Still down with sciatica, so an excuse to do some reading. Professor Chaddock states in his book on the Quorn, "Sharpening hand reamers on the Quorn will result in an undersize cut of about 2 thou" Or words to that effect. OK, this implies that the parallel section of the hand reamer is sharpened as well as the taper section.
Picking up Harold Hall's book on sharpening tools, I found the following statement. "Hand reamers cut on the tapered section". Now if this is correct, one only needs to sharpen the taper section, The parallel section is left alone and the reamer should cut to dead size after sharpening.
Who am I to judge the apparent difference of opinion between these two eminent gentleman? Who is correct or am I missing something as usual?
Andrew.