Tool Time Tuesday - Granite Surface Plate

Official Simple Little Life video of: Tool Time Tuesday - Granite Surface Plate. First video in a weekly series looking at some of the tools used in knife making.

Also I just checked and I guess it's accurate to 1/10,000th of an inch. Which is crazy!

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For lapping you should use figure -8 motion, because then scratches go in all directions and abrade across earlier made scratches, making the surface smoother. For improving adhesion of the surface you want long deep scratches to increase total surface area and to give glue peaks and valleys to sit in. This is why when preparing surface for gluing you want to use linear motion when abrading the surface.

[billclancy]

With your help, my knives are selling nicely, and I can now get tools like this to up my quality even more and make me more efficient!

[anthonyrivers]

Lol. Your set up looks just like mines. I got mines from little machine shop. The height gauge is an i-gauge. I have a 7 x 10 central machinery mini lathe. I’ve picked up surface plate and high gauge and now I’m in the process of getting a hand scraper. I want to straighten my bed ways flat. I’ve never really cut anything. And just taking it apart and doing some mods 😅

[moetivateme]

I really like the idea of your tool time tuesday - I am going to enjoy these

[egbluesuede]

Great explanation on why this is beneficial. got a great grante plate from my local dealer when we built our kitchen. Granite countertops, and they gave us a piece of extra granite they said we could use as a cutting board? I don't know why I would want to ruin my knives on that, but it's been great in the shop. Maybe others could ask their local stone dealers for similar scraps?

[ogenmatic]

Well presented. Should be a good series - off to an excellent start!
Worked for years in a machine shop & for fifty bucks these things have become essentially disposable compared to what they used to be! There are various hardness grades of granite. The black is relatively 'soft' compared to the pink and they all do wear over time.
Should serve you well for years

[tomsdreamshopworx]

Looking forward to the series. I love my granite plate. I use mine with sandpaper to sharpen my woodworking chisels.

[pipper]

Sensi, great bit of information to lock away in the old mind vault. See you are not just a pretty face or an old paper weight!! You always blow my mind with such common sense ideas and info. God Bless and cheers for your time, Les 🙈🙉🙊

[watermain]

Nice demonstration Jeremy, thanks for sharing it.

[tybutler]

Love the videos I have learned a ton for knife making from your videos keep them coming

[jwfraga]

I am really digging these videos. Very good info here, thx!

[silvionovais]

Friend! I don't have a very thick stone (100mm). I have a lot of 20mm stones.
I intend to "work" 3 large diameter stones (1000mm X 1000mm). I think 20mm is too unstable for a big rock like that.
Can I glue several stones to get a more stable thickness?
I chose a harder black stone in my region of Brazil.
I also thought about making ribs in the shape of honeycombs between a sandwich of two 20mm stones.

[yellowdogjb]

Great vid! I subbed. The "Finding the centerline" tip was extremely helpful. Perhaps machinists know this trick, but to this weekend garage warrior, it was very helpful. I use a 12x12x1 section of granite to hold sand paper, and it seems to do fine. My weekend knife projects don't have to be accurate to the millionth degree, so I think even my granite would work on a knife blade. If my slab is off very much, it seems like when I scribe the second side my lines would not be parallel. That would probably be more of an issue with a longer item than a shorter one. And frankly, with my skill level and tools on hand, a Perfect centerline, and one that's Pretty Close, will probably come out looking just the same. Just Having a centerline will be an improvement.

[michaellee]

thx for the link, had no idea the price has come down so much.

[chrisidk]

never saw this coming two videos at 2 am

[MrAaronchefo]

And Thank u for ur videos l watch them all

[msrvfx]

A great source of flat polished granite on the cheap is contact your local granite counter top makers. They all have lots of cutoffs they want to get rid of. Often for nothing.

[Martin-pbts]

Great video. Would love to see a tool time Tuesday with your welder. I have seen you using it and the last time I was welding I was using an arc welder with a welding rod. Yours doesn't seem to have a welding rod so would be very interested to know how it works.
Regards, Martin.

[ThatOneOddGuy]

Aight I have a sink cut out
Can it be used as a surface plate or should I get a surface plate

[kith]

I just bought one of these for flattening the soles of hand planes.