Thanks for the replies, much appreciated.
I realize I left my post a little lacking of info. I was in the middle of sharpening and rather frustrated. I understand the 100/200 stones are more for reprofiling. I won’t take them to a knife already sharpened. The reason I’ve been using them is that I’m finding out, most factory edges are not = on my knives. For example, I’ve had one knife with a 17.1 and 23 angle and it was a Damascus EDC. I’ve come across several of these and that is why I started working more with the 100/200s.
I bought the WEPS Pro 1 less than a month ago through amazon. I’ve added the upgrade kit, bought a USB x600 microscope and have added several stone sets, including the 50/80’s because of these 100’s taking forever to reprofile. I’ve sharpened less than 15 knives on this setup, most of them coming out decent. I blame that on my learning curve. After all, I did buy this because I can’t do it freehand…
I won’t have time for another day, but I will check out your process for testing the grits on an old junk knife cbwx34. My guess is that the 100’s are beat down. Not sure what I did to do this, but they feel more between 200’s & 400’s. Deffinately less gritty (smoother) than the 200’s
as for cleaning, I thought about this as well and have used an ultrasonic cleaner, windex, vibrating toothbrush, simple dawn soap and water. I’m fairly certain I have been able to clean them, however it doesn’t appear to change how these feel, sharpen.
thanks again for the support
edit:
for the record, I’m not trying to create an apex, burr with the 50/80’s. I’m simply using them to reprofile. From my understanding, apexing with 50/80’s can create micro chips (hence why I bought the microscope), but the 100/200’s should create the burr, and have on my first 10 knives or so.
