Sropping materials by Clay
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Tap the “wickededge wrote” in the above post. It links to the quote.
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What is, for example, µ? I mean the underground like cow leather or balse or kangaroo leather.
For some reason the symbol didn’t show up properly. That’s supposed to be the micron symbol – µ. As for the post, that’s one that I think Kyle did. The 1.0, 0.5 and 0.25 micron sprays are from Handamerican. The 0.125 CBN, 0.050 and 0.025 poly-diamond are from Ken Schwartz. I used kangaroo for everything below 0.5 microns so my setup was a pair of kangaroo strops with the 0.25 diamond on one side and the 0.125 CBN on the other and then another pair with the 0.050 and 0.025. It’s hard to say at that small of a particle whether one kind of crystal is working better than another, especially since they’re different grits. I can say that the new Poly Diamond Emulsions we’re offering at higher grits work incredibly well, partially because the poly-diamonds are sharp and fracture rather than wear, creating more sharp little points, and because the concentration in the emulsions is so high.
-Clay
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Thanks Clay. Did you increase the angle with the kangaroo leather? (It’s pretty thin.) And what backing material did you use for the materials above 0.5 mu?
I lowered the angle before stropping by 2 degrees. That’s especially important because thinner stones/strops work at a higher angle automatically in the same position as thicker materials. For the higher grit compounds I just used cow leather.
-Clay
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I was impressed, so I wrote a blog post on this. This makes the method easier to find (at least to me): blog post link
Molecule Polishing: my blog about sharpening with the Wicked Edge
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