Bill Wood
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07/12/2013 at 3:39 am #13224
DONE…. Bill
07/12/2013 at 3:30 am #13223Hello All. I haven’t been on the site much, been very busy this spring and summer. Originally from Columbus Ga. Moved to Atlanta Ga. for couple of years, been in Elizabethtown, Ky. since 1974. (40 miles south of Louisville).
Retired Chief of Police, now work in family business (Pawn Shop and Golf cart business).
Have been wearing out my stones sharpening blades. 😆 😆
04/06/2013 at 3:58 am #10698If it were me a would at this point start back over with the 400 diamonds. To raise a burr? Scrub on just one side evenly. Then with a finger nail run it against the blade going towards the edge. When a burr is formed you will feel a small lip along the edge. Make sire that lip goes from heel to tip.
When done with the one side, switch to the other side and repeat. Feeling for the burr on the other side now. When you have a burr from heel to tip stop. Now using the same stones and alternating strokes lightly make around forty to fifty passes. This will remove the burr or also called a wire edge. When you have done this run your nail back up both sides and make sure the lip is gone!
Now start making your passes gong up the grades with at least fifty alternating strokes up to 1000 grit.
You should now be ready to strop? Then knife will be very toothy but sharp.
Have fun!!!I agree with most of this assessment, however I believe after raising your bur, the additional stokes with the same stones is not needed (IMO). After getting my bur on both sides I proceed to the next higher stone and continue thru the regular progression. My edges come out wickedly sharp. Now since I have not tried the above method I might give it a shot and see if there is any noticeable difference. It just seems to me that you are just taking off metal for no reason.
Sorry but the top section that was inserted did not highlight in blue as I have seen in other posts. I did a regular copy and paste. Can someone explain how to make inserts with them being highlighted?
04/02/2013 at 8:19 am #10628Thanks Clay
I’ll go back and reenter the knives.
03/31/2013 at 7:33 am #10562Hey Clay
Did you ever find out why some of the posts to the knife dated base never posted. Maybe their just floating around somewhere or is it best to repost them? I definitely want to build up some points. :p
03/27/2013 at 12:09 pm #10508Well it’s been 2 weeks since I posted my first knife in the knife data base and have yet to see it. It was mentioned that someone had to approve the entries. If for some reason the entry is not approved will the person be notified as to why it wasn’t posted?
03/20/2013 at 8:39 am #10369Oh, you got me wrong. I would never try to cut some of her hair, I just grab a couple and pluck them out. :woohoo:
03/19/2013 at 1:48 pm #10330Welcome aboard
If you have any question don’t hesitate to ask, there are many knowledgeable souls more than willing to help you.
03/19/2013 at 10:03 am #10323Well fella’s, I’m having a different problem with checking the hair whittling edge on my knifes. For the past 10 years I have been shaving my head and the wife is getting tired of me sneaking up behind her and snatching a couple of hairs from her head. :woohoo: I’ll have to stop that for a while or my arm will be too sore to sharpen any knives. She said she would cut off a few but lets face it, it’s just not as fun that way. 🙂
03/13/2013 at 11:33 am #10217Thanks, did not know that. I guess he will see that it was posted twice since I didn’t think it went thru the first time. :ohmy:
03/10/2013 at 12:36 pm #10096Hi Jamey. I just recently received my WEPS and had a similar problem. That you used a pair of pliers to tighten the thumb screws I don’t know if my answer will help. I noticed my thumb screws were also loosening up and what I found helpful was as I tightend the screws I grabbed the bracket the thumbscrew goes into and wiggled it back and forth and this seemed to let the screw seat tighter. Anyways this helped me.
03/10/2013 at 12:26 pm #10095Stephen,
I too can understand your frustration. I ordered my WEPS the week after I saw it in action at the Las Vegas gun show. I was told I would be about a month before it would ship and I would not be billed until it was shipped. After about two week I made it a point to call at least once a week to check on the shipping status. On the week it was supposed to ship I was told it would be another week. That next week I contacted WE again and was told it would be shipped in 2 days. The evening of the second day I received conformation that it had been shipped. This was a Wednesday, I recieved the WEPS the following week on Friday. As others have stated and I agree, the wait is more than worth it.
I don’t know the internal workings of their business but I am sure they are not slow to respond just because they are just sitting around. I also never got a response when contacting them via e-mail, however I had excellent results by calling. I almost always talked to someone (Kay or I believe his name was Tom). They were very polite and always had an answer within a minute or two, maybe not what I wanted to hear (as far as shipping time was concerned) but always had an answer.
If you call them do it before 3:00 their time. Between 3:00 and 5:00 they are in their shipping department getting orders ready to be shipped out and usually do not answer the phone.
If you call before 3:00 and get the answering don as I did. I just hung up, waited a few minutes and called again. I never had to call more than three times before someone answered. Maybe they were away from the phone or on the other line but I was always able to get someon to answer the phone.
I have always had a business for the past thirty years but The one thing I do not understand is why there is always a delay (back ordered items). It seem that their business is growing by leaps and bounds and I would think they would order 2-3 more times more product so they could handle the amount of business they have calls for. Then again I do not have knowledge of their internal structure.
Hopes this helps.
Bill
03/09/2013 at 9:32 am #10072What’s up Josh. He was happy as could be, said he had about 10 more knives and was going to bring in two of them this monday. I realy enjoy sharpening and making a few bucks makes it that much nicer. :cheer:
03/09/2013 at 9:25 am #10071Hey Mark. I have a pawn shop so I see many knives, but not to many good knives (Spyderco etc.)
03/08/2013 at 1:51 pm #10044Yea I know what you mean. Usually doing something like cutting my finger the way I did will differently keep me on guard when sharpening.
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