01-03-2019, 01:04 PM
YES!! Good answer, Mr Grepper! I love the last picture. I can hardly believe you can deburr with an exacto knife, but it looks like you did exactly that. It looks like you "cut" the burr completely off! Wow! It's amazing to see how much "height" you took off the edge to reveal the scratch pattern.
As you say, right under the LOW is a perfect scratch pattern. That is exactly what I've been thinking. You're right, I could not get a plain leather belt to affect the LOW either, so how you've been finishing on bare leather has been a real source of wonderment for me. 4µ diamond compound on a leather belt makes a huge difference. You can totally remove the LOW in just a few passes, without generating much, if any burr on the other side.
Will the diamond compound kill the tooth? Yes, of course. 4000 grit will do that, but the point is getting rid of the LOW quickly and completely. It only takes a few passes of the deburred edge across a coarse stone to give the edge all the tooth you want.
To me the LOW is just the base of the burr, and it's on the burr side of the blade Only. The other side is always clean, but depending on how you remove the burr, you can create another burr on the other side. Deburring on a stone makes things easier to see and identify IMHO.
As you say, right under the LOW is a perfect scratch pattern. That is exactly what I've been thinking. You're right, I could not get a plain leather belt to affect the LOW either, so how you've been finishing on bare leather has been a real source of wonderment for me. 4µ diamond compound on a leather belt makes a huge difference. You can totally remove the LOW in just a few passes, without generating much, if any burr on the other side.
Will the diamond compound kill the tooth? Yes, of course. 4000 grit will do that, but the point is getting rid of the LOW quickly and completely. It only takes a few passes of the deburred edge across a coarse stone to give the edge all the tooth you want.
To me the LOW is just the base of the burr, and it's on the burr side of the blade Only. The other side is always clean, but depending on how you remove the burr, you can create another burr on the other side. Deburring on a stone makes things easier to see and identify IMHO.