Chico Neto

[Chico Neto]

Thank you guys for such a detailed info!

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David

[Chico Neto]

Organic wrote:

Welcome Chico Neto! My best guess is that you have been missing the apex when you switch over to the ceramic stones. If you have a digital angle gauge you should use that to verify that the angles stay the same throughout your sharpening progression. I do this with every single grit change. The other thing you can do is to use a sharpie marker on the edge and then do a few passes and examine the bevels under magnification. If you are reaching the apex you will see no sharpie remaining at the very tip. If there is still sharpie remaining then your angle has changed and you need to correct for this. Another thing that you’ll want to consider is lowering you sharpening angle when using strops. If you sharpen at 18 degrees with the stones, try stropping with 16.5 degrees with the leather. The leather strops compress and can cause the knife to become dulled. Decreasing the angle can help compensate for this. The jump from 14 micron to 0.25 micron is very large. Generally you want to use a more gradual grit progression if you are trying to get mirrored bevels. The ceramic stones usually leave a hazy finish and will not give a mirrored finish on their own. The 14 micron strop is a good choice for after the ceramic stones. I would suggest you try 10 micron diamond paste, then 4 micron and 2 micron. If you do enough passes you should be able to get a nice mirrored edge with that progression.

thank you for the quick reply and such detailed info! It was pretty helpful.

I got it good until I reach the 10um. I put 20 dps (checked with angle cube) when I got the leather and put 18 dps and started to stroke. How many strokes is it good? I think I passed a lot (around 50 on each side). Its pretty sharp, but again when I reached the leather I got it dulled, still sharp but not that razor sharp. I even think that before until the 14um was sharper. The mirror got ok, not even decent for what the WE can do. Thanks again! I attached a shot.

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[Chico Neto]

Hello. This is my first post. I use WE for quite a while now. Im having a hard time to achieve a mirror polished edge + razor sharp. I got a decent polished (not as good as I see some people put it) but it doesnt get razor sharp. Afther 1000 grit I usually go to 1200 + 1600 ceramics then after the ceramics stones I noticed that the blade is getting dull, polished but a little dull.  After the ceramics I normaly use 14um + leather and then 0.25um spray + balsa.  What the experts thing of it? Thank you in advanced.

Ps. Sorry for some english mistake. Has been a while since I dont practise/speak.

[Chico Neto]

Hello. This is my first post. I use WE for quite a while now. Im having a hard time to achieve a mirror polished edge + razor sharp. I got a decent polished (not as good as I see some people put it) but it doesnt get razor sharp. Afther 1000 grit I usually go to 1200 + 1600 ceramics then after the ceramics stones I noticed that the blade is getting dull, polished but a little dull.

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