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Again, this thread is simply addresses whether people in the past used convex hones. It is not here to address the technical claims of honing in said fashion. No one is pushing the issue of technical...

Again this thread is just documenting evidence of the fact that this way of honing was something actually done in history. I really don't care if the edge is concave or not tbh. First source actually...

The translation is what came through Google Translate and some weak German I learned in highschool over 17 years ago. Yeah it ain't perfect but it paints the picture. You can take the translation...

Leitfaden zur Anfertigung Mikroskopischer Dauerpraparate 1893

Page 27

https://www.google.com/books/edition/Leitfaden_zur_Anfertigung_mikroskopische/7ETPAAAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=konvex

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This thread is more about the fact that it isn't just some idea out of the blue and has real historicity. Not really interested in the practical claims anymore it's been beaten to death imo. We'll...

I totally get you with the minutiae thing. You also have the balance of tradeoffs for any particular method of honing. Even if it was universally recognized that the convex hone creates a 'better'...

A large part of the discussion around the convex hone has been quite unfortunate imo.

First you have the historicity of the idea itself, which I never really doubted, but I can see how some would...

Yes the convex hone. Not really about the hone itself but I know that some are skeptical of the historicity of the claim. I was pointed to a text which would seem to verify that the idea was around...