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Actually, I laughed. Goodbye.

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You’re just a troublemaker. I reported you.

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

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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.

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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.

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

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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 prices since Covid when nearly everyone else has gone up in price.

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Looks good, Marc!

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

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Toker wrote:

000Robert wrote:

Toker wrote:

Even with the riser, the WE60 has more limitations on shallow angles on small knives like paring. Using a paring knife as an example, I was able to do 16° angles on the WE120. Before I added the riser, I was only able to do around 24° on the paring knife and actually scraped the clamp. After I installed the riser, I am able to do around 19° on the paring knife. Not ideal, but I can live with that since it’s just a fruit knife. On the same note, I can no longer do one of my cleavers after installing the Stabil-Rizer on WE60. Due to the height of the blade, the largest angle I can sharpen is about 22° when I would rather have something like 24°. So I still use m WE120 for that, but I have to use a bigger allen wrench in order to secure the blade better. That’s why I’m debating if the WE40 would be able to replace the WE120 for those outliers.

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.

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Toker wrote:

This looks like a great entry level sharpener. I currently own the WE120 and the WE66. I much prefer the WE66’s clamping system, but it doesn’t do really small thin knives well like paring knives. Even after I added a riser, it still has it’s limitations and doesn’t sharpen really fine angles on small blades. My WE120 doesn’t have those limitations with small blades, but the clamping system has it’s own issues. So it looks like the WE40 has a better clamping system than the original series, but obviously not as good as the new DualCam Vise. Does the WE40 allow the really small blades to be sharpened at finer angles? If so, it might be worth replacing my WE120.

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 the problem. If I had the WE40 (since it isn’t very expensive) I would see if my son could cut the base of the vise and reweld it and then I could check it out, but I don’t have one yet.

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I use the paper vise shims that Wicked Edge sells.

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Looks great!

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Kyle wrote:

For those that bought the system before the newer clamping system, have you ran into this issue? The lower pusher screw looks as if it was incorrectly drilled/tapped and heli-coil inserted. I cannot get the heli-coil back in and continue using my sharpener, which is highly inconvenient seeing how I have several knives needing sharpened before a trade show this weekend

It would help if you were more specific. Which system do you have? It would also help if you could provide some pictures.

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In lieu of more info or photos it sounds like the blade is not clamped in the ‘sweet spot’. You probably need to move your blade back toward you in the vise. Try moving it back a little bit at a time and see if that works.

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