-Terry

Perfect, thank you .

Sorry for all the confusion, and mixed content. I’ll try to keep my topics separated now.

Any particular USB microscope recommended?

Do I need something between the 1000 and strops, like a 1600 grit? No I can’t be absolutely sure my stones are truly broken in, but I’ve spent an awful lot of time using them, and Im getting way more metal filings, and less stone grit dust than before. Practice and patience have never been my strongpoints, but I guess itsi time to learn.

That is correct

Just to clarify, I have not tried using the sharpie between grits yet, because I had already resharpened it b4 I read that suggestion .

So in an effort to get a sharper edge today, I reprofiled my blade from 40° to 30°.  Unfortunately I still can’t get a paper slicing edge. I did use an angle cube, started with a 100 grit to reshape the bevels, got my wire edge on both sides each time, each grit, cleaning the blade between grits. 100, 200, 400, 600, 800, 1000. After each grit be…[Read more]

Wealth of knowledge on this forum. Thanks everyone

I thought the sharpie was just to find the proper angle, and not reapplied again that.

Could you please elaborate?

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So how many of you use the method ”’smokeeater908′ shows in his video on this site?

Thanks for all your help .

Thank you for the quick response. I have learned a lot from Youtube University already, and  put much of it to use with sharpening.  I have yet to find one explaining why there are angle numbers on the system, if the height of the blade changes all of that, seems that an angle cube is the only true way to know your angle, maybe Im missing s…[Read more]