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Sharpening glass blade with sharpening stone
Posted: Fri Aug 29, 2003 7:48 pm
by sadiesjewels
Ok ... it's time to sharpen my mk 215 gl blade on my tile saw.
In the archives Dee (?) says to use a silicon carbide dressing stick and just slice a piece off when you need to sharpen it. I have a silicon carbide sharpening stone that I bought to do the job. Is it the same thing? Or is the dressing stick a different grade to the sharpening stone and I will end up removing the little diamond cutters?
Sadie
Posted: Fri Aug 29, 2003 8:32 pm
by Allan Gott
I would strongly suggest asking Bob Stephan at
http://www.hisglassworks.com for his advice. He'll give you the straight goods regardless of where your equipment originates. He's a regular at craftweb too.
Posted: Fri Aug 29, 2003 11:08 pm
by sadiesjewels
Thanks Alan,
I'll try Craftweb as well as his glassworks to see what they say.
Sadie
Re: Sharpening glass blade with sharpening stone
Posted: Fri Aug 29, 2003 11:13 pm
by dee
sadiesjewels wrote:Ok ... it's time to sharpen my mk 215 gl blade on my tile saw.
In the archives Dee (?) says to use a silicon carbide dressing stick and just slice a piece off when you need to sharpen it. I have a silicon carbide sharpening stone that I bought to do the job. Is it the same thing? Or is the dressing stick a different grade to the sharpening stone and I will end up removing the little diamond cutters?
Sadie
sadie - i buy the s/c blocks at lowe's and just slice off a piece or a new method i've been using is to just hold it against the 2 sides of the blade and tilt it so the front edge goes into the block to refresh the blade - i had asked bob at hisglassworks.com and he said the s/c block is fine - eventually the diamonds wear off too much as i discovered to my irritation today but it keeps the blade going for a long time...
D
Re: Sharpening glass blade with sharpening stone
Posted: Tue Sep 02, 2003 4:15 pm
by Brian and Jenny Blanthorn
sadiesjewels wrote:Ok ... it's time to sharpen my mk 215 gl blade on my tile saw.
In the archives Dee (?) says to use a silicon carbide dressing stick and just slice a piece off when you need to sharpen it. I have a silicon carbide sharpening stone that I bought to do the job. Is it the same thing? Or is the dressing stick a different grade to the sharpening stone and I will end up removing the little diamond cutters?
Sadie
This method removes the crud n some of the substrate the diomond is in which brings out fresh diomond
But first check the bed is true 2 the blade n any other weirdness
Yes the process will wear out the blade a little so not a kind thing U wanna do 2 often
Yes Bob over His is one of the good guys
Brian