In the same way the tip of a freshly sharpened pencil is prone to snapping, a tool’s cutting edge when highly sharpened is more prone to chipping damage.
The solution is to apply a specific edge hone. This helps prevent the cutting edge from being damaged by chipping or curling, and when applied with an appropriate profile the honing process enhances the tool for the application it was designed for. It also allows the tool to run at full production speed from new.
Wet blasting can reliably and repeatedly apply an edge hone to a specific micrometre tolerance and profile, otherwise known as a K-Factor, to suit the application the tool is designed for. Profiles can range from a waterfall hone with a K-Factor greater than one to a reverse waterfall or trumpet hone with a K-Factor of less than one.
