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Flattening western Blades with japanes Technic *LINK*

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Flattening western Blades with japanes Technic *LINK*

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Flattening western Blades with japanes Technic *LINK*

Rolf Schmid

>Sharpening an old blade lined up, at first sight it looked completely well, but when I wanted to flatten the mirror side, I had to state that this was very uneven.

After one hour with diamond stones, waterstones and sandpaper, I gave up then. The mirror surface had not reached yet the cutting edge.

On the next day I had the idea to try the japanese flattening technic as I did with the Japanese irons before:


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The story (Google English!!)

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Re: Flattening western Blades with japanes Technic

bill tindall

>what is translating into the English as "boiler scale"? The German word is fine as I can look up in my technical dictionary.

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Re: Flattening western Blades with japanes Technic

bill tindall

>are you using "Lime" (calcium carbonate) from evaporating water to make a polishing paste? "Schleifschlamm" has me puzzled.

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Schleifschlamm

Steve Elliott

>The original in German is Das Finish habe ich mit "Schleifschlamm" von meinen Wassersteinen gemacht.

In this context, Schleifschlamm would be slurry from the waterstones. Schleifen means to sharpen and Schlamm is mud or paste.

This is about the first time my degree in German has done much for me.

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#5

Ah! waterstone trans. as boiler scale

bill tindall

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#6

quite right!

Rolf Schmid

>Google translation is not perfekt, but a quick and easy way to translate the page, but with special woodworking terms it can obviously not deal.

The blade is flatten with SiC-Grid and then polished with the slurry of my waterstones.

regards

Rolf

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