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Here is a setup I use for grinding and polishing. It is not completely up to Japanese traditions, where you supposed to have a water bucket standing behind the tilted wooden block with a stone held by your own weight with a special wooden hook. However, it works for me because I don't really have a shop or something and I do it right on the floor next to the back door window.

Snapware container works perfectly for keeping water - I always can put a lid on it, close latches, and put it aside.

Since I don't want to spend several hundred on stones, the main groundwork is done using wet abrasive paper attached to a piece of metal bar with very thin double-sided sticky tape (3M Scotch carpet mounting tape). Usually, it takes about two or four changes of paper to complete a stage. For rough grinding stages (called Shitaji togi), I highly recommend 3M SandBlaster flexible plastic film, 150 and 320 grit size. It definitely lasts longer than regular paper and grain size is more uniform than conventional medium-grit sandpaper usually has.

By using abrasive sheets, I can save money to buy fine and polishing stones. 5000-grit Naniwa Ebi synthetic stone is on its way to me from Osaka and I have a plan to buy a nice relatively large piece of natural Shiage-do polishing stone from Namikawa Heibei Co. (Maybe, for 12000¥ it will not be a perfect one, but definitely something good enough.)

Grind by Johny Dash

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Grind by _eWalter_

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grinding gears by Ben Grib

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grind by Flowizm ...

Climbing the Mur de Huy. La Flèche Wallonne Femmes 2013

Grind by Harold.

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Grinding past by Lance

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A trio of IC rebuilt switchers, they call them SW14s, have a long cut of cars that they are dragging out of CN's Markham Yard. The IC 1509, 1491 & 1497 will then shove the cars back north into the yard.

Grinding bowl by FAO emergencies

IDP women grinding millet grown from FAO seeds in the Kasesa IDP camp, Damaturu LGA, Yobe State, Nigeria.

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Grind by Sally Kelso

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The cow on his teeshirt says: "Hamburgers are made of what?!"

Grinding Alabaster by AdjaFong

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Grinding teeth by Thomas Boesgaard

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Indian Grinding Rock State Historic Park by Tony Immoos

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Approximately 200 of the 1,185 mortar holes in the parks feature attraction. The gaming field lies beyond.

grinding by Maciej Kopciuch

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Grinding the Cacao by F Delventhal

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Grinding the samples by Dennis Tang

Loved the "Old fashioned ground coffee" sign by the grinder

Cuisinart Grind & Brew by prettywar-stl

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Grinding by Gary Cobb

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A few kids doing tricks in the park.

Grinding Wheel by Vermont Lenses

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Grinding Away by Craig Sanders

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A mid-train distributed power unit is grinding away as it helps to pull an eastbound CSX intermodal train past the former Big Four passenger station in Berea, Ohio. The depot is now a restaurant. The water tower in the background pays tribute to the Cleveland Browns NFL team, which is based in Berea.

Grinding for oil by Yehuda Misgav

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grinding away by michael

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ingraham clock works detail.

grind ... by John Joseph Dolan aka John Fotohouse

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Bamfords 'Rapid' Grinding Mill at Home Farm Temple Newsam Estate ... 'Bamfords was founded in Uttoxeter in 1871 by Henry Bamford and made water pumps, taps and agricultural machinery. Joseph Cyril Bamford split off from the Bamford company in 1945 to set up what has become known as JCB - J C Bamford Excavators Ltd.'

Grinding coffee beans by Tom Lehman