This Opening Post Is the Issue Being Discussed In Post # 2.

You could go either way, finish on a hard Ark and then add the tape for just a few laps to create a micro/Nano bevel, or finish on another stone, say a 12k super stone, then add the tape and do a few laps to add an Ark micro bevel.

Recently there was a post about how to apply a micro bevel on a Hart, here,

(Zowada, Nano bevel). (Beginning with post 7)

And I recall that Alex Gilmore was doing something similar with Scotch Tape on a Jnats with just 2-3 laps. (At about 1837). He also has some good micrographs of the micro bevel edge.


The Issue At hand

I had read on one of the knife forums that guys were taping blades with clear packing tape to protect the blade from scratching on knife jigs, like the Edge Pro, because it was tougher and thinner than masking tape.

They recommended the tape sold at USPS as being the toughest. I have used it, and it is tough, but most any clear tape will work, some are thicker than others and all are thinner than electrical.

Bottom line, it does not take much to create a Micro bevel on an Ark or any stone. Remember we cannot see the actual edge with less than 1,000 X. It has been described a “knocking off the corners” but really you are polishing the very edge, the fin.

Pasting a link

Why does sometimes when I copy and paste a link into a post, does the link post normally, (underlining the link topic) and other times, actually post the video.

Here is an example of this in a recent post. I am copying and pasting using the link icon in the Reply to Thread task bar, but the results are different.

Post 11.

Ive wondered this, seems no rhyme nor reason for it....

Because some of the Vids are from Youtube and they are a different type of link

It works the same way on most platforms

I havent graduated to pasting links. I still eat the paste. :)

When this happens on the forum, its due to loading both the "Link to the video" and "The video itself" on the same line in the content box/edit box.

This happens in two ways;
The OP actually wants to see both in the post. Don't know why . :shrug:
or,,,
The OP thinks that he has to load both. Then places both on the same line. The OP gets a bit confused & adds the video by using both the "Link" button and then uses the "insert video" button.

When placing a video in your post, just use the "insert video" button to place it. This displays your video only & not another hyper link to the same destination.

Euclid, I corrected your post # 11. If something is missing let me know.

@Hirlau thanks for that explaination. I think i might have even understood that one. Ive seen this done and wondered why there was two.

In this case I uploaded the link to both, as Links. The link to SRP posted hyperlinked fine. The video did not and displayed the video in the post.

I have had this happen before. I always use the link insert, not load the video, sometimes it works, sometimes not.

It is not a big problem, I feel a post is easier to read without the video in the middle of it and the reader can open the link if he chooses.
I was wondering if it was me or a programing issue, as Glen said?

Thanks.

The hyperlink was the address to the video, that's fine. Then you added the video.

This problem happens a lot, it's an operator issue but the same result is caused by placing the two on the same "text line/sentence"; this causes the thread to look like crap & sends the user's tools at the bottom of the post block, up & to the right. This almost always results in no or fewer "Likes or Thanks" for the work the poster has done.

Either way, this particular post was fixed.

Ok John, I’m not understanding you.

Here’s what I do and did in this case.

I open the post or video I want to link to, so I have the post/video in one window, the text I have written, in Word and SRP open to the forum, or post, I want to post to.

I copy the Word text, and paste, to the Reply to Thread window or New Post window.

I then highlight the text to be linked to, click the Link Icon, open the original post or video and copy the address from the address bar, and paste to the Hyper link window. Click preview to make sure it opens to the correct link and upload the post.

I do not use the Insert Video link. My goal is to make both links to post and or videos, Hyperlinks. Sometimes it works, sometimes not.

Am I doing something wrong?

Wow,,, I'm reading it for the 5th time,,, give me some time here.

In the "Reply to Thread" text box that opens, when you go to post a reply to a thread, what is the goal? Is it to post an an actual video that is visible & also a hyperlink to it?

Or ,,,, due you simply want a hyperlink to the video.?

Here, I think I see something in your explanation;

"I copy the Word text, and paste, to the Reply to Thread window or New Post window.

I then highlight the text to be linked to, click the Link Icon, open the original post or video and copy the address from the address bar, and paste to the Hyper link window. Click preview to make sure it opens to the correct link and upload the post."

When you highlight a group of words/text, then dump a hyperlink into it, you have loaded a hyperlink address onto that same sentence/line. Depending on how long the hyperlink address is & the rest of your sentence on that same line, will decide if the text box gets "widened" & distorted.

look at the front page of SRP, there are tow hyperlinks, one in the Hones & steel article & the other in the restoring the past article.
The hyperlinks are on a line of their own, no problems this way.

I'm going to bring post # 11 here in this thread & play with it, lets see if I can get the result you did.

Well Euclid, the move placed it in the opening post position, not my intention, but I will see if I can figure out where the issue is.

Euclid,,
Look at the opening post & the hyperlink I labeled as "The Issue At Hand". Your video is there. I believe this is what you wanted in the other thread on your attempt, correct?

I did as you said that you did in post # 11 of this thread.

The only big difference is that I did not develop my text in "Word" and bring it over. That may be the problem.

When I do have a lenghty statement to post, I sometimes create in Word & cut & paste into the reply box on SRP.

But,,,,,

I don't hyperlink any of the text from Word & I load my photos & videos on a line of their own, outside the paste from Word.

I hope this makes sense.

I paste from Word to the Reply to Thread, and make the hyper link from the Reply to Thread box.

But if I put the highlighted text on a separate line, it will display as an underlined text hyperlink, my goal.

Got it, that explains why sometimes it works and others it does not, sometimes I do make it a separate line.

Thanks John, good to know, has bugged me for years…