If possible, the oilstone should have a fine grain.    From Wordnik.com.  [4. Tool Maintenance] Reference

A specially shaped oilstone is required for sharpening the tubes.    From Wordnik.com.  [4. Tool Maintenance] Reference

And he got that whet rock, an oilstone, and sharpened his knife just like a razor.    From Wordnik.com.  [Oral History Interview with Geddes Elam Dodson, May 26, 1980. Interview H-0240. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)] Reference

An oilstone or water lubricated stone may then be used to sharpen the cutting edge.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 5] Reference

Thereby the oilstone is moved by hand in a circular motion on the tool cutting edge.    From Wordnik.com.  [4. Tool Maintenance] Reference

‘Sol Chickerel?’ said the man addressed, as he touched his plane-iron upon the oilstone.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hand of Ethelberta] Reference

The burr produced is removed by alternately stoning the two bevels of the cutting edge with circulating movements of a wetted oilstone.    From Wordnik.com.  [2. Splitting and Carving Tools] Reference

The reciprocating movement of the tool on the oilstone or vice versa is continued until the burr is removed and the cutting edge has a bright appearance.    From Wordnik.com.  [2. Splitting and Carving Tools] Reference

Instead of using the oilstone an easier, tho less perfect, way to flatten out the burr on the edges is to lay the scraper flat on the bench near the edge.    From Wordnik.com.  [Handwork in Wood] Reference

Then the scraper is laid flat on the oilstone and rubbed, first on one side and then on the other till the sides are bright and smooth along the edge, Fig. 154.    From Wordnik.com.  [Handwork in Wood] Reference

In doing so, the scraper has to be drawn over the oilstone from either side of the cutting edge alternately and in an inclined position till the burr - which this way is bent for several times - is neatly removed.    From Wordnik.com.  [2. Tools for scraping] Reference

Jed whistled a few mournful bars and sharpened a chisel on an oilstone.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shavings] Reference

There are several kinds of oilstone or hone in repute for giving a finishing or sharp cutting edge, England.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Repairing & Restoration of Violins 'The Strad' Library, No. XII.] Reference

But Stefanone was growing impatient, and his knife was every day a little sharper as he whetted it thoughtfully upon a bit of smooth oilstone which he carried in his pocket.    From Wordnik.com.  [Casa Braccio, Volumes 1 and 2 (of 2)] Reference

"India" oilstone is a composition of emery with some kind of stone dust, and is a useful stone for quickly rubbing down superfluous steel before putting an edge to the tool.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wood-Carving Design and Workmanship] Reference

For the small set of tools described in Chapter II one flat oilstone and two slips will be found sufficient for a beginning, but as a matter of fact, it will be advisable, as the number of tools is enlarged, to obtain slips of curves corresponding to the hollows of all gouges as nearly as possible.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wood-Carving Design and Workmanship] Reference

Prior to inlaying in materials which are at all likely to fray, you first back them with paper, thin but tough, firmly pasted; then, having tacked the two together, and pinned them with drawing-pins on to a board, you slip between it and the stuff a sheet of glass, and with a very sharp knife (kept sharp by an oilstone at hand) cut out the pattern.    From Wordnik.com.  [Art in Needlework A Book about Embroidery] Reference

I had better get that replacement oilstone I’ve been meaning to get.    From Wordnik.com.  [Balloon Juice » Blog Archive » John +12 Speaks] Reference

A glue-pot and an oilstone, two articles which their owner was wont to term "his right hand and his left.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Jack Sheppard A Romance] Reference

When you have drilled sufficiently to hold a plug firmly, then have a piece of steel of spring temper filed so as to fit closely and so straight that it will not act too wedging (and split the arbor), drive it in, cut it off and turn down, finishing with an oilstone slip, and polish by running the lathe rapidly and with a piece of thin boxwood (or hard pegwood) charged with diamantine, being sure that the end of the pivot has no burr, thrown either way, over end or on side, for such a burr will cause a lack of freedom of a balance pivot particularly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 664, September 22,1888] Reference

Figure 18 - Shaped oilstone.    From Wordnik.com.  [4. Tool Maintenance] Reference

Tool oilstoning is undertaken by a wet oilstone.    From Wordnik.com.  [4. Tool Maintenance] Reference

The oilstone and oil have already been described.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wood-Carving Design and Workmanship] Reference

Washita oilstone, 22.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wood-Block Printing A Description of the Craft of Woodcutting and Colour Printing Based on the Japanese Practice] Reference

"India" oilstone, 42.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wood-Carving Design and Workmanship] Reference

"Turkey," oilstone, 42.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wood-Carving Design and Workmanship] Reference

"Washita" oilstone, 42.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wood-Carving Design and Workmanship] Reference

Tools, position on oilstone, 52.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wood-Carving Design and Workmanship] Reference