aem wrote:
> Sheldon wrote:
> > [snip] ...one could probably do light touch ups at home with one of
> > those fercocktah diamond hones that idiots use to ruin perfectly good
> > steel cutlery... diamond hones were developed for dressing fully
> > hardened tool steels and carbides, not the relatively soft steel used
> > for cutlery, soft steel will load up with diamond particles and then in
> > use will continue to accellerate dulling itself forever, the loaded
> > diamond particles can never be removed... such a knife will literally
> > destroy itself and a knife steel... never switch a diamond honed blade
> > back to a knife steel. [snip]
>
> Where does this idea about diamond particles loading up the knife come
> from? Source? -aem

It don't [doesn't] get more academic... something anyone with an ounce
of common sense would know... anyone ever ****ed on a sandy beach would
know...aintcha ever stuck yer sandy peepee in a dry ****ed dago
whore... sheesh!

Tons of info... search <abrasives and charging>

Any half-assed greezy *WOP* monkey auto mechanic with two functioning
brain cells would know.

Metalworking 101

http://www.us-products.com/sitehtml/lapping.html

http://www.smg-diamond.com/lapping.html

Sheldon