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Oh and I usually just use 12.5X eyepieces although I do have 20X so can use it nearer 100X if I need to.

For looking at things like this I use a Bausch and Lomb Stereozoom but it isn't a trinoc so I don't take pictures. I do own other scopes but they aren't suitable for this kind of thing - I prefer...

They cut hair perfectly well but many of them would be awkward to hold. No I'm not going to try one out as I don't really relish the thought of putting a blade against my face that has cut some...

I often look edge on when I'm doing a new to me old blade to let me see where the edge is thicker, how any chips or burrs look. Not that you really see the edge once it's sharp.
I just wish I had a...

Is it a waterstone for honing bigspender? The picture isn't too clear but it looks like a nagura to me but of course it could just be the stamp looks like nagura as kanji does have so many similar...

We can see some stones removed less metal than others as in the remaining earlier horizontal scratches in for example the shapton 30k (no surprise there) and the escher (not particularly surprising...

Well, I think Niels Bohr, Max Planck et al can rest easy for the moment. :)

The problem with dipping into Japanese waterstones is the variety and their cryptic naming schemes. Unless we get...