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Figured I would post this in the off chance it hasn't already been covered and someone finds themselves in a situation without access to calipers.

With a decent flexible metal, polyvinyl, cloth etc... tape you can measure the circumstance of the grindstone. This will reduce any error or discrepancy  by more than a third (π to be exact) when converting to diameter, opposed to quickly measuring the radius where it would be doubled.

*See example figures in the pictures below

The metallic tape is a Starrett Stix. It's 4' with both metric and Imp. I think it was $4

The two others are just run of the mill tapes that are spring wound like a regular tape measure.

I've recently purchased some new supplies for my sharpening room, including this new cabinet to reorganize things and a couple 3/4" heavy duty rubber mats. Figured I would share a couple of them that could be relevant/useful to Tormek users.

I just received this cabinet and threw some stuff inside to show its size to scale with things everyone would recognize, it's not the way I'm keeping everything or in the right location. I have considered using it as an alternative stand as Tormek's Rubber Mat fits very nicely on top but I would use something hard underneath to distribute the weight more evenly because it's obviously not designed for that. It's too soon to judge how well it's going to hold up or make recommendations yet but I will say it was very budget friendly... About $90 to my door.