Steve56
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Try 3 layers of electrical tape.
Try 3 layers of electrical tape.
Yep. I'll pick up some digital calipers on there way home from work tomorrow and check my working. Thanks for the pointers!
Let me know if it works, please. I’ve encountered one recently.
Let me know if it works, please. I’ve encountered one recently.
This explains why my last ditch effort when I see blades behaving up until I hit higher grits then they start failing tests - is add more tape. Has worked a hand full of times now and now I know whyYW sir, I am glad that it worked for you.
The one that I encountered would not hold an edge above 8k, you could see shiny lines on the apex with a loupe after stropping, the shiny lines are where metal has broken out of the apex under the stress of stropping. You could see it a little before stropping too, but the important thing is that you can see such failures with a loupe if you look.
About the only thing that you can do is add tape to the spine to increase the bevel angle to a point that the steel is thick enough to hold a high grit edge.
The one that I honed had a native (no tape) bevel angle of 19.8 degrees. That a CVH couldn’t hold an edge above 8k with a ~20 degree bevel angle flabbergasted me, but there ya have it.