Things are not always what they seem or just aren't as fun as could be.
Mathew,
From Eratosthenes 300 B.C. to Magellan and Elcano in 1522 A.D.
Some times it takes a while for things to sink in.
I wouldn't wait around for the flock to get it together.
Could be a long and tedious ordeal.
I suggest we go to the stones and let these guys . . . well . . . do what ever this is called.
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Sorry to sound so dismissive.
Things were getting all "Ruler is the only way"
I just hate it when it turns into such a dead horse being beaten once again.
I do not want to start offending Derek or David Charlesworth again. That is AWFUL, AWFUL, AWFUL !
I guess that is what I am trying to say. I am just done with all the unfriendlyness.
and yet I like arguing.
OK so I didn't run the edge parallel to the long dimension of the stone. I see how that would change things. I still won't be using the ruler trick again because of the uneven wear (in the past I would call them trenches but in the sprite of detan(sp) we will call it wear . . .
that the small strokes, near the edge , here and there causes to my flat stones.
Trying to gip the blade and move it with the edge parallel to the long dimension of the stone and travel the long direction of the stone while very little of the blade overlaps the stone is even more tedious and tenuous a purchase than before.
Back in the old days when I first heard of the ruler trick I am sure the idea was to move perpendicular to the ruler across the short dimension of the stone and that is what I am particularly railing against. In fact I looked it up incase I have have been, shame for shame, wrong all these many years,. See photos.
(to the people here from the old posts doesn't it seams like centuries that we have been refighting this battle ?).
Enjoy the new version if you must.
Now I think I am conflabergasting two techniques. I think the ruler trick, sorry, The Ruler Trick, could be better at producing a flat facet if run the length of the ruler rather than perpendicular to it. But again I don't need to use it in any form.
Trying to keep slurry off the stone rather than use it to stick the ruler down with, and putting enough water on the stone, thus floating the ruler all lead to
FOR ME
a senario where the ruler slips around and off the stone. Which ever direction I choose to flail the blade.
I think David really has a great handle on this sharpening fast thing.
How ever Ha, ha,
then I read something that is the opposite of what I have found to be true. Like the short strokes is less stiction. There are a few others that don't come immediately to mind.
As we keep saying over and over YMMV.
But I don't see why they should.
PS: how much pressure am I applying. Medium. My fingers are crunched up pretty good but I ain't farting. The pop off valve signifies maximum torque setting or in this case downward force.