where does this phrase in blade lingo come from?

Found it! Mind you this was the factory edge and I'm not showing off any sharpening skills:

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Holy hell that's a thicka$$ hair lmao
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That's what I was thinking. I think I got shoe laces for my Allen Edmonds that are about that gauge.

Nice photo though. Sal ought to be very proud ! He / his people (here and there) make good stuff.

As far as patience and stropping yes that's one way but all the plane blades in this stack are hair whittling . . . meaning :

With the jeweler's visor I can take any one of them to a hair that is still in my arm and shave little curls off along the length of the hair. Pretty controllably; curls right along.

Zero stropping. Just a sharpening jig and about six to ten one way (pull) passes on each of four or five stones starting with 220 or 300ish, 700, 2000, 5000 and 8000 all SHAPTON or OLD Norton water stones. I just go through the motions and . . .
VIOLA !

I/we/you can hit it every time.

Now free hand takes a bit of holding your tongue just right but still can do it.





Why make woodworking blades that sharp ? Well it is a by product of making the edge bevels flat and accurate and then highly polishing them. Why ? You may ask again.
Here you go : the wood surface is cut so clean, flat and accurate it has a reflection to it even before any finish is put on. There is no finish on this table top , just bare wood right off the hand plane (never any sand paper) and no finish on the end grain on the same table up on it's end to plane the ends of the table.

So . . . to make the edges work the way I want/need them to they just turn out hair whittling. It's fun though.





 
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Oh yah . . . I got all off on the whittling and the question was popping.
Well let me say THIS about that.
My opinion is :
A knife is sharper if the hair just piles up and you DON'T feel them popping . . . if you don't feel any thing.
If there is a pop then IN MY OPINION the blade is catching on the hair, putting the hair in tension, then FINALLY being FORCED through the material, the hair, and then once it gets through the hair . . . the hair is no longer stretched and it snaps back to its original length and that is the "POP".

If you think about it if a blade is so sharp it cuts through hair and you don't feel it the edge is even sharper.
NOW
to do that
a very shallow grind helps immensely and that is not what some of these larger knives have and for good reason, so, a more obtuse sharpening angle, a bit thicker blade and we get more of a pop than a "______" .
(that was no sound/no sensation by the way).
 
I haven't smelled a good ol' hair fire for a while now

Wow bagger, that is really neat. I didn't know raw wood could have such a nice finish right out of a planer like that.
 
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Gorgeous work Bagger! I'd swear there was a finish on that wood!
Joe
 
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