Sharpening lube

[poolhound]

Having spent quite a few hours on Sunday, cleaning, regrinding and sharpening "grandpa's chisels" I was wondering what lubrication y'all use when sharpening with oil stones and/or scary sharp. Ive used a commercial "sharpening lube" (dont recall make) and WD40 but wondered if there was a better option.

It would be nice to have a set of water stones but I dont and the crystal ball doesnt show any in the near future either

If you dont remember the original "grandpa" thread you can see it and them here. http://www.bt3central.com/showthread.php?t=40010

[shoottx]

Jon

Since I use wet dry sand paper with the veritas mark 2 to sharpen I use water as the lube.

When finnishing, I wipe the blade of with a paper towel and use either Carnuba oil or corosionX.

[Len]

For oil stones I use the same plain old mineral oil I use on my cutting boards.

Len

[poolhound]

I have heard some folks say baby oil, anybody tried it?

[bthere]

On oil stones, I use mineral oil - cheap and available in the shop all the time.

With scary sharp, I often use it dry for honing, but for sharpening, I use water on a chunk of marble. The marble is flat enough and when wet, the paper stays in place on it.

Water stones, I use water.

[poolhound]

On oil stones, I use mineral oil - cheap and available in the shop all the time.

With scary sharp, I often use it dry for honing, but for sharpening, I use water on a chunk of marble. The marble is flat enough and when wet, the paper stays in place on it.

Water stones, I use water.

Home do you distinguish where sharpening and honing meet?

[bthere]

Home do you distinguish where sharpening and honing meet?

Depends on what I am doing. I tend to hone blades frequently rather than sharpening infrequently. With sandpaper, I think of sharpening as grits up to 1200. Beyond that, I think of it as honing. I guess it is more of my own mental separation.

I usually keep a piece of 1500 and 2000 stuck down next to the lathe and use that to hone skews rather than grind them.

Depending on where I am, I will use the same stuff to touch up plane irons and chisels, and sometimes a leather strop with green compound if I really need to polish up an edge for tough grain.

If I am not going to be working in the shop near the bench with sandpaper, I have a small pocket stone that I use to touch up blades as they diminish.

[poolhound]

when it comes to honing has anybody ever tried to use autobody rubbing compounds such as this?

http://www.autobarn.net/ch08610.html

As I was sorting through the garage last weekend I came across a tub and thought "hmmm its a fine abrasive I wonder if that might work with sharpening."

Anybody know what type of "grit factor" it would equate to?

I know I hijacked the original thread a bit but I did start it