Razoredgeknives,
That is a gorgeous edge and on a recurve no less. I have that exact knife but still have not received my WE system yet, but that is exactly the reason I bought the WE and upgraded to the pro 2. So, since I don’t yet have the sharpener, I must speculate. Did you have to do anything different than on non recurves blades to get that beautiful, even finish? Clay has said that he would do a video on a ZT 300 or 350 but I know he is too busy right now. I would love to see a video of a 350 being sharpened on a WE.
Thanks Scott! I appreciate the kind words 😀 Makes you want your WEPS NOW doesn’t it? lol. I hated the anticipation!
Nah, I didn’t really have to do anything different… you can use the stock diamond plate/stones that come w/ the system up through 1k. Where you may run into an issue is the steps between the 1k diamond and your 5um strop (you definitely need a go between from my experience – the scratches left by the diamonds are just too deep to remove w/ a strop in my opinion). I used the curved ceramics (which I don’t have anymore) but you could probably get away w/ taping some wet/dry sandpaper to your strops for that step. I just used one edge of the stones, essentially, in the curved area… even w/ my chosera’s. It worked great.
I would definitely recommend you watch this vid before sharpening one of your high end knives like the 0560 or the 0350… not to derail the thread or anything. I think everyone should watch this. In fact, I think i’ll post a thread about it =)
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