Thank you Ken and Wootz for your thoughtful answers.
Have partially looked over Dave Schweitzers videos but so far seen no mention of the clogging issue and it's solution but will keep looking. Guess I'd like to ask if either of you have tried declogging by his method and if it does in fact work and is fairly easy?
And there is this possible discrepancy in the way I read your experience if you guys would care to comment.
Ken says the clogging only happens with "mild steel", a term usually applied to low carbon steel up to max carbon of .3% that can not be heat treated. He has no problem with high carbon heat treated steel chisels that are probably in the 1% or more carbon camp but do not, I'm guessing) have any of the special additions like tungsten, molybdenum.
While you, Wootz, seem to experience that it is necessary to have these "metalurgical alloys" to avoid clogging and that any normal high carbon, even the very high 2% ones, will present problems without them. And as you say, even the CBN leaflet warns against high carbon.
So is interesting as to why Ken has no problem, or I'm misinterpreting this some how
Glad to see that you both agree Stainless steel blades are fine on CBN.
Other good and interesting points made in both posts
Have partially looked over Dave Schweitzers videos but so far seen no mention of the clogging issue and it's solution but will keep looking. Guess I'd like to ask if either of you have tried declogging by his method and if it does in fact work and is fairly easy?
And there is this possible discrepancy in the way I read your experience if you guys would care to comment.
Ken says the clogging only happens with "mild steel", a term usually applied to low carbon steel up to max carbon of .3% that can not be heat treated. He has no problem with high carbon heat treated steel chisels that are probably in the 1% or more carbon camp but do not, I'm guessing) have any of the special additions like tungsten, molybdenum.
While you, Wootz, seem to experience that it is necessary to have these "metalurgical alloys" to avoid clogging and that any normal high carbon, even the very high 2% ones, will present problems without them. And as you say, even the CBN leaflet warns against high carbon.
So is interesting as to why Ken has no problem, or I'm misinterpreting this some how
Glad to see that you both agree Stainless steel blades are fine on CBN.
Other good and interesting points made in both posts