Post by Pete on Mar 1, 2020 0:57:48 GMT
Popped down to Yandles last night for the end of month late night opening and demo, it is a 60 mile round trip but I do enjoy browsing the tools and timber, and the demo is a bonus last nights was Masterclass in Finishing, with Fiddes products presented by Jamie Reed, enjoyable but only part of the reason to go, holding tools, stroking bits of wood is the real reason for attending any tool shop.
Anyway as I was restocking on minimal amount of wax polish and some extra fine Yorkshire grit and resisting the very lovely chunks of English Walnut they have in stock.
In fact I was feeling so good about my restraint, I then went and blew it completely by asking to see the ProEdge diamond belt, I only wanted to see it, run my finger over the grit and consider it for a future purchase… then it happened, I found myself reaching for my card and saying, “I want this”.
SO, don’t tell my wife, but I just bought my ProEdge a diamond ring!!
Naturally I thought I could lay off some of my guilt by sharing my first use and impressions with you lot 😊
First picture is fresh out of the packet next to my existing 120 grit belt just off the ProEdge.
Note the difference in thickness, this caused me a bit of a problem as I could not get the belt onto the ProEdge without manually forcing the spring loaded top pulley down beyond where the cam holds it, this in turn caused the tracking to run out. However the solution was simple, I let the ProEdge run for 5 minutes and the belt bedded in just fine. On the right of the picture is the belts face on, fairly new 120 grit on the left, diamond on the right.
So the next question is obviously how does it sharpen? The bowl gouge in the picture below was sharpened on the 120 grit ceramic belt, and then used, so the burrs are gone as my working tool it was sharp, but I ran it on the new diamond belt just 4 passes in complete sweeps as I already liked the shape.
Going to take a few more passes to be sure, but I think the scratches are finer, more you can see from the edge that metal has been removed even in 4 passes, obviously not visible without zoom and will be gone about half inch into the first cut or I could of course hone it.
The thing is this belt is supposed to be very long lasting, obviously I can’t comment on that in this post! But I have set myself a reminder for 6 months when I will do another close up after 4 passes to see if the abrasive is cutting as well.
Anyway as I was restocking on minimal amount of wax polish and some extra fine Yorkshire grit and resisting the very lovely chunks of English Walnut they have in stock.
In fact I was feeling so good about my restraint, I then went and blew it completely by asking to see the ProEdge diamond belt, I only wanted to see it, run my finger over the grit and consider it for a future purchase… then it happened, I found myself reaching for my card and saying, “I want this”.
SO, don’t tell my wife, but I just bought my ProEdge a diamond ring!!
Naturally I thought I could lay off some of my guilt by sharing my first use and impressions with you lot 😊
First picture is fresh out of the packet next to my existing 120 grit belt just off the ProEdge.
Note the difference in thickness, this caused me a bit of a problem as I could not get the belt onto the ProEdge without manually forcing the spring loaded top pulley down beyond where the cam holds it, this in turn caused the tracking to run out. However the solution was simple, I let the ProEdge run for 5 minutes and the belt bedded in just fine. On the right of the picture is the belts face on, fairly new 120 grit on the left, diamond on the right.
So the next question is obviously how does it sharpen? The bowl gouge in the picture below was sharpened on the 120 grit ceramic belt, and then used, so the burrs are gone as my working tool it was sharp, but I ran it on the new diamond belt just 4 passes in complete sweeps as I already liked the shape.
Going to take a few more passes to be sure, but I think the scratches are finer, more you can see from the edge that metal has been removed even in 4 passes, obviously not visible without zoom and will be gone about half inch into the first cut or I could of course hone it.
The thing is this belt is supposed to be very long lasting, obviously I can’t comment on that in this post! But I have set myself a reminder for 6 months when I will do another close up after 4 passes to see if the abrasive is cutting as well.
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