Hogdog

Thanks again MarkH excellent point. I do use trailing edge strokes and an elongated edge makes perfect sense. Should I use edge leading for my final diamond grit?  I’m aware of the safety hazards using edge leading.

Thank you MarcH. I appreciate your advise and will try to reverse engineer  my process. As a side note I use a very light touch with my stropping and the increase in edge sharpness is always impressive to me. Also I do use a loupe and I don’t see any remnants of a burr after sharpening however I  haven’t looked at the edge after the loss of p…[Read more]

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I run micro bevels on all of my EDC’s for the touch up reason you were asking about.  I generally sharpen  at 17* with a 20* micro bevel. When I touch up very little steel is removed. Use this on all my Leatherman’s and a few others.  I also micro bevel my kitchen knives using more acutely angles.  As far as adding a toothy edge I too go with 100…[Read more]

Completely agree with Marc on Using a strop to do as many touch ups as possible. May I also suggest when you do need to touch up with diamonds use a micro bevel as to take as little as steel as possible.

If I could only get my knives to “smell sharp”. Haha. Good info… thanks

To me it just makes sense to add a sharpening choil unless it’s a high end collector piece, that shouldn’t be used or sharpened anyway. I add one to all my knives it really helps protect against bolster or handle damage and IMHO I like the way they look.

I use my Tormek to profile and finish on my WE all the time. The hollow bevel from the Tormek is so insignificant that I’ve not seen an issue.

Super cool!  Thanks for sharing, it’s great seeing good companies grow.

On my Go with the leather strops I added to it the edge I get I greatly improved above what I get just ending at the 600 grit. Excellent edge for my hard working cardboard cutting EDC.

I have a Go with steer leather strops using .3 and . 5 micron paste and I get very good results.   Of course I cannot get the mirror finish that I get with my ProPack, the results are a little toothy which is exactly what I want on a kitchen or EDC knife.  I would start there, it doesn’t cost anymore to add later. Just my two cents worth.

I’ve got nothing to add here except appreciating the knowledge you all are sharing on this thread. I wanted to thank you.

My go is great I did add a set of 5 / 3.5 leather strops and it works very well for keeping my edc sharp.

Beautiful work. Really enjoy this post and look forward to more of your handy work. I find I have too many hobbies but I fear you’ve inspired a new one.

Great story appreciated reading about your experiences.