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Ron Hock
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We're busy and happy here at Hock Tools and can only imagine that means you are, too. I've been getting in some serious puttering time in Hock Tools' new shop. For some, solving dust collection problems in a metal shop might seem a drag, but not for me. Dust collection at the new shop had been on my mind much of June and is now a problem mostly solved, as is noise abatement. It's been very rewarding to fuss the big and little problems into shape!
Please read In-the-Spotlight. Linda tells me she finally gets the math. I read her Knife Kit math and it makes sense to me, Linda sense that is. So, if you don't mind... Also, please take a look at the microscopy piece in Advancing Handtools. It's mostly an excerpt from The Perfect Edge, but I have to say these photographs still blow me away! It's just amazing what the naked eye does not see. And, it's instructive to know that sharp is as sharp does, which keeps a person working wood, not the blade! So it's onward to the crest of summer and beyond. Of course, please feel free to let me know if there's anything you need from Hock Tools.
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Sincerely,
Ron Hock
Hock Tools
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(888) 282-5233
(707) 964-2782
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 A D V A N C I N G
H A N D T O O L S:
Up Close & Sharp -
What Microscopy Tells You about Getting Your Sharp On.
Top-right: a BIC razor blade. Bottom-left: a human hair on top of that BIC razor blade.
(Mycroscopy is simply the use of a microscope to help the eye see what it can't without a microscope. Scanning electron microscopes show you the
schmutz that sometimes your magnifying glass cannot detect. As a person using tools to work wood, mycroscopy lets you know that sometimes what you don't see, won't hurt you.)
Even after writing a book about sharpening -- researching and answering all those questions -- Ron is still interested in the topic. He doesn't seem to mind answering the same questions about sharpening, either,even several times a day. And that's a good thing because they keep coming!
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Steve Anderson makes an adjustment to the Hitachi S-3000 scanning electron microscope at Sonoma State University.
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"I know people who calla the result of frequent edge testing Galoot Pattern Baldness."
-- Ron Hock
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