Flat stone hollow stone clarity

Nothing I wrote is confusing, but the interpretation of others is or at least can be. If you need a a convex bevel on a plane or chisel iron you can use either flat or hollow stones and both give pristine results (but very obviously you cannot use a hollowed stone for flat face aspects of sharpening,…

Sharpening on hollow stones

Sharpening on hollow stones

Someone emailed me as a result of my earlier post and said that if a stone hollowed through constant sharpening of the bevel of a tool’s cutting edge, how do you then hone the reverse flat side of the tool blade without creating a round face on what must be dead flat. That’s a good…