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Excellent - I like that, Rob. It could also cover 'ramming' and "thrusting', but 'piercing' seems to be more appropriate.

Regards,
Neil

You are correct Rob. I still cannot get an online translation of 'keilscliff' but I forget the germans have an inconvenient habit of tagging words together, so I tried 'keil schliff' and got back...

My Heartring Stosser is a quarter hollow - nowhere near a wedge.

And I can't find a literal definition of Keilschliff online"?

Regards,
Neil

I dont think so, I mean that the blanks were just that, blank razor shaped bits of steel, either hand forged or pressed out of a sheet with a tilt hammer, untempered, and very thick to allow for...

I think you are correct Oz.

I have seen mention of 50 and 60 rpm, but it wasn'coupled with any other data. Some of those water troughs weredivided into three sections, for instance, so that three...

I haven't really got a good answer to that, Darl.

One would think that the speeds would be constrained by the water mill providing the motive force, turning slower or faster according to the whim...

I would say that a professional grinder would never use the side of the hone. With the type of sandstone used for the wheels in Sheffield, the grinders were frequently injured by the stones flying...

They do exist.

1. Loads of frameback blades are ground to be wedge like, especially swedish ones.

2. 'Rattlers are ground on the bottom section with the grinding wheel parallel to the spine,...