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The other day I was watching a Fine Woodworking YouTube podcast. One of the fellows read a quote by Greg Lemon, who responded to the question, “Does Bike racing get easier”? “It never gets easier,...

The trick to using high magnification or any magnification for that matter is understanding what you are seeing. Not what direction a scratch goes, how deep it looks, or how much detail you see, but...

Yea, it’s the Chinese tape on eBay, here is a guy selling 19mm for $3.91 per roll. EBay Kapton tape.

It works well for honing, don’t know about other uses.

For a true micro bevel, you only need a few laps, on a well finished edge. Sometimes as few as 2-3 with no pressure, so a piece of scotch tape will work just fine. The shiny tape seems a bit tougher...

A Microbevel with a piece of Scotch tape or Kapton (eBay) is helpful with microchipping.

Since you are experimenting

Nice microscope and stone. You can make an angled mount with a piece of ¼ in foam sheet,( a buck at wall mart) and a magnet sheet, (cheap advertising), once you get the angle right it saves a lot of...

Paul, it is all about smaller stria to get a straighter edge. With naturals the grit is unknow, so the only way is trial and error, looking at the bevels to see if you are going in the right...