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Mounted Oilstone: Turkey Stone Cut, Rubbed Flat on Emery and Bedded in a Lidded Wooden Block (Tomlinson, 1854)
The joiner's oilstone of the 1850s, from Tomlinson's Cyclopaedia of Useful Arts quoting Holtzapffel: a piece of Turkey oil-stone cut to a rectangle with diamond powder, rubbed flat with sand or emery on an iron plate, cemented into a block of wood with glaziers' putty and given a wooden lid, used with a thin oil.
Intermediate
About 1 day
Instructions
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Stone sizes
Stone sizes
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Read the Cyclopaedia of Useful Arts
Read the Cyclopaedia of Useful Arts
"As a whetstone it surpasses every other known substance."
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Cut and flatten the stone
Cut and flatten the stone
Take a rough piece of Turkey oil-stone (black is somewhat harder than white). Cut it to a rectangle with a lapidary's slitting-mill and diamond powder, then rub the faces smooth with sand or emery on an iron plate.
Materials for this step:
Turkey Oilstone1 piece
Emery Powder1 pieceTools needed:
Diamond Saw
Iron Plate
20-Liter Bucket4
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Bed it in wood
Bed it in wood
Cut a recess in a block of wood to take the stone and cement it in with glaziers' putty. Make a wooden lid to keep out dust; its inside may be covered with a thick piece of buff leather, which takes up oil from the tool and serves as a strop.
Materials for this step:
White Oak Board1 piece
Glazier's Putty1 piece
Chamois Leather1 pieceTools needed:
Hand Saw
Chisels
Wooden Mallet
Hand Plane5
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Use
Use
Sharpen with neatsfoot oil, or any oil not disposed to thicken (he also names sperm oil).
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Troubleshooting
Troubleshooting
Oilstone troubleshooting.
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History and honest limits
History and honest limits
From Charles Tomlinson (ed.), **Cyclopaedia of Useful Arts** (1854), vol. II, "Hone", quoting Holtzapffel (checked on the archive.org scan cyclopdiaofuse02tomlrich, p. 18). He gives no block sizes; oak for the block, the tools and the diagram are ours.
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