Thread: CBN strops.... a thought

Originally Posted by ScienceGuy

Sorry to continue the OT, just had to chime in here... as someone with a background in chemistry and currently researching in solid state materials science, I can add to what else has been said here - aside from anecdotes or personal experience, I can tell you the science says that glass will not flow over any kind of human (or even earth-age) timescale. The fusing you speak of can be explained otherwise. This is the reason that 1000+ year old Roman glass artifacts still exist, some in their original fine detail. To get glasses to flow you need to go above the glass-transition temperature.

OK... I give up (but don't concede defeat...I could further back up my position, but it is off topic). Just as a clue, what do you think is happening when glass is heated to the point it becomes obviously molten and readily flows? Going down in temperature, at what temperature does this phenomena cease? or does it not cease? Keep in mind that you are not dealing with a crystalline material at any stage in the heating or cooling cycle, just an amorphous solid decreasing or increasing in viscosity with temperature.

Your thread. Derail it all you want... Won't help you learn anything about razors tho.

Originally Posted by onimaru55

Your thread. Derail it all you want... Won't help you learn anything about razors tho.

I'm really here to learn proven techniques on honing, and enjoy the camaraderie with people of similar interest. The question of whether glass is a viscous liquid that flows, or not, while interesting to me, is not really germane to learning honing techniques, and is apparently getting some posters upset with me. So, i don't think I'm "derailing" the topic, just trying to get back on topic.

Originally Posted by DoctorSaul

I'm really here to learn proven techniques on honing, and enjoy the camaraderie with people of similar interest. The question of whether glass is a viscous liquid that flows, or not, while interesting to me, is not really germane to learning honing techniques, and is apparently getting some posters upset with me. So, i don't think I'm "derailing" the topic, just trying to get back on topic.

IME it is not, but then again, I've had an awful lot of viscous liquid flow into glass, and then into me ...... and out ......... but to get back on topic ......... I like honing too.