Near antique sharpening wheel

["dondougan@zzzzzzzz" <dondougan@zzzzzzzz>]

Ad Sach;

I used to use a sharpening stone in our school studio very similar yours
to sharpen wood and stone carving tools. The one we had was rigged up
with a cone-shaped container above the stone's leading edge (about ten-
o-clock if looking at the stone from the right-hand side in your photo).
It was suspended in place by a bent steel arm coming up from the frame.
The cup was filled with water and it slowly dripped down on the stone
 from a small hole at the point of the cone -- just enough to keep the
surface of the wheel glistening with water to help keep the metal
particles loose and from becoming impacted into the surface of the stone
and 'glazing'.

Unfortunately a few years ago some students carrying some big pieces of
lumber bumped into it and knocked the whole thing over onto the concrete
floor, and the sandstone wheel was shattered. But the tool lives on in a
slightly different format - I saved the pieces and use them as rubbing
stones for marble and limestone carving now.

Good sharpening to you,
Don

Don Dougan
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