Come on, the grinding is where things really start to come together and you get closer to seeing your finished work. The real bore are the hours spent on final sharpening with a stone. /KRM On Mon, 20 Oct 2003 11:54:40 -0500 (CDT) nimitz at ns1.nimitzbrood.com wrote: > The > final time-consumer is grinding. Blech - eating > sparks. Not fun but necessary.