Mark76
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Congratulations, Andy! And if you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to ask. And merry christmas!
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And this sounds similar to what Mark76 does already. But I think this circle contour jig is fundamentally safer (it’s static, with no sliding things across the blade edge), and potentially quicker (you just tilt/move the knife until it matches a curve on the jig), so I do think it’s worth seeing this through to a solution.
I completely agree, Graphite, I just wanted to make people aware who only read this forum scarcely (and there are quite a few of them) and then think “this must be complicated”. But you’re completely right it is not and it makes live easier.
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I got it.
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Does it have anything to do with the pivot point is out to the side away from the plane of the arc board. You’re not drawing a flat circle or arc like you did with the beam compass, working down flat where your pivot point was at the center and on the same flat plane. You’re leaning into the cardboard at an angle before you touch it to draw your arcs.
Isn’t this exactly what Tom was saying? You could easily try it out by using a pencil attached to a rod, so that the rod is complete vertical.
Great subject, by the way, guys! The only thing I have to be wary of is not to make things too difficult for beginners to comprehend, so that the WEPS gets the impression of being a bit difficult in use (which it is not – but because we put so much emphasis on advanced things it might get).
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This is a great post! You describe, I think, an accurate way of finding the sweet spot (or multiple sweet spots if you want to re-clamp the knife).
Basically, this is also what I do to find the sweet spot, only without the tools. (And in addition I usually don’t re-clamp a knife more than once and I put the backs of knives often on the pins – all to increase repeatability).
I usually clamp a knife, then use a stone (or more accurately, my finger on a rod) to see what would “overall” be the best position and then re-clamp the knife to this position. It’s a lot less advanced than your method with tools, but it’s easy and in practice it works out quite well.
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Hi Eric, welcome to the forum, too. I support Marc in that is probably the most advanced WE 130, but the stones don’t realy differ. Basiccally the WE 130 is more precise, repeatable and easy to clamp. But as far as sharpening itself goes, it doesn’t matter that much. If you want to reporfile a Shun I’d start 100 grits, but some people here start at 400 grits. And then you go as sharp as you want and also use the lapping films, if you want to.
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Unless the knife is a real junker, when you’re done, you can always find somebody you can gift it to. Everybody loves a sharp knife. I have a half-dozen different razor-sharp Chicago Cutlery knives waiting for happy homes.
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Here everything works fine now, with the exception that PM’s are not available.
I also noted in the accounts section that my postal code is not correct anymore. (I do have a rather oddly formatted postal code, because it’s Dutch.) Has there been some kind of conversion that did no go well 100%? And when I view my address, the postal code is shown after the country name instead of before or after the name of the city I live in.
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Great document, Graphite, thanks!
Maybe someone with write-access to the knowledge base could save it there. Chris?
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I personally don’t have a problem with previous PM’s disappearing, but it would be nice if you could give us a warning a few days ahead, so we can save the ones we don’t want to lose. (A simple copy-paste into a Word-document would solve the problem for me, I think.)
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