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Edwin Lurvey
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Any time you take a hand sharpened knife, no matter how good, and put it on a controlled angle system, you will never match the factory edge. Every knife will be re-profiled to some degree, some requiring more material removal than others. My WEPS hasn’t come in yet, but I have used other systems, and this is certainly the case. If you do not want to reprofile until your stones come in, maybe you can do a touch-up by hand on a bench stone if you have one, and can work on mimicking what ever the factory edge is.