Alan Yip Choy
@yipchoy
active 5 years, 9 months ago-
Alan Yip Choy started the topic Articulating Vice Jaws? in the forum Product Announcements 5 years, 9 months ago
Hi Folks,
since I do not have any mechanical engineering skills, I would like to throw this out to the brain trust here. Is there any way to make a set of articulating vice jaws that would adjust themselves to various blade cross sections such as daggers. I am aware of the current work around of applying foam tape to the existing jaws but the…[Read more]
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Alan Yip Choy replied to the topic Diamond Stones shaped for convex edges in the forum Product Announcements 6 years, 7 months ago
Hi Folks,
I was not clear enough. I meant that the stones would actually be curved in a very slight C curve not cross sectionally (SP?) as the ceramics that you sent me the link for (I have a pair of these already). Sort of like the brackets that I used in this post.
Thanks again for your replies.
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Alan Yip Choy started the topic Diamond Stones shaped for convex edges in the forum Product Announcements 6 years, 7 months ago
Is it possible to make diamond stones that are shallow curved along their length in order to handle convex edges?
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Alan Yip Choy replied to the topic Stone progression in sharpening high end stylist's scissors. in the forum Main Forum 6 years, 7 months ago
Many thanks Beckbuilt. My son is a professional salon stylist and his scissors are all convex edged. Your description of your workflow and tools used tells me that I am way out of my league here. So my son will have to continue using the outfit that he is currently using, even though he complains that his shears do not stay sharp as long as they used to.
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Alan Yip Choy started the topic Stone progression in sharpening high end stylist's scissors. in the forum Main Forum 6 years, 8 months ago
I would greatly appreciate some advice on the stone progression used when sharpening high end hair stylist’s scissors.
Thanks in advance for any advice that you can give.
Alan
