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Ronnie, thanks for your post. The best way to contact Customer Service is through email at support@wickededgeusa.com. We don’t respond over the weekend but usually get back to people pretty quickly during the week. Responses might have been slower last week due to the holiday sale.

Kurt,

Clay here, founder of Wicked Edge. You’re making a lot of unfounded assumptions, so please allow me to set you straight.

1. First, you’re assuming that we’re making buckets of profit. In this first assumption, you’re dead wrong.
   1. I’m guessing you don’t have a lot of familiarity of what it takes to run a business these days. There is a lot…

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Sorry for jumping in here without reading the previous posts (TLDR), but I have the following to share:

Uneven bevels usually mean that the apex is off-center, assuming that the angles are the same, although I’ve seen it knives I ground rather badly, where the flats are not truly flat.

To correct the differences, simply take more strokes on the…[Read more]

The slickest method I’ve used in the past is isopropyl alcohol with a battery-powered scrubber.

The fact is that I haven’t cleaned my diamond stones in years.  The swarf simply does not accumulate to the point where it’s a problem.  But I don’t use my sharpener on the dining room table, like some users.

A bigger reason may be that the factories don’t want to taper the tip to match the primary grinds, as it would leave the tip subject to breakage.  The wider bevel doesn’t mean necessarily that the angle is more obtuse.  Trying to find a sweet spot that gives you a constant bevel width at the tip will drive you nuts, unless it’s a very thin b…[Read more]

The chart has been updated to revision 15.  The directory link in the original post has been broken.  Here it is again:

https://myplace.frontier.com/~mr.wizard/GLGC/

I have three WE rigs: A Gen 3 Pro with a 3/4″ riser block added and the SS aftermarket micro adjusts (my design), a WE130 with the same type microadjusters and what would called a WE120, with the original vise and on which I use the rods/microadjusters from the WE130 rig.

The Gen 3 Pro is a very nice rig.  I especially like the incremental…[Read more]

I can’t imagine not using the micro-adjust on every knife I sharpen.

The main purpose is to match the angle of the edge of the knife you just mounted.  If you know what that angle is, you’ll want to be spot-on to avoid starting a major profile job.  If you don’t know what the angle is, you’ll want to use the micro-adjusts to zero-in on the c…[Read more]

Mcmaster Carr sells carbon fiber rods which you could thread yourself if you get a 1/4″-28 die and die handle.
Carbon fiber rods are quite expensive at $50 plus shipping for a 48″ length.

They also sell rods in Garolite, which I believe is the equivalent of G10 and has some lubricity to it.  It sells for $16 per 48″ rod.

I made my rods from…[Read more]

I’ve been using a micron/mesh chart that was published by Advanced Abrasives about 10 years ago.  It’s always worked for me and seems to match up very close to the chart on the WE grit/micron list taken from the WE support list.

I think it’s important to note that we’re not publishing a set of standards for the industry – just a guideline to use…[Read more]

I’ve run into this problem of abnormally large clusters of diamond grit a few times before.  In instances where the cluster is aligned parallel to the stone, they are really hard to knock off and the normal process of breaking them in doesn’t do it.  On particularly hard steels like my ZDP-189’s, they can produce some really nasty chips.  I fo…[Read more]

I do not believe so.  The “old” values were posted before the effect-measurement method* was discussed, and the “new” values are described with “This chart is not our suggested sharpening progression, it is simply showing the order of grits from coarsest to finest.”

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Jeff,

That’s terrible all the way around. The only good thing is the quality of your photos… I’ve asked our Customer Success manager to reach out and try to fix this for you more quickly.

Sorry I’m late on this one, but here’s one tidbit I have to share:

If the long bore diameter is larger than the rod diameter, you’ll want rods which are extra long.  If you slide the handle high enough to have the rod drop out of the upper bushing, you’ll see some angular error and if the bushing are a tight fit, you’ll see some binding between…[Read more]

The spammer has been blocked, thank you Marc. Is anyone still getting spammy messages?

Hi Marc:

How do the micro-adjusters work??  What are the internals?

Gordon,

I didn’t want to reply earlier because I knew the new Gen 4 was coming out.  It wouldn’t be right if I had inside information and got a few more dollars for my Gen 3.

My Gen has a riser block (1.3″) added and my custom made micro-adjuster kit.  It’s the later model with the adjustable tension control on the vise jaws.  I have a brand ne…[Read more]

I used the VSTAs quite a bit and with good success when I was using custom stones which varied in thickness by more than 0.010 – 0.015 of an inch.  They take only a few seconds to make an adjustment, as compared to using an angle cube with each grit change.  Like Mark says, they never really caught on and users simply found it easier to either u…[Read more]

I had to look at a few of the new product photos to see what you meant.  The new version has only one pair of holes for the height position key.

I don’t know how different the hole height position is from the previous version, so can’t say for sure, but my experience is that there’s only a small change from one position to another, whether you…[Read more]