Chazz

I always zeroed it base down and used it with the magnet attaching it to the stone.  I think you’re overthinking it.  These are relative angles we’re setting, relative to the zeroed horizontal position.  As long as every angle you set using the cube is done with the same method and cube /stone placement relative to the clamped knife, it’ll give yo…[Read more]

These are water soluble suspensions. Some bottles you have to really shake, shake, shake…I’m sure that if the company filling the bottles didn’t shake it well, to start, you could have a more watery bottle full.

The higher the grit, the larger/heavier the diamond, the more prone it is to settle out…the more you’ll need to shake it up.

I have not experienced the diamond stones becoming magnetized.   I have used 5 different brand digital angle devices.  The one I’m using now has the strongest magnet.  I do see some metal fuzz on the  digital cube, sometimes, that I wipe away.

Welcome Joe,  check out the Wicked Edge Shopper’s and Buyer’s Guide .

It may help you decide which model you’d like to use.  We’re happy to answer your questions.

Joe, welcome to the Wicked Edge Forum and sharpening community.

Haffner,  we have had a similar discussion on this forum, in the past, for mounting Wicked Edge stones on Wicked Edge paddles so they could be removable/interchangeable.   There’s been ideas thrown around but nothing anyone has ever done and shared about, yet.

I agree with Pinkfloyd.  I forgot convexing edges was on your wish list.  The Gen 3 Pro is the only model Wicked Edge that allows you to simply convex knive edges.  It will take attention to detail and convex edges are a tedious, laborious, process, but it’s not hard to do with the Gen 3 Pro.

tcmeyer has a Youtube video showing how he does this.

I’d start 100/200, 400/600, 800/1000.  Then, I’d suggest the 1500 diamond with 6µ diamond lapping film for the glass blank side.  Then I’d go with 2 sets of leather strops, with diamond emuslions: 4µ/2µ, then 1.0µ/0.5µ.  Then call it finished.  This is a good all around progression to achieve a very sharp and fairly polished edge once the diamond…[Read more]

DeeR, you hit it right on the head.  You use your eyeballs, your tools like an angle cube and your common sense to try to align it and record that position as best you can.  At best, it’s an educated guess.

If the results are you were able to sharpen your Tormec assisted, clamped knife, then consider it a success.

Please don’t misunderstand m…[Read more]

Welcome to the Wicked Edge forum Tony.  Is it possible to post a photo of one of these knives clamped in your vise, in the same position you sharpened it.  That may help us to help you.

Here’s a 36 aluminum post Lg Curved Rectangular Rack-It, I just finished.  It’s ready to send off to a “Face Book Edge Snobs” Wicked Edge user.  It’ll accommodate 18 pairs of any medium, type or thickness, Wicked Edge paddles.

He’s just about a year into sharpening with his Wicked Edge but it’s obvious he has plans to expand his stone c…[Read more]

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airscapes,    There are two reasons to employ paddle bumpers or stones stops, my preferred name. One reason is to cushion the stone as it bumps down against the ball arms.  The other reason, which is why I started using use these stone stops, is to limit the travel and the range of motion of the sharpening paddles as they slide up and down the gui…[Read more]

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Lenny, realize the Pro Pack II was introduced about 5 or 6 years ago, possible longer, with those includes grit mediums, in that combination and it has never been changed or updated, since.  It was conceived as a sort of, “one size fits all” combination top-of-the-line sharpening set-up.  It still works today, just as well as it did when i…[Read more]

Stropping like other mediums has a progression from coarse to fine grit.  The difference with stropping compounds are the abrasive grit materials are suspended in the stropping compound, whichever your using, (i.e., paste, emulsions or spray solutions), and they’re not affixed and held in place to the substrate, like sharpening mediums.  This a…[Read more]

My next addition would be the 1500 Diamond Stone/Glass Blank combo with 6µ Diamond lapping Film, on the glass, to round out the  sharpening profile, before finishing with the leather strops.  5µ/ 3.5µ paste followed with 1µ/0.5µ paste is a good start.  I prefer the basic “cow” leather strops.  I think they’re more forgiving and less expensiv…[Read more]

Yes. that is correct.  My preference is the feel of the diamond emulsion compounds.  The paste works similarly, they’re probably less expensive to use in the long run.  It’s just a personal preference.  I do have and use both.  Bottom line is, use one or the other to bring the best cutting potential  out of your sharpened edges.  The strops…[Read more]

Welcome to the Wicked Edge Forum and sharpening  community, Will.

For the basic WE130 setup I’d recommend adding the 800/1000 grit stones, to start and at least a leather strop pair.  I think the 4 micron/2 micton diamond emulsion is a good start.

After you get some basic experience, develop your sharpening technique, and get your stones b…[Read more]

Welcome to the Wicked Edge Forum, Kevin.

The Gen 3 Pro is: 12″ tall X 12″ wide X 6″ deep.

Some users have taken their Gen 3 Pro Sharpeners off of the shelf pedestal and use it down flat on the table top.  Others, like myself have mounted the sharpeners on an additional base, (granite for my Gen 3 Pro), and use them without the shelf pedestal.  I…[Read more]