PhilipPasteur wrote:


Funny you should mention those particular stones just now. Today I placed our first order for those stones fitted to our handles. Just need to wait about six weeks now.

what a difference this new arms are. i had read and seen all about them, but actually using - OMG.

i wish i had ordered them long ago.

max

And what's this Balsa strop I see?

i can sure tell you the lead business has been steadily picking up. i sell random weights of old lead fishing sinkers on ebay and last few weeks - god they have been selling like hot cakes in 10lb. lots.

my buddy tells me the bullet making guys are buying all the lead.
whoever - i like it......

try to go out and buy powder...

cost me lots of ammo tooooo....[/b]new granite block...new arms & a set of 50/80's. I have been wanting the block for many months and now have new farmers market sharpening gig on sat. Thru. Nov.......it will look nice on my set up table.

LukasPop wrote:


One HUGE caveat on the 50/80s. BREAK THEM IN on something you don't care about. My initial use left such deep scoring the lines took forever to remove. If you let newer 50/80s get too close to the edge you WILL chip the edge and it takes a long time to remove those chips. After they are worn in that's less of an issue but I still wouldn't try to completely reach the apex with them. Watch closely (with a loupe or whatever) and when the deepest scratchs get near the edge switch to the 100s.

Ken

+1

So here is my attempt to explain how I line up my angles. It works well for me.

1. Put angle cube on the heavy base in front of the blue metal base of the WEPS. Zero it.
2. Lay the angle cube it on its back flush against the lip of the blue base (It will read “error”) lay a stone against the angle cube. It will stick together due to the magnets. slide them so the tops are both flush against the lip of the blue base. (Now they are both laying flat on the big base and flush against the blue base.
3. Then put the stone/cube assembly on the rod.