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10-10-2017, 02:09 AM #1Junior Member
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How much magnification looking at edge?
Hello, how much magnifications do you guys use and recommend? ive tried reading up on it but found conflicting advice. How much magnification would be too much?
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10-10-2017, 02:35 AM #2Senior Member
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Use as much as you need to see what you gotta see. I use 200x. Others will say a 30x loupe is enough. Maybe it depends on your eyesight.
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10-10-2017, 02:44 AM #3Senior Member
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30X
It works for me. At meets I discovered that we all get used to out loupe and if you just grab whatever loupe off the table it won't always be the view you are used to even if they are all 30xIt's not what you know, it's who you take fishing!
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10-10-2017, 04:52 AM #4Senior Member
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30X as well.
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10-10-2017, 08:42 AM #5Senior Member
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An 11x triplet magnifier (achromatic loupe) works for me. I look at the bevel by reflected light and the edge in silhouette.
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Yes, you will get lots of conflicting replies. Personally all I have ever used is a low power loupe to see what is what. From that experience I would not go to a very high magnification scope because if I can't see a problem with a 30X loupe there is no problem with the edge for the purpose of shaving with it for me. When you are first starting to hone it will take a while to properly interpret what you are seeing anyway.
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Depends on what you are looking for and how good your eyes are.
Originally Posted by Jamesalot23
I use a 10x or 14x hastings triplet (geologist hand lens).
For me the important detail I like to look for is the small pattern of ink
when I use the marker test. If a single stroke on the hone cleans the ink
to the edge of the razor toe to heel the bevel is set, my hone stroke is fine
and the edge will be fine with modern fast cutting hones.
As for magnification you can look at the grit size of your hone kit and
then do the math so you see the scratches of your rocks on steel.
I use the Shapton Glass advertisements to look up grit...
30,000 is 0.49micron ( 0.49µ).. and 1K is 14.7µ.
This sets the scratch distribution and the bounds of what you might want to look at.
Inexpensive USB microscopes will let you see more than most of us need to see.
To confound the issue read about the pyramid method some here use that mixes
grits in a systematic way. The shave is much better than the scratches from the
4k left by the last light laps on the 8k would imply.
Pyramid honing guide - Shave Library
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