Joe

correct, I just meant over time, might take hundreds of sharpenings.

I guess it takes a while before enough metal gets removed then because I would assume the angle on the edge would change eventually leaving the arms the same.

Are you also checking the angles and using a market at the start of each touch up session also? I’m assuming as you touch up a knife you’ll have to tweak the arms to keep the same angle.

I sharpened my first knife today on the WE130 from start to finish, its one of those old cheap “survival” knives that probably costs about $10. at the end one bevel is definitely skinnier than the other I was going for 20 dps, am I correct in saying that when you start out setting at a certain degrees you will need to re-adjust the rod every now…[Read more]

true that. 😀

I figured it out, it’s giving you a warning right after a step that you aren’t in the correct position for the next step, funny haha. I’m squared away, I was playing with zeroing, this unit is very sensitive, you’ll see all 0’s for a second then it will kinda bounce between all zeroes and like .01, .02 back to 0, a little annoying but I guess…[Read more]

It probably is calibrated I was just gonna do it again for giggles lol. I’ll check this guide.

so I got the DXL360S and thought maybe I should try to calibrate it even though they probably did that at the factory, I tried the level calibration, did step 1, spun it 180 for step 2 and it says wrong direction or something an flashes the message but then acts like it wants to go to the next step, I tried turning it 180 in both directions. Is…[Read more]

Awesome, gonna get one of them at some point.

Is there room for the metal or granite base they sell to put in there?

Might have to get me one of them.

I do plan to get the 15″ at some point, and the scissor attachment looks pretty sweet, I watched a video on it. Can you show some pictures of the hard case? They don’t show much on the website, do you have to break your entire system down to put it in there?

I got the low angle adapter, and the 12″ rods they suggest.

That’s what I am thinking, I just ordered the 800/1000 stones to go with my 100/200 and 400/600, that will honestly probably be all I ever need, I like to hand strop but I may try the WE strops.

Good idea, didn’t think of just re checking as you work it down.

Awesome, I’ve been reading forum posts all day preparing myself for my first attempt at sharpening a junk knife on my WE. I am surprised I haven’t seen anyone mention breaking in diamond stones with something like a sacrificial chisel from home depot, learned that from a buddy, works great, I pre broke in all of WE stones, they feel much smoother.

Awesome, thanks, I have a 60x jewlers loupe I use for lots of stuff but it’s annoying having to put it right up against things and put my face against it every time I wanna look at something small, like knife edges.

Quick question, am I correct in saying that when it’s time to touch up a dull knife, you need to create a burr again? Assuming with a high grit stone though maybe 800, or lower if that doesn’t create a burr?

What is the current good but not crazy expensive USB microscope, I saw this one linked in another post?

Quick question, when you are trying to change the angle of the bevel, say a 24 down to a 20 for example, when you lay the stone on that side, it’s going to probably contact the shoulder of the bevel, would you just take that angle with your angle cube, adjust the arm until the cube reads 20 and then go with that? or like if you wanna just take it…[Read more]