Whittling a hair under a microscope!

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Whittling a hair under a microscope!

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Hi all!
Recently, I visited my good friend Dr. Marvin Groeb who oversees the analysis instruments amongst other things at Kern Microtechnic.

There, I was able to use their Leica microscope to whittle a human hair under magnification, the knife is one of my custom blades in M398, at 65 HRC, 3 cryo cycles. 17.5 dps.

Maybe this is interesting to the folks here:

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That's some pretty cool microscopy.
It beats the heck out of my $30 USB contraption.
Thanks for showing us your work.
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Very cool. How about a picture of the knife itself, for our edification? :nerd
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dsvirsky wrote:
Mon Nov 17, 2025 11:43 am
Very cool. How about a picture of the knife itself, for our edification? :nerd
Sadly, I got no picture of the particular blade, since it was just a scrap. But here is a link to the typical type of knife I make:
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