bevel

I managed to borrow a pretty expensive Dino-Lite digital microscope recently and thought I'd see how it did with bevel and apex photography. The subject of this little photo shoot is a Yoshikane white 2 bunka, which was touched-up on a Naniwa Pro 3k stone at around 12 degrees per side and then...

I want to share a technique for thinning behind the edge (knocking down the shoulders or making the edge bevel more acute) that I discovered when making a knife from M35, which is so difficult to work that no reasonable knife maker would use it. I'd say this technique needs some alpha/beta...