It's times like these when you really mourn the lack of Feel-o-vision technology. (And Smell-o-vision in the case of Spanish cedar.) It's something that you have to experience first hand.
You're gonna have to put 'em down. Or re-purpose them.Sometimes it doesn't take much, but once it starts, that's game over for those strips.
GSR?Wood be fickle.
I ganged my bloodwood binding strips together after thicknessing so I can bend them all at once.
Doing the sharpest waist bend, 2 of them were cooperating. 2, not so much. Those two must have had a particular weak spot of runout right there. Sometimes it doesn't take much, but once it starts, that's game over for those strips.
Nothing for it but to cut a couple more strips. Preferably after the storm passes (have to go out to the workshop.)
"Gsr?"?GSR?
Good reminder about the optical illusion.tops and bottoms aren't really glued to the sides at all in the end, only to the kerfing.
Did the cat take that picture?
Are you using Japanese whetstones?Getting the wee stuff honed and cutting crisp is a tricky job.
Yes, water stones. Although on the 1000/4000 one it's made by Norton, so I'm not sure that really qualifies as "Japanese". But the 8000 one certainly is.Are you using Japanese whetstones?