Thread: Chamfering CFs

Originally Posted by nun2sharp

Why do you guys chamfer, its just extra work?

I always chamfer hone edges and corners, at least the top edges. If you accidentally drop something on the unchamfered edge or bump it, it can chip into the hone surface. You see this a lot on vintage jnats, many people do not chamfer stones in Japan. As far as honing goes, there's probably no reason.

Cheers, Steve

A little strip of sanding paper is what I use to round all the sharp edges. Nothing more than just a touch, because anything more I find a waste of the width of a stone. Most natural stones aren't that wide to begin with. Of course to each his own

I chamfer all of them to help offset my inherent clumsiness. The last thing that I worry about is wearing a stone out LOL.

Wearing a stone out? Reducing width? We're talking about fractions of a mm. Like 10-15 thousandths of an inch.

Am I missing some important parts of the discussion? I've done that before...

Cheers, Steve

Originally Posted by nun2sharp

Why do you guys chamfer, its just extra work?

I chamfered my Chosera because someone told me to. For my hard finishing stones, I found that I sometimes caught the edge of the blade in odd ways on the unchamfered edge when doing things like rolling x.

Originally Posted by Piet

A little strip of sanding paper is what I use to round all the sharp edges. Nothing more than just a touch, because anything more I find a waste of the width of a stone. Most natural stones aren't that wide to begin with. Of course to each his own

Totally agree with you. A true chamfer is is in principal a sharp edge with more potential for possible micro pitting along that edge. Too enthusiastic and a chamfer can really eat a stone.

I actually round mine as mentioned above after a small chamfer to get things going.

For the sake of the thread, this quote is from the 'obi' or belt around a Shapton professional stone: 'Chamfering the top edges of the stone from time to time is an excellent technique.' It goes on to describe ways to chamfer edges neither of which I use.

Cheers, Steve