Small Pocket Microscopes

I don't have that one, but I have a similar cheap one. Can't go wrong for the price.

Notice that the customers that bought it also bought marijuana related items...books, etc? They use them to check the thc crystals on the buds of their plants :)
 
I use a Carson 60-100 led unit. Works fine for me but I heard other folks complain that it was too hard to use.
 
I have a cheapo jeweler's loupe too. I have learned a lot by using it often to look at my edges while sharpening. I have observed how a burr behaves with differences in pressure and changes of grit.
 
Bionicam is pretty neat but for 100 bucks I could get a decent nikon microscope or something similiar.
Either way I just use a jewelers loupe.
 
I mostly use a Radio Shack 3 lense magnifier . Each lense being 5X and it allows one to stack them . At 15X eye relief is critical but 10X gives good flexiable use . DM
 
I use an Optivisor with a #7 lens board. I find that when sharpening, I can see the burr before I can feel it. So my blades last longer because I don't have to remove as much material to determine when to stop grinding/polishing on a certain stone.
 
I did buy a pocket microscope specifically to look at edges. It was a 60-100x Radio Shack special. While it is neat to use, it doesn't really matter. It seems like you don't really learn anything by sight that you can't figure out easily some other way. If the knife isn't sharp, but has a burr, you didn't need the microscope to figure it out. If it is dull but doesn't have a burr, obviously you just have more work to do, and once again, you didn't need the microscope to figure it out.

If you want one, get it for the fun of it. IMO, though, they aren't that great for figuring out where you are messing up.

Everything I am saying is in reference to my cheapy 100x, once you move up to something bigger/better, that may change.
 
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