Originally Posted by
scarface
Jimbo-
Okay, I'm trying to imagine this, but it seems to me with a lapped hone and a straight blade, with the rocking motion that you described, that when you start with the toe high, the heel of the edge would start on the right edge of the hone, and as the blade is rotated through flat (where, on the flat hone, the entire edge would contact the surface of the hone), until you end up with just the toe contacting the right edge of the hone.
I guess the point I'm trying to make (and I may not be visualizing this correctly) is that it would be impossible for the point of contact to move smoothly from heel to toe on a flat hone.......wouldn't it? It seems that it would be heel, then the entire edge, and finally the toe.
-whatever
-Lou