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super, super,super flat chissels
Posted By eliot feldman
Date Monday, 28 February 2022, at 7:29 p.m.

eliot feldman
When I was in my teens (70 years ago), I ground and polished a 6 inch telescope mirror to make a Newtonian telescope. The final polishing step used celenium oxide and a pitch lap. The results were accurate to within fractions of the wavelength of light. I don't see why we can't do the same thing to flatten the back of a tool. Has anyone thought of something like this? Obviously, you would only do it for something very special because it would take hours to do. I thought of it after seeing an ad for a Blue Spruce chisel, where they boast of such flatness.

 
  

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