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03-20-2007, 11:44 PM #5
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Lou,
Sort of... I don't think I described it well. If you look at the motion from above, it looks like an X pattern. If you look at it from the side (the narrow side of the hone) you're making a very flat "U" motion, or maybe even a "ski jump". The spine and edge are simulatneously in contact with the hone, but not along the entire length of the blade where it contacts with the hone.
Given the shallowness of the U motion, you're right - in practice it's not a single point of contact, more a region of contact. And I guess you'd call it more a tranference of weight visualisation technique...
Anyway, it works for me, but I am strange Caveat Emptor, YMMV, take with a grain of salt, etc.
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