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That’s true. It wasn’t that big of a deal to me, so I never said anything. I just take a photo of it. But I was puzzled when I saw it the first time.

Yeah, I just didn’t want to say anything because I figured that I would get slapped around. 😊

But it’s an easy fix. I’m sure that they will get around to it when they get a chance.

The AAG is poorly designed. There is a lot of lower space on it that most people will never use unless they are sharpening a boomerang. It needs to go much higher. I have no idea what they were thinking of when they designed it. Hopefully they will fix that.

It will be easier to keep the blade from trying to work out of the clamp if you remove the blade from the handle.

Do you have Windows? You can use MS Picture Manager to compress photos. Then get a free account with http://www.imgur.com. After you compress the photos you can upload them to Imgur, then click on the photo, copy the, “Direct Link”, then paste it in the URL box in the window that pops up when you click, “Select File”. I compress and rename photos with…[Read more]

Hello and welcome to the WE forum! It would help if you mentioned what type of OTF you have or included a photo of it. I have been moving away from OTF’s, but I do have a Boker Kalashnikov Auto with a dagger blade.

• First, I would take the OTF apart so I could clamp the blade without the weight of the handle working against me (Open the handle…

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Welcome to the forum, Tom!

I’m not an expert either but I rarely use a strop. For most knives I like to have a 800 or 1000 grit toothy edge. Then I give the blade a couple of alternating edge leading strokes to make sure there is no burr left. Done.

LOL!! That would definitely be cost less!

I guess it depends on the sword. But it would probably be nice to be able to slide the clamps around on the rails for quick adjustments. I guess you could just drill new holes and move one or more clamps here or there if you wanted to bolt the clamps down onto a table or bench.

If I wanted to sharpen large swords, I would set up a 3 clamp rail system similar to Marcs’ setup with the clamps about 14 – 16 inches apart.

Hi John. Check out this thread.

They have a bunch of great articles! I have read a few of them.

On BF also. Someone PM’d me on BF asking me to tell them the dimensions of the WE130 angle bar. I ignored him. LOL!

Nice looking knife.

They are inexpensive enough to have for in case a situation does arrive where you may need one.

That looks nice. I don’t see how they can make them at that price!

Thanks, Brewbear. That Silver Fox looks nice. I’ll get a 112 auto eventually, maybe next month. I think everyone should have at least one decent fixed blade knife though.

I thought that using the belleville washers was a brilliant idea while I was examining my WE. Much more dependable than using a spring.

I leave my handle on while sharpening. I just turn the lever at a 45° angle to the clamp. When I want to release the clamp, I just put my fingers under the lever with my thumb on the base, then lift the lever…[Read more]