Hello everyone, this is my second post and I'm a complete beginner to jewellery making.
To the point, I've started barrelling some stones to set into some jewellery projects floating around in my mind.
Whilst looking at some of the rough stones that I purchased, one caught my eye and I thought that it would look good with flat sides, and so I've since tried to smooth it's sides, using some old cheap oil stones and wet and dry that I had in the shed, but it's taking too long - or am I being too impatient? I've read through some of the posts on here and realise I need a diamond sharpening stone - a lapidary machine is too expensive.
I've looked at some sharpening stones which are advertised for sharpening steel tools (chisels etc.) Would these be OK? I'm concerned that after one use they would be worn out.

thanks
Gary