Re: First Attempts
Although your knife blades might be too hard even for carbide, you may want to try what Ray Viramontez suggested to me, and that is to stone a very small flat on the sharpened edges of the carbide tool. Also, do the fronts, almost microsized hones. To remove the burr from HSS steel gravers, stab them into a piece of pine, like Bruce Beebe does. As a Journeyman Machinist, tool geometry is everything, nearly, and probably the hardest gun cylinder you'd want to tackle, with carbide, is from a Ruger Single Six.
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