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How do you tell the difference between an oil-stone and a wet-stone?

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On 11 Dec 2004, David White wrote

How do you tell the difference between an oil-stone and a wet-stone?


Unless this is a riddle that's gone over my head, the obvious answer is
"You don't, since the latter's a "whet" stone, and you use oil on it".

(Or so I was led to believe.)

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How do you tell the difference between an oil-stone and a wet-stone?

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This may not be a cast iron definition, but . . .

An oil stone is usually brick-shaped and grey in colour - and you sharpen
chisels and plane blades on it, lubricated by oil.

A wet stone is lighter in colour, and often circular - and rotates in a
trough of water as you turn a handle. It's used for sharpening knives. The
butcher in the village where I was brought up used to use one.
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Date: 11/12/04 22:38 GMT Standard Time
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How do you tell the difference between an oil-stone and a wet-stone?


Firstly it's 'whetstone' not wetstone.

'Whet' is actually a word. It means the work period in harvesting between the
time a scythe is sharpened and when it needs sharpening again. So a whetstone
was originally a stone used for sharpening scythes - or knives or swords.
Usually used dry and often a big cylindrical millstone type affair worked by a
foot treadle.

An oilstone is used wet. Usually lubricated by light oil or paraffin. The
reasons for this are complex but the lubricant combines with particles that
break off the stone and forms a slurry which does most of the sharpening and
actually protects the surface of the stone. Used dry these types of stone will
not cut very well and will abrade and deform rapidly.

There are also Japanese water stones developed, or perhaps discovered, hundreds
of years ago for making katanas which are used soaked in water rather than oil
and are commonly thought to be the best knife and blade sharpening stones in
the world. A carbon steel katana made by an Ayasugi master can cut through
several inches of bamboo or a human body in a single stroke. Not that you would
dream of using a master's sword for such things and Takegiri, the art and
practice of cutting bamboo trunks, is one of the most demanding of sword
skills.
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How do you tell the difference between an oil-stone and a wet-stone?

David.

To whet - to sharpen by rubbing or to make more acute

That's English, that is ...

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How do you tell the difference between an oil-stone and a wet-stone?

David.

To whet - to sharpen by rubbing or to make more acute

That's English, that is ...

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Thanks for the English lesson, Goeff!

David


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In message , David White
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In message , David White
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How do you tell the difference between an oil-stone and a wet-stone?

David.

To whet - to sharpen by rubbing or to make more acute

That's English, that is ...

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Thanks for the English lesson, Goeff!

No probs Divad

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