Rob Babcock
Head Chef
I'll get that glass rod eventually, Buzz. My latest toy is a HF 30X1 grinder with some 1200 grit belts by 3M I got from Lee Valley. I also got some fine grit PSA to make polishing tapes with. I won't have time to set up & try out the belt grinder at least til after I finish a couple of papers that I've postponed for too long, but I did use some of the PSA. Since I didn't know for sure how they'd work I wanted to try 'em on a beater knife first til I knew they'd "do no harm." On the plus side, I did find it useful to use a clean, dry mounted 800 as a blank (was that your advice or someone else? Can't recall, but thanks if it was...). On the downside, the knife I used was soft enough that it didn't really improve the cutting power much, although it did improve the appearance quite a bit.