Congratulations, Josh.
Tom, 65 degrees C in the dishwasher. And you can remove your stones B)
Very helpful tip! Sounds like you have done the same thing 😉
Now that you have all the empty paddles what can you do with them? Is there a source for replacement diamond plates or replacement ceramic or wet stones that are cut to paddle size?
Well there are a ton of things you COULD do w/ them, hehe. not sure what I will do w/ these yet.
You could get any number of waterstones you may be interested in, say a line of the shapton pro series, but get them in the large block. Then cut them up on a tile saw, mount them to aluminum bases, and then to the WEPS paddles and sell the rest. This is just one application though! You could also play around w/ different strop bases: balsa, leather, nano cloth, etc.
Congratulations.
What percent do you think were re-profile vs. touch ups to knives already sharpened once on WE?
Most of the heavy reprofile work I do on a belt sander, then I simply microbevel w/ my WEPS at 19-20 dps w/ the 800/1k’s. But whenever I mirror an edge or match the existing angle I use the full progression. If I had to guess I would say that the 600-1k’s all have about the same wear on them, and then the lower grits (esp. the 100’s) have a ton of wear from hours reprofiling. Shoot, I reprofiled an Al Mar fixed blade to 10 dps by hand and that took me about 2.5 hrs per side – just reprofiling w/ the 100’s! So as you can imagine that takes life off of them. I don’t normally touch up ones already sharpened on the WEPS except for my own. Most of my customers have some sort of maintenance devise like the sharpmaker or stropping.
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