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Job and Blues: very helpful. Job, what magnification?

Originally Posted by jgjgjg

Job and Blues: very helpful. Job, what magnification?

Supposed to be X600. If I raise the scope some millimetres it zooms in really close.

Originally Posted by jgjgjg

I didn't really dilute the slurry. The honing action tends to knock a bunch of slurry out of the way, and I would add some water when dry. Today I'll do some honing with no slurry.

What kind of slurry stone are you using?
Maybe try to figure out some strokes where you don't loose the slurry?

Gents, I got a new camera. This one replaces the eyepiece on my microscope. Feeling pretty good about this one. See what you think.

Calibration slide. Objective marked "4" and eyepiece marked .5x Now, does this mean "2x"? I don't know: you tell me. Note that this calibration slide is .01mm per div. It looks a helluva lot 'bigger' than my 10x jewelers loupe.



This one is labeled 10. with the eyepiece labeld .5x I will call this setup "yellow band" after the yellow band on the objective.



All further pictures will be using the 'yellow band' setup.

Wusthoff Kitchen Knife and Atoma 120 Grit



Wusthoff w/1000gr Chosera



Wusthoff with Kameoka Aoto. Aframes Tokyo calls this a "7" fineness out of 10.



Dovo on a Nakayama stone. Aframes Tokyo rates this as a 9 fineness



Same Dovo, stropped



THis is the calibration slide with an objective labeled 40 and the .5x eyepiece.



This is the Nakayama grit with that 40 objective. What is that red thing? I don't know...

That little scope is impressive I have to say. I use a Zeiss microscope at my job and its about 60 grand with out some of the optical lens. For what ever you paid for it, it was well spent. The pics looked very nice of the blades and the lines on the bevel. It has very good definition and resolution.

Originally Posted by jgjgjg

Gents, I got a new camera. This one replaces the eyepiece on my microscope. Feeling pretty good about this one. See what you think.

Calibration slide. Objective marked "4" and eyepiece marked .5x Now, does this mean "2x"? I don't know: you tell me. Note that this calibration slide is .01mm per div. It looks a helluva lot 'bigger' than my 10x jewelers loupe.



This one is labeled 10. with the eyepiece labeld .5x I will call this setup "yellow band" after the yellow band on the objective


All further pictures will be using the 'yellow band' setup.

Wusthoff Kitchen Knife and Atoma 120 Grit



Wusthoff w/1000gr Chosera



Wusthoff with Kameoka Aoto. Aframes Tokyo calls this a "7" fineness out of 10.



Dovo on a Nakayama stone. Aframes Tokyo rates this as a 9 fineness


Same Dovo, stropped

THis is the calibration slide with an objective labeled 40 and the .5x eyepiece.


This is the Nakayama grit with that 40 objective. What is that red thing? I don't know...

Looks like it gives good pictures.

I take it you don't do a lot of strokes on the Nakayama. It dosnt have that speckley jnat look.

Job, that was a pyramid from 20. I don't k ow if that is a 'lot'. I am assuming the jnat look is a function of magnification and that the more zoom the more scratchy?

Originally Posted by jgjgjg

Job, that was a pyramid from 20. I don't k ow if that is a 'lot'. I am assuming the jnat look is a function of magnification and that the more zoom the more scratchy?

I've never used the pyramid system so I'm unsure what it entails . Maybe going backwards n forwards on grits ?

What kind of slurry do you use on the Nakayama and how long do you spend on it.

Here is a picture , its old so I cant quite remember but it looks like over 5 mins on the Nakayama with a Tomo. (All scratches are replaced with that sand blasted look)

I may be using the term pyramid incorrectly, but 20 on this side then 20 on that side then 19 om this side, etc....

So 162 strikes on each side?

I don't know if that's"many". What magnification are you using in that photo. I was using a tomo Nagra with a mild slurry.

I think aoto photo above is going in the direction of the haze. Maybe this nakayama isn't as fine as I thought or as it was advertised?

Originally Posted by jgjgjg

I may be using the term pyramid incorrectly, but 20 on this side then 20 on that side then 19 om this side, etc....

So 162 strikes on each side?

I don't know if that's"many". What magnification are you using in that photo. I was using a tomo Nagra with a mild slurry.

I think aoto photo above is going in the direction of the haze. Maybe this nakayama isn't as fine as I thought or as it was advertised?

If it was from Aframes then it should be as advertised.

162 laps and no haze. I don't know why that is.

Maybe try not counting , take a slurry and use circles and strokes until it darkens, then dump a bit of slurry and add a touch of water, repeat 3 times then start again.
See how it turns out, maybe the lack of circles could be a factor?

Ideally I like to have no synthetic marks left on the bevel although some do remain .

My magnification is x400 , not sure if I believe that though????