Question: How to start a flat grind on contact wheel

I do it on all stock removal blades. I only do it with some of my forged blades, because most of them don't need a whole lot of steel hogged off.
A contact wheel cuts faster and cooler. So you can hog off steel FAST and increase belt life by cutting in a few hollow facets first. Then switch to the flat platen to smooth it out.
It's definitely not more work, it's a lot less work and much faster.
I showed it in this---

Awesome video Nick. You can watch these a hundred times, but until you grind 20 blades you just don't get the finer points.
 
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