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It works great for me on my scissors. I forgot what the offset is from the base level for the scissors attachment, but the chisel attachment is offset 26° from base level, if I remember right. But the easiest way to sharpen them is with the sharpie method anyway. The scissor attachment also grips very well, better than I expected it would.

The scissor attachment won’t work for the goat hoof shears?

Your Rack-It looks great!

I don’t have any thicker whetstones, but thanks. The diamond stones have worked great for me so far.

My 24 step-tiered Rack-It looks great! Thanks, Marc!

Sounds great, Marc. Thanks a bunch! That looks like my 24 post tiered Rack-It at the top. I can’t wait to receive it.

Thanks!

Welcome to the forum, Kevin! As to your questions, I’ll leave that to the more experienced guys.

I’ve never used the Lansky kit or any other system besides my WE. I figured that I would end up with a WE anyway so I may as well just start with it. You’re doing kinda like I did. I bought the PP3 which came with the 1500/Glass Platen stones. I added the 2200/3000 stones before the 50/80. Most of my knives had to be reprofiled and some of them,…[Read more]

Yeah, Marc is right! I sometimes forget that new people may not be very experienced with reprofiling and sharpening knives. So you do need to be careful and only use the courser grit stones when you need them, especially with knives. And I’m really OCD when it comes to removing steel – I like to remove only as much as necessary. But my previous…[Read more]

Congratulations, Bill! Welcome to the WE family. If you need to do a lot of reprofiling you will love adding the 50/80 grit stones. I just received mine several days ago and they will hog off some steel. I wish I would’ve bought them a year ago. They would’ve saved me a bunch of time and wear and tear on my 100 grit stones, not to mention my arms.

I don’t know any Japanese. I just go by the numbers.

I figured that they were made out of aluminum. But I can see that plastic would work well.

Hi Marc. I remember hearing about that spacer you have under your vise before, and then I forgot about it. Did you make it yourself?

I’m not sure. I’m learning myself and don’t know much about it. I checked Blade HQ where I bought my Launch 1 at and the Rc number for the steel wasn’t mentioned. According to the Kershaw website, their CPM-154 is Rc rated at 58-60. That pretty much goes with my findings with the files. So I’m confident that the files are pretty accurate. I can…[Read more]

Hi guys. I just received my Tsubosan Hardness Tester Files. On my Buck 301 blades the 65 file will bite, but the 60 skates across. On my Kershaw Launch 1 that has CPM-154 steel the 60 file will bite, but the 55 skates. So I guess that somehow the 425M steel in my 1990 Buck 301 was hardened harder than it was supposed to be.

You’re welcome. I’m learning too. And I’m pretty hard-headed! 😁

Yes, they do. Anytime I buy things like this I sand the screw ends and things like that just to make sure that it doesn’t become a problem. So I didn’t have the loosening problems that others have had.

But I received my Chisel Attachment several days ago. When I started sharpening a chisel, I would sometimes hit the lower stone stop pretty good…[Read more]

I have the stainless steel micro-adjusters and I love them!

Great! I hope everything goes well for you.

They always sent me a tracking number to my email when it ships.