I have had the Wicked Edge Pro for about two weeks and have sharpened about ten knives. After each sharpening, I use canned air to blow the diamond stones, then wash them with water, soap, scrub with an old electric toothbrush really well, blot them with a towel and air dry. I am having rust issues on all of my diamond stones. Not sure what to do or what I am doing wrong. Please help.

DanClement wrote:


Hi Dan, yours is an interesting case, haven't really heard much about rusting before and it sounds like you're caring for your stones well. Do you live in a really humid environment or store you stones in a humid location?

I live in the San Diego CA area, so no humidity to speak of. I am about eight miles inland from the Pacific Ocean. I store the stones after they throughly dry, in a plastic case.

Darn, I was hoping for an easy answer! Can you put up some photos?

DanClement wrote:

My suggestion would be not to store them in a plastic case. I would think these stones have a lot of nooks and crannies,,,, and probably aren't as dry as you think.... and any moisture is now trapped. As a test, you could follow your procedure, box them up, stick them in the sunlight, and see if any moisture shows up on the plastic.

cbw

I am in the humidity capital of the midwest LOL (OH). I just rinse my diamond stones off with alcohol (91%, yes it is hydroscopic), paper towel dry, and I store them in a loose fitting plastic box with desiccant packs.

BLD has a solution as well in VCI paper I believe. Remember: picts always help.


There is another thread on care of the diamond stones IIRC.

Here are a few of my diamond stones performing the care I stated above:

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Clay, I have attached two photos.

I think that I will give the alcohol a try. Probably would be better than the water and soap, thank you.

Good suggestion. Perhaps they were not as dry as I thought they were.

Thanks Dan. I see what you mean. I'd be interested to hear the results if you try CBW's proposed experiment. Are they giving you any performance issues?

DanClement wrote: