Heel to tip edge consistency problems
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This link should help…
Finding the Sweet Spot – Positioning Your Knife from Front to Back
… it looks like you need to bring the tip closer to the clamp.
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This link should help…
Finding the Sweet Spot – Positioning Your Knife from Front to Back
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Great link to the instructional diagram!!! Somehow have never seen that before…sure to be a useful in the future.
Agreed that clamping closer to the tip should help. That knife looks to be on the chunky side with large bevels. Not an easy task…I had several kbar knives flare out like that at the tip on me when first getting started. Also some knives just seem have a lot of meat up there at the tip making for a real challenge.
All in all Id say your technique looks good so don’t get too discouraged, positioning the knife to where the arc of the rod is closer to following the tips sweep should get you there. Good luck!
Great link to the instructional diagram!!! Somehow have never seen that before…sure to be a useful in the future.
The links to the instructions and FAQ need to be put back at the top of the forum page, so they can be found. Now they’re only on the main page under “Resources”
https://www.wickededgeusa.com/category/instructions/
https://www.wickededgeusa.com/category/faqs/
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This info is avilable already on the WE home page under “resources”. I should have looked better. But a link from the forum page (also to the Wiki) might be useful.
Molecule Polishing: my blog about sharpening with the Wicked Edge
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A secondary thing you can do it tilt the blade in the vise so the tip is much lower than the heel of the edge. If you truly want it fixed though, and get it to cut much better you need a regrind 😉
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I think it’s important for each of us to understand that the angle of the bevel is determined by the intersection of the stone with the plane of the edge you are sharpening. Where the tangent line of the edge changes, the bevel angle changes too. Imagine a Tanto blade mounted so that the main edge of the blade is horizontal, but the tip is mounted very near the front edge of the vise. When the stone is rotated to work the bevel of the tip, the angle changes drastically – approaching 90 degrees. To avoid this, you normally remount the blade so as to put the forward edge parallel with the horizontal plane. Likewise, you must orient any sweeping blade profile so as to reduce such angular misalignments. Where the blade’s profile is extreme, you will need to sharpen it in steps, blending the profile as you go, and yes, moving the blade forward, with the tip farther away from the vise will mitigate the errors.
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