oilstone

An oilstone has to be kept saturated with lightweight oil during use.

This can also be done on a medium grit oilstone.

You will need an oilstone to keep them sharp.

A man was inside, sharpening a knife on an oilstone.

The maid was honing a long kitchen knife with an oilstone.

Then he uses an oilstone to remove metal scraps.

(If you are using an oilstone, put a few drops of oil on it first.)

He sat cross-legged beside the fire, honing the edge of his longsword with an oilstone.

For most ordinary people, the simplest and least expensive device is a combination oilstone called a coarse-fine India stone.

Saltar stood in the bows putting a fine edge to his curved sword on an oilstone.

Called a coarse-fine India stone, the oilstone is a man-made block of aluminum oxide abrasives.

"There, across the yard, at the door of the armory, do you see the boy squatting by the steps honing a sword with an oilstone?"

"I will come," he said, putting down his hammer and searching for whetstone, oilstone, sleekstone.

'And there's an oilstone in the cupboard.'

Surgical dissection knives, a butcher's cleaver, a small handsaw and an oilstone to make sure they were always laser-sharp.

Despite the variety of stones and sharpening implements available, the simplest and least expensive for an amateur remains the old-fashioned combination oilstone.

Routine sharpening of knives, chisels, plane irons and similar cutting tools should be done on a whetstone, also known as an oilstone.

These types of jigs are usually used with a sharpening stone or plate, such as a waterstone, oilstone or diamond abrasive surface.

If you already own an oilstone, check it with a straight edge to make sure that it hasn't, over years of use, become slightly hollowed out in the middle.

For this and subsequent sharpenings, you will need a vise, a 10-inch, smooth-cut mill file with a handle, an oilstone and a special tool called a burnisher.

If the scraper was well sharpened to begin with, reburnishing usually can be performed two or three times before complete resharpening, including using the file and oilstone, is necessary.

Scary sharp is a method of sharpening woodworking tools with sandpaper instead of conventional methods of oilstone or waterstone sharpening.

Then place a few drops of oil on the oilstone and remove the burrs by sliding the stone lightly back and forth several times along each side of the scraper.

The numerous gadgets for knife-sharpening that have appeared in catalogues in the past decade testify to the average person's reluctance to try oilstone and strop, the traditional tools, for this purpose.

The CIA assigned the cryptonym "Aquatone" to the project, with the Air Force using the name "Oilstone" for their support to the CIA.