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Looks cool! Thanks, Marc.

Welcome to the Wicked Edge family, RCH! I’m glad to hear that you are enjoying your WE66 Obsidian. I remember when I got my first Wicked Edge sharpening system, I was looking for knives, scissors, and everything that I could find to sharpen up. I recommend getting a set of 50/80 stones for when you have to do some reprofiling, especially for…[Read more]

Those stones are fine. I prefer to take kitchen knives to at least 1000 grit. You will definitely want more stones if you need to do any reprofiling.

Except for the scrubbing strokes, I only use edge-following strokes, and my edges get nice and sharp. It takes a little longer, but I don’t care. When I’m sharpening a knife or something I just get in a zone like Kwai Chang Caine. lol Plus, I don’t have to worry about cutting my fingers as much.

I break my coarser stones in profiling/sharpening my chisels. Then I go to knives.

Howdy, Jim! Welcome to the Wicked Edge forum.

I bought a set of 50/80 stones for reprofiling. I love them but you have to be careful with them – they can shred some steel. But they save your arms and your 100 grit stones, especially when reprofiling chisels. They are worth every penny.

I bought a Tormek SVM-00 small knife holder to sharpen small blades. It’s a lot quicker and easier.

Is it a wet-belt system? If not, it will be very easy to ruin the heat treat of your blade bevels.

Actually, I laughed. Goodbye.

You’re just a troublemaker. I reported you.

I don’t care for your politics and your accusations. This isn’t a political website.

Well, you chose the wrong company to speak out against. I can’t believe that WE have managed to keep their prices down when just about everything else has gone up. You should be congratulating them.

Sometimes I misspell words on purpose to see if someone will jump on it like a dog on a bone. But in that case I saw it but didn’t think that it was worth the time to correct it.
I thought that the Statue of Liberty was ambidextrous.

It all depends upon your priorities. I hope that you don’t plan on charging me for the spelling lesson… LOL!

I see nothing wrong with the Wicked Edge prices. I own a fountain pen that costed more than the WE60 base model. WE sharpener systems are original and made in the USA. They are not building from the research & development of other companies – they do their own research & development. And as Marc pointed out, they have come down on a lot of their…[Read more]

Looks good, Marc!

Yeah, the jaws on mine are ground down some too. The Tormek is probably the quickest and easiest way to handle tiny blades.

I don’t have a WE120, but I would bet that you would’ve had better results using a Low Angle Adapter rather than the riser block. The quickest and easiest way for me to sharpen tiny blades is to use a Tormek SVM-00 small knife jig. It’s quick and easy.

Do you mean a riser block that goes underneath the vise, or a Low Angle Adapter? I use my WE60 for really tiny blades. Going by the photos it looks like we might have the same problems with the WE40. I really don’t know why WE believes that the base of the vise needs to be so broad. If they would bring the base in 1 1/2 inches or so it would fix…[Read more]