hi all. I was watching some videos on youtube last night and found one of maestro livi doing a straight stock removal razor where he really went over his grinding sequence. now watching his videos is kind of wild as he must have half a dozen belt grinders, but uses hard wheels {and handheld angle grinders} for most of the grinding work, and then switches to the belts for finish work. but he roughed in the blade on a fairly large hard wheel, down to an edge, and then spoke of a "4 wheel progression" down to an extra hollow grind, using the grind lines from each wheel as a guide for the next wheel's grind. and then once the blade was ground and he had the ridges the way he wanted them, he went to a belt and cleaned the ridges out.

now ive only ground half a dozen razor blades, but this struck me as an excellent way to really control the grind as you bring it down, and to keep everything nice and even. so I went ahead and ordered 3" and 4" wheels for my 3 wheel 2x72 that I built out of a treadmill and old pop cans to try it out. I think it should work much better than hogging with a 5" wheel, and then cutting in and trying to blend with a 2" at the same time.