Can I Get A Video Tutorial of the SWATs?!

[Zamfir]

great idea Tom! brass plug. That will help some. I will have to think on the “readjust” the swat makes once you tighten the screw..it does move a bit to make it flat..I think maybe that can be overcome by pushing on the swat the right way while holding it and holding the stone to the swat..I will have to tinker with that.

I do see where Iwaller is coming from. I agree with Tcmeyer it works just fine. But could it be better suited for the upgrade arms.. yes.

I think there could be a change of them that would work better for both styles of arms rather then perfectly working (the stones align up with the full paddle) for the old arms and sorta working (paddles only partially align up) for the new arms.

[Gerald Welsby]

Hi guys,
remember the good ol’ days when there weren’t any SWATs or VSTAs? You’d set your angle, sharpen with the first stone, move to the next grit and check the angle with your Angle Cube and sharpen again. And again and again through all the grits you were using. Then came the godsend, the VSTA. Now, imagine you are resharpening a knife with a 15 dps bevel and a 19 dps secondary. You set your 15 degree angle and sharpen away. However, you are starting with your stone resting on the shoulder of the secondary. By the time you form a burr the angle will be somewhere between the 15 and 19. In the old days you’d achieve the 15 degrees by successively adjusting the angle. With the VSTA you finish with what you start with.
Just a thought.
Gerald.

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