as I do oil. I prefer to use it with a thin mineral oil as I do the rest of my stones, though.
345966345968345967
It's a box for my vintage Pike Washita, made from Cypress. I applied two coats of Danish Oil, and two coats of Orange Oil & Beeswax to keep the oil and metal shavings from staining the box. The hardware is kind of cheap, and I didn't inset any of it, but I think it will hold up well enough, and doesn't look bad.
This is currently my favorite stone, by the way, and I'd highly recommend one to anyone interested in natural oil-stones. It's nearly twice as fast as any Soft Arkansas that I've used, and it leaves an impressively fine edge for it's speed -- nearly as fine as a hard (white) Arkansas, and very responsive to a plain leather strop. It also resists loading a lot better than my soft arks, and find that I get equally good results with water as I do oil. I prefer to use it with a thin mineral oil as I do the rest of my stones, though.