George

[George]

I have the larger dmt plates and while I haven’t done a bunch of knives on them, I have not noticed any difference on how fast they cut – they are the same from first knife to the last. It is important for me to remember when I’m using these on the wicked edge to go easy on the pressure. When I free hand I am gripping the handle and locking my wrist to maintain the angle and then basically pushing the blade forward over the stone with two fingers on the spine of the blade, so there’s not very much downward pressure. I don’t expect this single sided 2X6 stone to be any different than the larger 3X8 plates I already use.
P.S. I also typically use water sometimes with a drop or two of dish soap to lubricate the diamond stones. I don’t know if that helps me but I feel it helps the knife glide a little better over the stone.

[George]

With the success I had with the stones hack I did to sharpen my PM2 and after being really happy with the results I decided to make a permanent custom set of stones. I bought 3 sets of blank paddles and the stone line up I modified was a 2X6 DMT DiaSharp XC bench stone, 2 Congress Moldmaster 1X6X1/4″ 400 grit stones, spyderco medium 2X8 bench stone, spyderco fine 2X8 bench stone, spyderco ultra fine 2X8 bench stone. In addition went to home depot and I picked up an 8′ length of 1″ X 1/4″ flat aluminum stock and for adhesive i used 2 tubes of gorilla glue clear epoxy. I cut the dmt dia sharp and all the bench stones to size on a wet saw. So the first set is DMT XC and congress 400 grit moldmaster, spyderco medium and fine stones, and spyderco ultra fine plus a blank side I will mount a kangaroo strop side with most likely bark river white compound. I will be trying it out tomorrow once the epoxy is fully cured. I tried to have all the stones have the same overall height and the only difference is in the dmt/moldmasters with 1/10th of a degree compared to the other two sets. Attached are photos of the finished product.

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[George]

I resharpened the PM2 with the new stone set up and the results are awesome.
The first photo is the mole master 400 affixed to the standard paddles. The second photo is of the finished results.

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[George]

The other weird thing is that even after stropping there were still quite a bit of visible scratches even after finishing with the 1000 grit stones and then stropping with bark river black and white compounds. I then took it over to my belt sander with leather belts loaded with black and white compound and the photo I posted was the result. If I had come off the belt sander with a 600 grit belt and then hit with both the black and white compounds, the edge would have been a mirror.

[George]

While I was fairly confident about raising a burr the entire length of the blade, I decided to retrace my steps and start from the beginning again. Please see the attached photo that may help describe the issue.

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