im testing the mousepad without sandpaper and it works well im going to go buy some sandpaper.


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The mousepad will work fine just laid on top of a flat table or something similar. Remeber, with knives like light weight Moras and smaller pocket knives you only need a little bit of pressure, and on the bigger knives the weight of the blade is all that's required.

You will be able to see the convex starting to happen with the naked eye, but it's very useful to have some kind of magnification especially when you first get started so that you can really see and understand what's happening. Even an el cheapo magnifying glass from Wal-Mart will work.

Also, when you buy your sandpaper try to get wet/dry sandpaper. That's the grayish black looking stuff that comes in all kinds of grits up to 1500 and even finer.

Also, here are some pics showing a way to use a simple 3/4"-1" thick block of wood that's 4" to 8" long to build a portable convex sharpening set up, and one of them shows a block that also has a strip of leather on one side as a strop loaded with green compound. I've made lots of these. You just wrap the mousepad/sandpaper around the block and insert snugly into the slit and use a small Carpenter's wood bisuit wedged in there to hold it all in place.

Gotcha- just making sure I get it right. Yes- I think the sanders are around 100 dollars on sale. BTW- I actually won $$$ at the casino last night !! Up to this point I thought it was just a donation !! (lol)

Can't remember which one it was that Jeff had. Maybe Tolly knows which is best. You NEED your own. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

Very young - was he sick for awhile ?