Man… Listen. Either I’m not getting a fairly simple concept, or you aren’t. I’m about to lose the last of my mind.
All I want is for the finer grit stones to contact the bevel the same at the created, ground degree as the courser.
All things being fixed and constant, including the tilt of the blade, bevel stone contact should be constant between grits as well. The only thing variable are the paddles.
Now, to get an even bevel on a tilting blade, I’ll hold on to your formula for when I run into that problem in the future. Thank you for that.
You finally stated in clear and concise words what I asked you in the long involved post last night. I never stated you were doing some wrong or your observations were wrong. I was just asking you, trying to understand where in the grit progression you saw the difference(s). That it’s only the fine grit;1000 grit! If it’s only the last, 1000 grit that you see behaves differently, then your only choice is to try something different! You inspected it and didn’t see a problem you could fix. Your only option is to replace it. Try a different 800/1000.
Maybe the finer grit stones are worn more than the coarser stones so they don’t behave the same.
I want to thank everyone who offered advice in this issue. It was a monumental cause-check session that took an unexpected amount of man hours for you all to walk me through this.
I’m betting that this’ll be handled by WE directly.
Don’t think for a moment that I don’t recognize and appreciate you all for offering help.
Marc, I’m going to use this opportunity to rework my writing style. The past 2 days frustration will not go wasted or unlearned from. I will also buy a freaking proper, large, metal square next time we travel to a big town. No excuse not to have the basic tools on hand and organized.
tc, if this gets worked out and I have 0.00 vertical stones, I’m going to master that .5° convexing.
Again, blessings to you all, and I’ll see you at the next mystery.
The Wicked Edge team is in the process of squaring it away. One more week and I should be set.
There is one more thing I need to figure out after getting my stones back, but that’ll be a few weeks out to test and verify. If my guess is accurate, I’ll create a step a step and post it for peer review here.