Reduced Stropping angles
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I’ve been sorting out my photo files recently and came across some old photos that illustrate one or our axioms – that of reducing your angle by one or two degrees when switching to a soft platen material. Compliant platen material can roll over an edge and soften the crispness of what would have been a very sharp knife.
These micro photos were taken in April of 2014 – a little more than four years ago.
The knife shown in the first two pictures is a standard Buck 110. I had sharpened it to 1000-grit (photo #1), then switched to 3 micron diamond film. The annotation should explain the situation.
The second pair of photos are of a Buck Prince, which also had been sharpened to 1000-grit before switching to 3.5 micron paste on leather strops. No angle change was made and the effect on the edge is quite apparent.
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