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I recently ground a few harpoon clips and it brought up some questions.
I have been grinding both vertically and horizontally (depending on the clip length) on my platen because they are straight clips. I have noticed that the angle of the clip needs to be different at the beginning than at the tip.
Is this correct? Because if I grind without accounting that fact, either the tip is ground to much and goes into the main bevel or the beginning of the clip at the spine gets too thin while the tip is thick.
Thinking it over, I realized that a distal taper would change this. Is a distal taper needed for the correct geometry with the clip grind totally flat? Might I not be grinding the tips thin enough?
Am I just over thinking this and I should just do whatever works to make it look right?
I have been grinding both vertically and horizontally (depending on the clip length) on my platen because they are straight clips. I have noticed that the angle of the clip needs to be different at the beginning than at the tip.
Is this correct? Because if I grind without accounting that fact, either the tip is ground to much and goes into the main bevel or the beginning of the clip at the spine gets too thin while the tip is thick.
Thinking it over, I realized that a distal taper would change this. Is a distal taper needed for the correct geometry with the clip grind totally flat? Might I not be grinding the tips thin enough?
Am I just over thinking this and I should just do whatever works to make it look right?