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 | | From: | Repeating Rifle | | Subject: | Is crocus cloth useful for honing? | | Date: | Thu, 20 Jan 2005 05:32:56 GMT |
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 | There has been talk here of stropping with rouge as final honing operation.
A sheedt of crocus cloth looks similar to a sheet of sandpaper. It
consists, however, of a cloth impregnated with rouge.
Can crocus cloth be used effectively for final honing? How would that be
done? My initial experiments did not give great results but were not total
failures either.
Bill
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| | From: | alvinj at XX.com | | Subject: | Re: Is crocus cloth useful for honing? | | Date: | Thu, 20 Jan 2005 21:00:51 +0000 (UTC) |
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| Repeating Rifle wrote:
> There has been talk here of stropping with rouge as final honing
> operation. A sheedt of crocus cloth looks similar to a sheet of
> sandpaper. It consists, however, of a cloth impregnated with
> rouge.
> Can crocus cloth be used effectively for final honing? How would
> that be done? My initial experiments did not give great results
> but were not total failures either.
> Bill
Did the crocus cloth collect metal and start making a black,
(powdered-metal) mirror like a razor hone does?
If so, you got it! :)
A cool trick would be to glue the cloth down to something flat in
such a way that left -no- bumps.
(multiple layers of really thinned out contact cement?)
I have three hard blocks of "rouge" one's black, one's red with
"Champion" molded into it and the best one is the bright-white Case
MoonStone. Ok, so it's "mirror-finish-black" mostly. ;) No kidding
you can get a reflection. (i try real hard not to see myself in it)
What I mean by "hard blocks of rouge" is a guy could prob'ly carve
into it with a knife sort of like soap-stone used by welders for
marking. As long as you make a point of only polishing a very acute
edge all the rather soft block does is just quickly turn black.
If you try something just a little too obtuse the edge will dig-in
and scrape off your "black mirror finish" instead of polishing the
steel, even when "trailing the edge" (back first).
Keep going with this, Bill... it sounds cool. :)
Alvin in AZ (my "first birthday" present was a Win-'94;)
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