Marc H (Wicked Edge Expert Corner)

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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.

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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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WE just released a new upgraded version of Low Angle Adapter. I would expect it to ba back in stock soon. W.E. released a lot of new models recently. I suspect they are just backed up trying to meet the new demand.

The WE1## series and the Gen 3 Pro were discontinued. These models were replaced with the WE40, WE60 Series and the Gen 4 Pro.

The new Dual-Cam Vises are being released on a limited basis, at this time, as an upgrade option for the discontinued models. There are various after-market accessories and adapter being produced now to accommodate these upgrade options.

With the release the new models, this past year or so, Wicked Edge has been trying to keep up with the demand. I expect the supply will even out soon.

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Let me add this to clarify my sharpening routine:

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John. I do each and every grit or stone I use the same. I start with scrubbing strokes individually, each side, then alternatingly to draw a burr evening it out on both sides of the knife across the entire blade length.

I follow that with alternating side down and on edge leading strokes. I use each grit like it’s my last looking to achieve the sharpest edge I can with each individual grit.

I verify my set angle with each and every grit. I repeat the process with each and every grit scrubbing first, and finishing with alternate side edge leading strokes.

Every stone I do the same routine.

I finish with a two-step stropping process using 4 micron then 2 micron compounds.

You may want to adjust, or reduce your set angle by one or two degrees more acute than your sharpening angle. This will help prevent rounding over your stropped, sharpened edges.

Strop in short vertical or perpendicular to the edge, overlapping up and off alternating side stropping strokes. Attempt to maintain full flat contact with light even stropping pressure.

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Welcome to the Wicked Edge Forum and sharpening community, John. I hope this helps.

Edit: John, after re-reading your description, I’m thinking you have a “Field and Sport” model: with the WE130 Cam lever vise on a hollow shaped square base that clamps down using a C-clamp.

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Here’s a great old question that was recently presented to me, again. To let you WE users know whether it’s a new or older model, we’re here to help at this facebook group and at this Forum also.

 

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