04-19-2018, 10:14 AM
"Mr. Dave, I'm going to go ahead and blame it on Mr. Mike anyway." The buck stops here Grepper. 
Here's the optical fixture that Dave was referring to. It's pretty basic and magnet centric.
The scope stem is mounted in a slip-fit fixture with a locking screw. The base of this small fixture has a magnet screwed to it's base so the magnet can slide on the plate and the plate that the magnet is stuck to can slide back and forth as well. Once again, the knife is secured to the upper plate via a thin flat magnet so it can be positioned (XY) however you like.
If we want to look at an edge "edge-on" we introduce another vise (magnetic base as well) as in photo two. If we want to look at the edge at a particular angle we use an angle adjustable vise. In our opinion, the microscopic knife world needs an XYZ adjustable stage for the knife and a camera whose focus and lighting level can be adjusted remotely via a com link to the PC. As you know, everytime you touch one of these cameras to make an adjustment everything goes to "H" in a handbasket. The stage is available and don't doubt that the camera is as well. Just a matter of where you want to spend your money.
Here's the optical fixture that Dave was referring to. It's pretty basic and magnet centric.
The scope stem is mounted in a slip-fit fixture with a locking screw. The base of this small fixture has a magnet screwed to it's base so the magnet can slide on the plate and the plate that the magnet is stuck to can slide back and forth as well. Once again, the knife is secured to the upper plate via a thin flat magnet so it can be positioned (XY) however you like.
If we want to look at an edge "edge-on" we introduce another vise (magnetic base as well) as in photo two. If we want to look at the edge at a particular angle we use an angle adjustable vise. In our opinion, the microscopic knife world needs an XYZ adjustable stage for the knife and a camera whose focus and lighting level can be adjusted remotely via a com link to the PC. As you know, everytime you touch one of these cameras to make an adjustment everything goes to "H" in a handbasket. The stage is available and don't doubt that the camera is as well. Just a matter of where you want to spend your money.