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They've totally ruined me!
 While my fine tool sharpening skills have increased tremendously, I'm totally ruined for mundane tasks like sharpening the mower blade.
The manual says "Take a file and sharpen the blade". Ha! Think I can execute that simple task now, after reading all these sharpening threads - no way. My mower blades are hollow ground on a CBN wheel, the burr is removed with a fine stone, then stropped on leather with green compound. Once I even put a secondary bevel on one, with a slight back bevel. Sheesh! The blades are polished with autosol til they are bright.
I'm ruined forever.......but that first pass does look tremendous.
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(07-15-2018, 08:26 PM)BaileyNo5 Wrote: They've totally ruined me!
While my fine tool sharpening skills have increased tremendously, I'm totally ruined for mundane tasks like sharpening the mower blade.
The manual says "Take a file and sharpen the blade". Ha! Think I can execute that simple task now, after reading all these sharpening threads - no way. My mower blades are hollow ground on a CBN wheel, the burr is removed with a fine stone, then stropped on leather with green compound. Once I even put a secondary bevel on one, with a slight back bevel. Sheesh! The blades are polished with autosol til they are bright.
I'm ruined forever.......but that first pass does look tremendous.
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I can relate !!!
Also, for some reason I started hunting down pictures of polished hammer heads. *Nothing* practical there. But I have seen some lately from Jim Hendricks, the Crucible tool guys, and the Brent Bailey forge in California.
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07-16-2018, 09:40 AM
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The 'natural' look is back in style. Go ahead, hit a few boulders, send gravel into the neighbor's front window. Leave the angle grinder and 30 grit for the next mower.
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Actually, my John Deere manual recommends not to sharpen to a fine edge, just a pointed edge. I was surprised when I read that.
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07-16-2018, 10:27 AM
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(07-16-2018, 10:16 AM)Admiral Wrote: Actually, my John Deere manual recommends not to sharpen to a fine edge, just a pointed edge. I was surprised when I read that.
My Lie-Nielsen manual says the same thing.
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Just wondering. I thought a CBN wheel was only to be used with M2 and harder metals and that soft metals were bad for it?
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