Marc H

Welcome to the Wicked Edge Forum and sharpening community, JohnnyR.   That’s a great set-up you chose.  You have pretty much everything you’ll need.  I write that with a smirk on my mind.  Once you get the hang of it you’ll find other accessories you just need to have.  Enjoy the journey.

Leo you set your angles making gross adjustments first then microfine adjustments to fine tune your sharpeners angle settings to read the desired angle with your angle cube.  Not the opposite way.  Don’t use the sharpeners settings to set your desired precise angle settings.

The sharpener’s inscribed settings are simply an indication of the a…[Read more]

My knives are so sharp they called me to borrow one to use in the Large Hadron Collider in Geneva Switzerland to split atomic particles.

LOL

I rely on visual inspection with a USB microscope in conjunction with finger feel for the burr and edge sharpness.  I also test each grit edge for sharpening progression by pulling a piece of newspaper down across the clamped knives edges.  I’m looking for the change, that is the improvement, in ease of cutting the paper and the sound made while c…[Read more]

Just yo be clear…nobody is right or wrong.  The beauty of it is our techniques can be totally different while each of us can have similar results.  Take what you like from each of us and put it together how you like it and it works best ffg or you.

As long as you’re angles are consistent and your sharpening strokes are as apexing the knife e…[Read more]

I don’t share that experience.  For me the burr forms quickly and easily with little effort, once the initial burr is created with my beginning coarsest grit.  As I progress through the finer and finer grits the burr forms quicker and easier with each subsequent finer grit.

I don’t keep a track of my time spent sharpening. There is no reason f…[Read more]

A burr is the direct result of exercising good proper sharpening technique well enough and long enough.

-Terry, as you wrote, consistent repeated stone position, while making these angle readings, is key and necessary to take advantage of the sharpener’s potential precision.

Many of us use our angle cubes to make angle readings to double check and re-adjust our sharpening stone angle settings, each and every grit change.  I’m of the belief to have a knife sharpener that allows this level of repeatable precision to take advantage of this ability.

Yes. Zero your cube only once at the beginning of your sharpening session.  The cube will read consistently as long as the W.E. sharpener sits on a stable steady surface and has not been moved or shifted.

-Terry the angle indicators on the sharpeners are just that, indicators,  a suggested starting place.  The true indicator of your relative bevel angles are those readings you get using a properly zeroed digital angle cube.

The angle markers on the table, as you call it, are arbitrary and were made with a knife positioned and clamped a certain w…[Read more]

My favorite kitchen knife is so sharp, it cut my finger when I was in the bedroom.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fP4KE3pNyPE

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Looks good.  Two differences, the BESS device does capture and reflect the reading at the breaking point.  Also the BESS has been tested and calibrated to the test filaments they use.

Your’s will certainly give you an indication of relative sharpness.  Good job. You get an “A” for ingenuity.

Just use them regularly as you would use the diamond stones.   I can’t give you a timeline.  I just can share that they took longer to break in then I expected.  Some users suggest that rubbing the ceramic stones together like grit against the same grit helps wear the surface coating off.  Only use these ceramic stones dry.  Do not use an abras…[Read more]

Glen, just so you know, the ceramic stones are used just like the diamond stones, except they have a long break-in period.  They seem to have a coating on the stones from the high heat manufacturing process.  They do require some amount of use and wear to remove this coating and to get the best results out of them.  They are non-magnetic and th…[Read more]

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Jogan,  those markings on the angle bar are not absolute, rather an approximation.  Just an indicator.  These indicators correspond to certain knife size and clamped position W.E chose to use to calibrate the device with, while making these angle markings.  These markings are only intended to give you an idea but are not a true value of your ang…[Read more]