Hard wood edge

[Shelley]

a little tip for those wanting performance over polish is right at the end when you have finished take your edge and make about two cuts into a hard piece of wood (like oak or hickory rather than pine), full length cuts, this will tear off any wire edge you may have and leave the edge super sharp.

Try with a piece of paper before and after, I get smoother cuts after.

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sksharp, Dwight Glass

[Organic]

Interesting. What is your typical grit progression prior to running though the wood block? I am particularly curious if you do any stropping in your progression.

 

[Shelley]

200, 600, 800, 1000, 3 micron, 1.5 micron, 1 micron, .5 micron.

i do not strop, well no we strop, I have a leather which has some green compound on it, I sometimes strop with that but I find the wood method easier.

[Organic]

My suspicion is that the WE strops that I use are accomplishing the same end; removal of the residual burr. I suppose that your wood block method does have an advantage in that there is no risk of rounding the apex, but I wonder if scraping off the burr leaves the edge as clean as can be achieved with stropping. Thanks for sharing!

[Marc H]

A felt block is used to accomplish the same task.

Marc
(MarcH's Rack-Its)

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