wickededge

It’s currently a mess:

1. Manufacturers use a host of different grit measurements
2. Their specific grits are based on average particle sizes but don’t always match what we can measure here
3. We’re limited in our measurements to particles at a few microns
4. Ceramic stones that are either sintered or vitrified don’t conform to any standard scale and…

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Wait til you guys see what we have planned! It’s still in development, but I am really excited about getting it completed.

Sounds fascinating!

I’ll ask Chris, our developer about it.

I think part of what’s missing is the Wiki we had that was lost during the move to a new platform. The Knowledge Base is designed to replace it, but is lacking that element of user contribution that the Wiki had. I’d like for us to develop some mechanism for user generated content to make its way into the KB, probably via some sort of curation…[Read more]

That job is shared between a few of us but it’s not receiving the attention it deserves. It’s on our 2019 plan to fill it out and update it more thoroughly.

These are the same 3 micron stones that we used to carry and discontinued for quality reasons, namely that the manufacturing method hasn’t been perfected and there are often very large clusters of diamonds on the stones, sometimes measuring 50-100 microns. My understanding is that localized magnetic fields are created during the plating process…[Read more]

Welcome Duke!

Welcome Brian!

We’re working on that as well. They are former manufacturing partners in direct violation of our NDA and patent.

NorCalQ – not to worry. Both sets of ceramic stones also have a break in period. The 1200/1600 stones have something called the “kiln layer”. We use a process called “shot siding” to remove most of the kiln layer, but it’s imperfect and would result in damage to the stones if it were run too long. For that reason, new 1200/1600 stones always have…[Read more]

Thanks bwrightmcs3 – I think we got them shut down via eBay’s IP protection department but please let me know if you see them pop up again.

That’s pretty slick Tom!

Thanks Doug. We’re on it now. It’s super frustrating when people knock off your products!

You might also try applying a little convex geometry to the edge.

It’s hard to tell what it would score on the HHT because he’s only slicing along the fiber instead of trying to bisect it. The fiber is also very rigid. Note how it hardly deflects while it’s being cut.