sharpness test

Greg said:
I use the same test except I use a page of a telephone book.
Greg
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Same here, I use the paper of the A.G. Russell catalogue :). As I have said a few times, it is possible to do it with cigarette paper, but it gets pretty difficult.
 
instead of full stands, how about 5 degree wedges to stick under the stand

for leveling the upper surface, all I can think of is if - do you hold the blade with the flat (saber/low hollow grind) parallel to the ground/spine perpendicular, or do you place it with the primary grind parallel to the ground.
 
I don't know how Nozh is doing it, but when I was playing around with an angled stone (I used wedges under a japanese waterstone holder, not as nice as Nozh's setup because the wedges tended to slide somewhat) I was holding the handle parallel to the ground/table. Since you are looking from the top, you can not really see whether the blade is parallel anyways, but you get a petty good feel for it, when you hold the handle parallel to the ground.
 
HoB said:
I don't know how Nozh is doing it, but when I was playing around with an angled stone (I used wedges under a japanese waterstone holder, not as nice as Nozh's setup because the wedges tended to slide somewhat) I was holding the handle parallel to the ground/table. Since you are looking from the top, you can not really see whether the blade is parallel anyways, but you get a petty good feel for it, when you hold the handle parallel to the ground.
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I support my stone holder to whatever angles I choose and hold the handle parallel to the counter and it works good for me. I don't get sliding because I use the backsplash of the counter to as the back up for whatever I lay my stones on (usually other stone holders) and I don't get sliding.

Mike
 
I glue to my base leather on each side so it will not slide - you may see it on picture.

2 HoB - I replied to your mail.

Thanks, Vassili.
 
nozh2002 said:
I glue to my base leather on each side so it will not slide - you may see it on picture.

2 HoB - I replied to your mail.

Thanks, Vassili.
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Yes, your setup is much more sophisticated than what I have used. I just used a simple wooden wedge underneath the base I was using anyways. I got the idea one day when I say pictures of a japanese blade smith sharpening a Katana. They work on the floor but otherwise they use the same technique as you do.

I replied to your email, but when I wanted to sent the email of I found out that the movie is 235 MB large. How do I get this smaller. I have never worked with movies, only with pictures. I took the movie with my regular film camera :(.
 
HoB said:
Yes, your setup is much more sophisticated than what I have used. I just used a simple wooden wedge underneath the base I was using anyways. I got the idea one day when I say pictures of a japanese blade smith sharpening a Katana. They work on the floor but otherwise they use the same technique as you do.

I replied to your email, but when I wanted to sent the email of I found out that the movie is 235 MB large. How do I get this smaller. I have never worked with movies, only with pictures. I took the movie with my regular film camera :(.
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I am also not really goo with video - may be you'll try to made it shorter. YourTube accept no more then 100M videos, anyway. May be you make it in sevweral clips?

Thanks, Vassili.
 
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