Thread: Latest custom builds

Originally Posted by silverloaf

nope. its roughly 30 degrees effective cutting angle. good grief, thats about what my axes are, for some reason I pictured microtomes being a more acute angle than that.
I might be wrong on that angle, I don't know formulas too well so I had to go oldschool. now the bigger question is this: what is the actual width of the "spine" created using that frameback? the diameter of the frame is 16mm but the points where it contacts the hone are not across the diameter of the frame but slightly down from the "equator." so the measure between those points would be the spine width...... what is it?

30 mm x 16mm. Distance where the frameback spine hits the hone and to the edge diameter of the frameback at the point of contacting the hone! Seems you have not divided by 2 somewhere! Lord knows! I certainly don't!