Stephen M wrote:
Read the FWW aricle and concur with your observation.

IMHO most rags understand that their revenue stream is based on
adverisers, not subscribers. Not "biting the hand" is, regretfully,
symptomatic.

While that is true and I can understand that balancing act, other
advertising magazines to manage to do much better veviews.

The author could have provided a table of list prices capacities and
capabilities/jigs for each machine. The author did not even manage to do
this in the form of prose because he reviewed each tool differently.

BTW, does anyone in their right mind try to lap tools on the side of a
wheel? I've never tried it but it seems to me it would have all the
effectiveness of flattening a table table top with a belt sander.


-Steve


a belt sander is an appropriate tool for flattening a tabletop if the
table top is starting from a flatness of less than what the belt sander
can produce. after that you'll prolly want to progress on to something
with a bit more finesse.

I have a chisel that I have been working on for a couple of years now.
it's about 2-1/2" or 3" wide and weighs 3 or 4 pounds- and spent a
bunch of time in the bottom of a bucket of dirty water. I have a plan
for it which includes lapping the sole flat. the pits in the sole are
something to behold... and I've been working it on the side of a
grinding wheel for a while now.

point being, a tool can be applied in more than one way. you could lap
tools on the pavement by leaning out the door with them and bearing
down on the freeway as you go down the road if that was the grade of
work required.....