Author: Gregory Smith ★2017
Date: 2006-05-23 15:17
Koo Young Chung -
These are all questions that one would have to ask Guy himself. And even then I'm not sure that the kind of information for which you ask isn't proprietary.
I say this because there are all styles of reamers made from different materials, with or without a myriad of protective coatings. Some have to be sent out to the original maker to sharpen with the original machines, some styles can be sharpened by the artisan themselves in shop. (And no. Sharpening them properly does not change the dimensions and most importantly, the "spirit" of that individual reamer - it's the same reamer.)
Without getting too much into reamers 101, suffice it to say that at some time in the distant, distant, future, a reamer may have been sharpened so many times that there is nothing left of the blank from which to sharpen or take away material, but this would be highly unusual in cases that produce smaller to mid-volume amounts of products.
I am not aware of such cases but there may be some in the cases of highly industrialized, huge volume production lines in the auto industry, etc.
Gregory Smith
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