I’m certain this has been covered before but I was unable to find it…but I do recall reading something about it somewhere…anyway I have a BM 551 440C SS that I’ve had for years. I’ve only sharpened it on a Spyderco…other than a buddy put it on his wheel once or twice.
I’m now about 8 knives into my WES and felt confident to sharpen this BM which is used daily. I did the sharpie trick and put it into the WES. I made certain everything is true and what I found was at 20 degrees the right side lined up perfectly and slicked right up starting at 1K grit Diamond.
The left side is a different story – the back isn’t as bad but the tip only sharpened at the very point and there is a lot of sharpie remaining further down where the grind is suppose to be.
I’m surmising this is either BM’s original grind job where they didn’t do it perfectly centered, and/or the guy on the wheel and/or me on the Spyderco…or all of the above.
Regardless…this is what I’m thinking about doing and I’m asking for validation or correction. I’m going to go back to a 600 or maybe 400 diamond and work the left side some more until it is on par with the right side then start incrementally working my way back up assuming everything trues up. Is this correct?
Ryan
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