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Main Boards => The Bowyer's Bench => Topic started by: Arrowcraft on October 03, 2015, 01:18:00 PM
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does any one have a way to get snuffer heads razor shaving sharp ? Bought 4 different dmt diamond stones, leather strop with aluminum oxide compound. i got them sharp but not shaving sharp any ideas?
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Sniffer are hollow ground and the blades are not straight when they come out of the package.
I start fy flattening each side on a belt sander carefully wil maybe 220grit or 320 grit. Then once they're flat I go to sharpening stones, progressively finer.
If you don't flatten them and you try to sharpen them on a flat stone, only the tip and the back end of the blades contact the stone. The middle of each blade is above the stone surface and isn't getting sharpened.
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Once you get em flat front to back like Ben says, black the edges with a sharpie, and use a 6" fine wheel grinder( head on an arrow please) to hollow grind 2 blades at a time til the marker is gone. Then REALLY lite strokes on 2 blades at a time with a fine file.
Shave in about 1.5 minutes.
That is the Rothaar way as told to me by Ryan R.
Good luck!