07-19-2018, 09:37 AM
(07-18-2018, 10:06 AM)EOU Wrote: Well Bud sorry to hear about your accident. We assume it was an accident. You weren't pushed...were you?
Unlikely a rose gardener would risk her own rose bushes, even for sport. It's easy to know for sure... Did she capture it on video?
Scratch direction is very significant IMHO. If you're finishing with a coarse grit, at an angle, it's easy to feel the difference between slicing forward or backward. You can also tell a difference by how much material gets caught and sticks to the edge. It's most noticeable to me when I'm cutting rags, probably because I'm constantly doing that.
Many sharpeners change the angle of the scratch pattern when they go to the next stone in the progression. That way it's easy to tell when you have removed all the scratches of the previous stone.
Every little thing is magnified with straight razors, so scratch direction is absolutely critical for most users.