Questions for the more "mature" HI experts

stripey357,

I've got some dished-out stones that are pretty much useless except for maintaining and trying to set convex edges. At least for me, it seems that a lot of the khuks don't really take the edge they should have unless it's done. Sandpaper takes much longer than using a "ruined" Oregon stone and a "ruined" 800 grit waterstone. The Oregon stone or similar will get you there, and the waterstone seems to take out the deep scratches.

Some don't take much work, some take a lot. Guess I should buy a belt grinder someday. I had to send a 3lb GRS to Art S. to get it sorted. I think it makes the relatively primitive, experience-guided heat-treat process the kamis use more critical than it needs to be. I suspect that Bura can pull off a durable hollow grind consistently, but I don"t know if all the kamis can.

Yvsa has it right IMHO.
 
Just a thought, how long do they use the abrasive wheels? Maybe they could use the ones worn down to smaller diameter only on the kardas or sell them off?
 
See my comment on the "Kami who has everything" thread.

A couple decades ago there was no trash problem in Nepal. They found a use for everything, just like the NDN's used discarded tobacco lids to fancy up the women's Pow Wow dresses. Go to Crazy Crow and look. They buy them from the factories brand new and sell them by the bunches.

Off the subject, but there's a spot I deliberately don't look at as I drive over the RR tracks in Schurz. Right by the mostly fallen down old railroad stop. See, the whites brought the railroads. And they brought chinese in to build the railroads. The chinese brought along opium.

Guess what the indians in despair turned to. And lay down in the snow passed out on opium and died there. I swear one of these times I'm going to drive through in the night and look over and see their presence that I've only up to now felt, as I pass by where they died. It's almost palpable.

Oh, by the way... after you cansider the above, ask yourself why the Ghost Dance of the 1890's that led to the massacre at Wounded Knee began on the banks of the Walker River.
 
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