Thread: simple honing under the stereo scope

Joe was able to demo this technique at the Denver meet with gasman and I trying to pick it apart, in a constructive way, in real time. Joe used his halflap and burr technique up though a Norton 8k, finishing with some alternating edge trailing strokes. The results on the scope were indistinguishable, at least to me, to an edge brought to the same level with conventional methods. Again we used the scope to observe the process, but in this case all of Joe's decisions of when to move to his next stone were done before making the scope observation.

I'm not sure how much of any of this I will bring into my honing, but it was eye opening to see that some of the things that I try to avoid apparently don't need to be avoided and can actually be useful.