Glenn Goodlett

I have one of these

Laser Edge Goniometer Master+ – Gritomatic

It seems to match up pretty well to what the WE says.

I recently sharpened a knife at 18 dps and didn’t have any trouble getting it down to a BESS of 120. I feel sure that if I ran one down to 15 dps I could reach sub 100 with a little effort.

Thanks, I didn’t realize they had to be broken in too. Is there a particular way to break them in or just use them normally? How long does it usually take?

So, the guy that sell the stones…is recommending more stones…

Just kidding

I just ordered some Micro-Fine ceramic stones.

Thanks for the tips.

I think I will do one at 16dps and see where it comes out.

I get what your saying. I got my Hinderer Full Track to a BESS of 240 then made four long cuts on a leather sofa (trash dumped in the desert) and now it won’t cut arm hair.

I am really just playing with the WE and killing time.

I think that I will explore the photo taking abilities of my microscope to better show what I have going on and get opinions.

Thanks for the tips. I always finalized each grit with edge trailing strokes, maybe that will help.

And I agree a BESS of 180 is not dull. I’m just mostly geeking out on sharpening.

Also, thanks for all of your knowledgeable input in this community. It has been a great help to me.

I use an app to keep track of my knife collection and I put sharpening data in one of the fields as well as BESS numbers, etc. The app works pretty well and the data is on the cloud so it is available on my phone, ipad, and confuser…[Read more]

Dude, use extreme caution!

I don’t know anything, but, I copied this directly from Wikipedia.

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I never tried my microscope on a laptop however the directions say a usb cord must be used. On WiFi it seems to stay connected to my iPad mini 5 just fine so you can leave it on while sharpening. The only issue seems to be that the battery will only last about two hours. It did run down while I was sharpening several knives in a row so I plugged…[Read more]

I got this one. I think all the cheap wireless ones are about the same.

<span>https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07XJBTNBM?pf_rd_p=ab873d20-a0ca-439b-ac45-cd78f07a84d8&pf_rd_r=KQ02KRGJ101MZK6DK55N</span&gt;

I got a microscope with a built in screen and it’s not worth a dam for knife sharpening. Then I got a wireless one that connects to my iPhone or pad and it works well. Both were cheap.