Thread: X-pattern: A strange thought

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

Lou, the rolling hone method as I understand is for smileys. Look up an old thread (very long, 10 pages) called "the science of pyramids." Unfortunately for me who wants to understand that subject, it's dropped after the 2nd post without any real explanation. Fortunately for you who wants to understand the rolling hone, there's a superb diagram of what's going on with that, done up by Superfly on the 8th or 9th page of the thread. One look at it and you'll understand perfectly. One picture is not a thousand words but 10,000 words in this case.

Excellent - thanks, Dylan

-Lou

EDIT: For anyone following this thread, here's a link to the thread:

The Science of Pyramids

and here are Superfly's drawings:

Rolling Hone 1

Rolling Hone 2

No problem Lou. The real thanks should go to Superfly. And to you for posting the link. It should go into the help files.

Reading through that old post made me miss Joe Lerch. Such a scientist and a skeptic and an experimenter. And an arguer! Joe was one cool cat. Some of the theoretical discussions that used to get going between him and PapaBull and Randydance, et al...