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Interesting thought, be interested to see if you can make it work Clay. I find with most of these knives I center them and then only grab as much metal as is necessary in order to keep them from “squirting” :dry: out of the vise when you clamp – sometimes this means having the handle pushed all the way against the vise so that you can grab at the choil as you can’t hold them otherwise.
BTW keep ahold of the knife while tightening as I have had some go flying pretty far and fast when snugging the bottom vise screw
Since the steels in these small pen knives, jacks, whittlers, toothpicks, etc are relatively soft as a rule, to make the edge last the angle is pretty wide and they sharpen up pretty quickly. I’ve never found repositioning to be an issue – just get it (up and down) where the clamp will hold hit it with the sharpie and adjust the angle to match. You can raise a burr pretty quickly even with fine stones, that combined with the angle control means even on the first sharpening you seldom remove much metal when working them on the WE.
I’m sure you’ll be happy with your set up. Get a chisel point sharpie, take your time, develop your technique by practicing on some knives you don’t care about and give your diamonds a chance to break in. Ask if anything comes up we all like sharing our experiences and what we have figured out. Lots of great advice on here and lots of folks have slightly different methods to make things work – find what works for you
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