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shaped by the ‘the Jarrod plate‘ and these papers and this to have 6.5’Ø shape on one side, 25’Ø shape on the opposite side, and the third facet without the Norton original writing has been surfaced with the aforementioned papers and a surface plate and it came out tremendously flat!
This stone’s fast, hard, fine, with delicate and precise feedback, a delightful crisp sizzle. To this author, there does not exist a finer intermediary device between early bevel shaping work from either 1) a water stone shaped to the ‘the jarrod plate’ short axis 2) or the little diamond thingies shaped the same 3) or if you’re lucky, a fancy shaped Washita shaped the same – to the Black Arkansas finisher of my preference than the concept of a good hard Arkansas shaped file as here. In fact on pieces like these I think you can very easily shave right off the 25’Ø side’s filings and love every minute of it, it is going to polish and thin the bejeezus out of your shaving edge.
You use this just like you’ve seen me do in the recent YouTube videos; as taught to me, in some way, but footage emailed to me by our mutual friend in abrasives.
This took~30mins’ grinding labor.
I wish I can offer these Norton HF43s all the time, and I try to find them daily. But the fact is, it is scarce inventory now, and if/when we could ever find 2+ of them surely the price would be lower…as yet, however, I’ve not run in to a cache of these things in my life. It should have been common at some time.
Dan’s simply needs to make a custom run for us with the knowledge that we’re just shaping them to the ‘the jarrod plate’ immediately anyways, I’m thinking ~13x13x87mm-15x15x100mm range in trans or light hued ‘true hard’ is my cup of tea.
