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[Marc H (Wicked Edge Expert Corner)]

Rob, interesting question…I think there is no one steel that you can pick that would give you the learning experience you can gain by sharpening everything and anything, that is any steel you can. Sharpening uses the same techniques with every steel. Master the techniques.

That said a steel around HRc 60 is a good balance between hardness and ease of sharpening. It’s not too hard that it’s difficult to sharpen but it’s hard enough to require a little bit of effort.

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Welcome to the W.E. Forum, Andy.  To achieve wider angle settings with the WE66 you might be able to use the W.E. Scissors Adapter if you can clamp the shears by the handle, or possible with the Tormek Small knife adapter.

Another option is to try a physical wedge-shaped spacer between the vise jaws and the shears to offset the clamping position to one side. With the shears you are sharpening one side at a time anyway, so it may be doable.

 

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Toker wrote:

 I love that it’s an option, but it just wouldn’t be worth it for the 5 or so knives that I use my original Wicked Edge for. I probably sharpen them about once a year.

I have a lot of knives. There’s always one needing a Wicked Edge.

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This copied and pasted from W.E. website:

“The Wicked Edge Convex Edge Kits allow you the ability to create, maintain, and polish a convex edge on your blades.

A convexed edge allows you to produce the most durable edge possible by rounding the bevels and providing more material for the edge to push against. Perfect for hunting, bushcrafting, or any high impact task, you can easily take an already Wicked Edge and convex it.”

It says nothing about shoulders.

I have the kit but I have not used my kit yet.

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Toker wrote:

For anything else, I just pull out my older WE120 and sharpen on that. I still keep that around to sharpen a few cleavers that I have. Unfortunately, adding the riser to the WE66 makes it so I can no longer do a 25° deg on a really tall cleaver.

There’s always the trusted old WE1## series for utility…gotta love square bars. There’s an upgrade with the Dual-Cam vise now.

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Glad to hear you’re enjoying the new WE66.  It’s not even in the same league as your other two older models. This is where the innovation has led. Better equipped models and easier to use, than ever in a whole new generation. WE certainly stepped up. IMO, WE66 Obsidian is the perfect balance between budget, ease of use, compactness, features and practicality.

Even still adapters and accessories are helpful and due have a place. Glad our riser block is helpful for those low angle clamping brushes.

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Sorry for the F up, that was made. It sucks to not be able to use it now. Try to submit a ticket: Customer Support. 

I will see if I can help also.

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The WE66 Obsidian is a GREAT option. IMO, it’s the best bang-for-your-buck$$ model that Wicked Edge offers!

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New to nice knives wrote:

Just received my WE 66. I thought I had purchased a set of 200/600 and 800/1000, but despite what was advertised I only received the 200/600 stones! Are these adequate for quality EDC and kitchen knives, or should I wait for the finer stones? I already have pretty good edges from my Spyderco Sharpmaker.

Welcome to the WE Forum, New to nice knives: All the WE 60 Series kits are sold and shipped with only 200/600 unless another stone or edge kit has been specifically purchased as an add-on.

If you did purchase the extra stones and WE failed to provide these….they will take care of your misadventure when they are contacted. The customer service is excellent. It’s best to contact them via the contact form at the website…

With any WE model, all of them….for the new-to-WE user experience, expect to see marked improvement to any previous knife sharpening you have done….once you get it figured out anfd get the hang of it. Add more steps for improvement, with more stones, etc., it’s endless, like Mjcollier said. It’s a rabbit-hole of fun.

Because of this, all that WE can be, I started my own facebook group, The Expert Corner, where we discuss everything about knife sharpening as it applies to W.E. users, in deep detail.

This video is a conversation about navigating the WE shopping experience….to pick the boxes.

 

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Ribstabsheart wrote:

Finally had time to go through the videos, thank you so much for taking the time to explain things for me! – You mentioned scrubbing in the first video, I like to do this in the beginning with the low grits to set the apex. Do you do that for grits higher than 50/80/100?

I do every grit the same way. The same routine, start to finish, consistently. That includes beginning at the beginning, with single sided scrubbing strokes…Even when working up to the very fine grits I still re-establish the flatness of each bevel, again and again with each next grit using scrubbing strokes…After verifying and re-adjusting the set-angles if necessary. It’s quick. Maybe it’s unnecessary. But you may catch a bad spot that otherwise may have gone overlooked. Consistency and repetition are my goal when working towards a mirror polished appearing edge.

Realize, it’s very hard to have both, a perfect mirror shine and a super sharp cutting edge. One quality may sacrifice the out the other. It’s a balance we look to achieve, like everything we do.

I invite Wicked Edge Users to join my Face Book Group for more content like this.

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That’s the dilemma. Where to go back to improve the outcomes? Re-doing the stropping regimen as you look to adjust your stropping setback angle, is a logical plan of action. I would certainly start there.

The problem is, if your outcomes are not improved you don’t know if you didn’t do enough or was it just wrong. There’s no telling the depth of the remnant scratches or when they were laid down. Without starting at the beginning, if you’re outcome is not to your liking, you’ll never really be sure why it was not as you expected.

I generally will use the knife till it needs to be sharpened. It’s hard to learn anything by sharpening a sharp knife without removing and wasting good steel looking to get to a new, fresh starting spot.

The challenges of trying to achieve that perfect mirror polish and the point of diminishing returns led me more towards the pursuit of a good sharp working edges and maybe not ones that are so mirror perfect.

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Great conversation, I hope these three videos cover what I can share with everyone on this observation:

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Be very careful with down and on, edge-leading strokes!  Watch that your fingers are safely positioned on the sharpening stones and not dangling or exposed to the sharpened knife edge.

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