Hi Lester – welcome to the forum.
That Cold Steel was a challenge knife in order to sell a system a little over a year ago now. I had sharpened another knife for this fellow the first day of the show and he brought this back on Sunday saying – if you can sharpen this I’ll buy a Wicked Edge. He didn’t know it, but it wasn’t really much of a challenge – the Wicked Edge makes this pretty easy to do :woohoo:. I remember it pretty well as this was the first kukri I had someone bring me at a show. The guy who’s knife this is came back to several other shows for more tips and practice and now works with us at some of our shows.
The clamping position in the video is the second position I worked the knife at – I sharpened it in two stages. I did set the angle using the sharpie to match what was there – as I recall this particular was at about 60 degrees inclusive (set somewhere about the 30 degree mark on the left, and about at the end of the rod on the right) Since the bevels looked great, and even on both sides, I just matched what Cold Steel put on it in the factory and didn’t set the angle with an angle cube. I sharpened using the Pro Pack I set up of stones.
Here are pics of the two clamping positions I used…
The sharpie is still on the edge through the belly and toward the tip so you can see how far I sharpened in this position.
From this position I matched the angle on the section I had done already and overlapped my work, then stropped the full length of the edge – no change in angle for the stropping.
I used the lower set of holes for the depth key. To find both positions, I moved the blade around using the sharpie marker to guide me to the sweet spots – I think I ended up a bit higher and not resting the spine on the key for the first position
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