Nick
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Is it practical to touch up or sharpen the round ci3 using the Diamond credit card hones, by using the hone with the cutter on the flat side? Opinions?
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Is it practical to touch up or sharpen the round ci3 using the Diamond credit card hones, by using the hone with the cutter on the flat side? Opinions?
Thank you
Is it practical to touch up or sharpen the round ci3 using the Diamond credit card hones, by using the hone with the cutter on the flat side? Opinions?
Thank you
Nick. It depends on what you consider sharp !! If you can shave the hairs off your arm, that's sharp. Hones are usualy ment to do just that, hone, not sharpen. They take off the microscopic curl or fingernail of a sharpened object. If you are going to sand your project, you don't need to have your tools that sharp. If you are going to plane or carve a surface and not sand or use a scraper on it, they need to be super sharp. You should be able to look at the edge of your tool and see no light reflection on it. Many people, including myself, will use the touch-up stones to renew an edge while working rather than take the time out to resharpen the tool completely. A realy realy sharp tool will have a polished edge that shines like a mirror. This is achieved by stropping on leather, as the barbers did with their razors, using light machine oil with rotten stone, or oil and pumas. Mirror finishes can also be obtained using a series of Water stones ending with 8,000 grit or higher. Jim S
Is it practical to touch up or sharpen the round ci3 using the Diamond credit card hones, by using the hone with the cutter on the flat side? Opinions?
Thank you
Nick. It depends on what you consider sharp !! If you can shave the hairs off your arm, that's sharp. Hones are usualy ment to do just that, hone, not sharpen. They take off the microscopic curl or fingernail of a sharpened object. If you are going to sand your project, you don't need to have your tools that sharp. If you are going to plane or carve a surface and not sand or use a scraper on it, they need to be super sharp. You should be able to look at the edge of your tool and see no light reflection on it. Many people, including myself, will use the touch-up stones to renew an edge while working rather than take the time out to resharpen the tool completely. A realy realy sharp tool will have a polished edge that shines like a mirror. This is achieved by stropping on leather, as the barbers did with their razors, using light machine oil with rotten stone, or oil and pumias. Mirror finishes can also be obtained using a series of Water stones ending with 8,000 grit or higher. Jim S
You can strop carbide? Never heard of that unless you are using diamond paste. The products you mention won't touch carbide. Carbide will cut grooves in water stones nearly instantly. Pretty sure no one can shave with a carbide cutter either.
Is it practical to touch up or sharpen the round ci3 using the Diamond credit card hones, by using the hone with the cutter on the flat side? Opinions?
Thank you
Nick. It depends on what you consider sharp !! If you can shave the hairs off your arm, that's sharp. Hones are usualy ment to do just that, hone, not sharpen. They take off the microscopic curl or fingernail of a sharpened object. If you are going to sand your project, you don't need to have your tools that sharp. If you are going to plane or carve a surface and not sand or use a scraper on it, they need to be super sharp. You should be able to look at the edge of your tool and see no light reflection on it. Many people, including myself, will use the touch-up stones to renew an edge while working rather than take the time out to resharpen the tool completely. A realy realy sharp tool will have a polished edge that shines like a mirror. This is achieved by stropping on leather, as the barbers did with their razors, using light machine oil with rotten stone, or oil and pumias. Mirror finishes can also be obtained using a series of Water stones ending with 8,000 grit or higher. Jim S
You can strop carbide? Never heard of that unless you are using diamond paste. The products you mention won't touch carbide. Carbide will cut grooves in water stones nearly instantly. Pretty sure no one can shave with a carbide cutter either.
Carbide is a gereral name for many compounds, so let's just skip to the one we are interested in, Tungsten Carbide. This is an inorganic coumpound containing equal parts of tungsten and carbon, that appears as a fine gray power, but can be formed and pressed into shapes for use in abrasives, armor-piercing projectiles, industrial machines, and of course cutting tools amoung others. Tungsten carbide is twice as stiff as steel, with a Young's modulies of 550 GPA, and is denser than both steel and titanium.
Now, to answer your questions, can you strop carbide? Yes! Can you strop tungsten carbide? Yes! Can you sharpen tungsten carbide ? Yes! But, you will have to use cubic boron or diamond dust in the form of powers, compounds, pastes, wheels, or diamond inpregnated wetstones or inpregnated stainless steel bars. The credit card diamond hones will dress an edge, but I wouldn't consider sharpening the whole tool with it. Seems you aren't using the correct water stones in the propper manner. Any tool used improperly on a regular water stone will dig in, even a butter knife. I have watched lumber jacks shave with a full size axe, handel and all, made out of steel !! So I would think that if you can't shave with your carbide cutter, it can't be all that sharp !! I sharpen my carbide router and shaper bits, depending on size, with daimond files, hones, or a 8" X 3" diamond bench stone. In 50+ years of collecting and sharpening old tools, I have never found a need to own a carbide tipped tool other than the cutters mentioned above. I have never tried this, but I would think you could polish carbide with pumais and oil or kerosene, seeing it's volcanic glass. Jim S