Make your own diamond spray

This is a quick video showing how easy it is to make you own diamond spray.
1.5 micron diamond -EBay $8
1 mason jar
2 ounce spray bottles 5 pack - EBay $8
1 bottle of water

[@trumanhw]

*Good search terms for raw ingredients:* diamond lapidary micron powder

[@paulbraga4460]

thank you so very much...blessings

[@sharpwhits0167]

Joe, my man. Been wondering about you, brother. Hope everything is well, man. Excellent video. Ive wondered about this myself but never could find any decent information. Im going to be trying this soon.

[@learningsharp1836]

Thanks man! I’m doing well hope you are as well! It’s a fun little project for sure

[@richterknives]

Genius

[@E.D.B]

Have you considered using mineral oil? You’ed get a less waste that way cus it would make a more uniform stream.

[@fredp1983]

Im wondering the results youve had?

[@RubricoA.]

What ratio (grams : ml) in order to have maximum cutting effect ?

[@iroironman9115]

I want to Ask do they hawe difrent diamond duag or they all same.. becouse i find menu variants os diamond dus so what you recomented

[@ArikGST]

Funny, I very recently had this idea myself and started messing around with it. I think I got my mixture too thick tho, I`ll try your ratio.

[@learningsharp1836]

You can over do the diamond. 5 carats to 5 ounces of water is perfect and doesn’t clump bad or clog nozzles to bad

[@toddbenko6701]

@@learningsharp1836 I think you ment to report 25 carates to 5 ounces of water. In the video you clearly identify the vial is printed as being 25 caret weight which happens also to be 5 grams and you added it to 5 ounces of water.

[@zzemi99]

Great video, thanks. How much powder?

[@prairieedgeservice]

He identified in the video, the vial is 25 caret weight of diamond = 5 grams of diamond powder.

[@Firefoxtony]

Awesome thanks mate. Can I ask the difference between poly and mono diamonds actually are without all the sales stuff they tell you? And also does this give a toothy edge? Could you please make a video to show a sort of sharp knife before and after stroping with this and show the polish and also bite that it gives if you could? I was thinking about gunny juice but now I've seen your video I'm not sure. Thanks so much mate!

[@paulwin9036]

late but the guy behind stroppy stuff made a video on the topic. tldw, it won't matter with the pressures you use for stropping.

[@timothyaldrich4926]

was wondering if you knew how to make the spray into like a paste you can use syringe

[@thomasfranz2572]

I guess you could use a thickener like xanthan gum

[@dombond6515]

What I can make this

[@nor4277]

Does anyone no if you can use diamond spray and the wax componds together on the same strop.

[@wayneholmes637]

You can, who is going to stop you? However the visible results will be from the coarsest of the two. So pretty much pointless. If you need more compounds you also need more strops. Don't mix them around.

[@nor4277]

@wayneholmes5786 I added the diamond compound too because the wax compond didn't do much , plus I am leaning ,to strop, I bought a Lasky sharpener too ,then I bought a works electric knife sharpener hasn't used it yet ,there a learning curve hereI was asking for imput from people who are better then me

[@ICheat_ILie_ISteal]

Take diamond powder and green powder and mix it 50/50.

[@jeffhicks8428]

Well yeah buddy. Folks with good marketing are making a killing selling the stuff. You buy the raw industrial diamonds, mix it with either water or oil based, and sell it to EDC bro geniuses for 100x mark. I don't like or suggest spray tho. I find the oil based stuff works great on wood and leather. I find that diamond on wood seems to finish much finer than stones at the same grit. 2 to 3 micron diamond on wood seems to finish finer than even the finest sub micron finishing stones I have. And it cuts very very aggressively. That made me question the need for anything too fine, because you can get this stuff easily down to a tenth of a micron. Ive been using that for razors but Im questioning if it's beneficial. Get some wood, sand it down with like 220 grit or so. I woudn't go finer than 320. then I load high concentration diamond in oil. Trying felt and other stuff too, seems good for razors. If using denim or linen the spray will be needed, otherwise avoid spray

[@thechumpsbeendumped.7797]

great info, thanks. Do you have any further recommendations to add since you posted this comment? Just out of interest, I’m going to try different carriers and substrates, such as baby oil, hand sanitiser gel (there’s loads of that leftover since COVID-19) and beeswax. I think the sanitiser is gloopy enough to hold the diamonds in suspension pretty well and it evaporates fast and the beeswax should hold diamonds into the grain of leather, denim, felt etc.

[@jeffhicks8428]

@@thechumpsbeendumped.7797 I suggest mineral oil. tiny bit. on wood substrate. but go ahead, have a field day. there is no right way or wrong way. only what works or doesn't work. the only wrong move is getting scammed buying 70 cents of diamonds for $70 from edc bro retail stuff like gunny juice. as long as you dont do that, you're good. For $70 you can literally order a milk jug of the stuff in 50% diamond concentration. I dont use anything too funky if the knives are going to be used on food but for outdoors knives you can use different kinds of oils. wd40. whatever.

[@thechumpsbeendumped.7797]

@@jeffhicks8428 Thanks for the reply. Because it's going to get on my hands the most toxic I was considering would be baby oil (is that what they call mineral oil in the US?) I use that on my plates now and it's easy to clean up and safe to have on my hands for extended periods. I'm looking online and considering which grits to buy. They're so cheap I think I'll get several just to play around with, say 2k, 4k, 6k, 8k and 10k. Speaking of rip-offs, I'd like some resin-bonded plates but the price for a full set is extortionate. Have you heard about anyone who's made their own resin-bonded plates? I'm tempted to give it a try and make a few course grits (200, 400 and maybe 800 grit) for my fixed geometry system.

[@dominiquebossis797]

Good morning, Do you think it works on a NANOCLOTH from JENDE? Is this emulsion cleanable just with water? THANKS... (Google traduction)