Mark, you are correct, several decades ago, as a student, I was working in RTG lab of a large metallurgical institute. I was measuring lattice constants of different steels. But later I have dealt only with Earth Sciences. Hence my posts about iron and nickel in the Earth core.
Sorry for my uneasily understandable statement, English is my secondary language.
Steel is composed of densely packed atoms arranged in a regular manner. For some atomic planes it is energetically easier to slip with respect to the neighbouring plane than for some planes with different orientations. The picture may help to understand what I mean.
My idea is that during dry honing some suitably oriented surface atomic planes may slip (be shifted) towards the edge where they disintegrate. Atomic planes in grains with non-suitable orientation do not slip, or slip only in a limited extent.
When I am sure that the burr is removed, I strongly reduce the pressure on the honed edge and flip the blade after each pass. I do it because I will not force too many atomic planes to slip towards the edge in this final stage of honing.
But again, it is only my working hypothesis!
Jan
Sorry for my uneasily understandable statement, English is my secondary language.
Steel is composed of densely packed atoms arranged in a regular manner. For some atomic planes it is energetically easier to slip with respect to the neighbouring plane than for some planes with different orientations. The picture may help to understand what I mean.
My idea is that during dry honing some suitably oriented surface atomic planes may slip (be shifted) towards the edge where they disintegrate. Atomic planes in grains with non-suitable orientation do not slip, or slip only in a limited extent.
When I am sure that the burr is removed, I strongly reduce the pressure on the honed edge and flip the blade after each pass. I do it because I will not force too many atomic planes to slip towards the edge in this final stage of honing.
But again, it is only my working hypothesis!
Jan