Roikyou

The point of a guided system is to take as much of the human element imperfections out of the equation as possible. It’s like putting a new tire on a car without balancing the tire but you eye ball it, it looks good, so it must be balanced. I’m just trying to understand how it works, with that understanding, either I can or can’t make it work for me.

I agree, I think the finishing grind is rarely even which I think your right, could be the reason one side could take more adjustment than the other. Here’s my over thinking, if that is true, than what you really need is both arms and micro adjustment as close to even as possible to help even out the finishing hand grind, even out the bevels. If…[Read more]

The idea of buying an add on to be able to sharpen a 3″ knife which half my knives are three inch, kind of bugs me. Instead of buying an add on, why not keep the KME for small knives. Then again, why two systems for two different sizes of knives. I agree with you skssharp, I think I’ll be contacting them tomorrow. Thanks again for everyone’s help.

Here’s where I sit, just to try to get an edge on this knife, try to mount it and set the angle.

You can see to set to 16 degrees, one side has to be almost to the end of the micro adjustment and the other has room, it’s a pretty big gap, if you were doing this in person, you’d understand. My thought, with the knife being 90…[Read more]

The biggest thing, I want to be confident that the WE can do the knifes I enjoy without modifying or adding a whole lot to it. That’s the biggest key for me. I’ll pay the premium if it’s worth it. I appreciate your input and help.

Which thinking about that big 3.7 inch thick knife, that could be a good training knife.

I did use my kitchen knife to start which I could take that for another round. Funny thing is, all my knives are difficult except for the kitchen knife. I have the benchmade 808 and 818, mini grip and full size grip sheepsfoot, then the leek which is worse. There is no easy, it goes from training wheels to ferrari.

Coming from the KME, where there are no gaps in the clamp jaws and it’s a full rubber insert, I guess it’s hard for me to go from, no offense, an easier clamping system to a finicky clamping system that might need add on’s. Don’t get me wrong, I wouldn’t have dropped over a grand to make this work but I expected a lot. Here’s what I’m used to…[Read more]

oh ya, I figured you can use the AAG with pins (keeping track of top or bottom). I’ve already learned how to sharpen the jaws…

Honestly, the benchmade mini grip 3″ is my smallest and one of my preferred. Everything else is 3.5 or larger. So, blades like the kershaw leek that I use for practice, I honestly don’t care about sharpening. I want to be able to use this (WE) without all sorts of odds and ends adapters or I’d rather just stick with the KME which works without all…[Read more]

Almost as far as I can go. I do see the four teeth go the length of the jaw, gives me a little better idea of how to place the knife. No offense, but placing the knife on the guide pins is a bad recommendation. I think that would only fit certain knives. It’s almost an art on it’s own how to place the blade properly. I can see if this works where…[Read more]

I have been using painters tape, it’s plain right now just for illustration. If I don’t get frustrated and pack it up, then I’ll pick up some chamois tomorrow.

I hope your saying the first picture looks good not the second one, where you can see the front of the knife is way too low and makes sense that I was sharpening the jaw, not the blade.

Basically, I need to throw the book out the window. Don’t seat the knife on the pins, I need to make sure the four teeth in the jaw clamp onto the knife.

I moved it back to avoid the hole and the teeth on the back of the knife have very little real estate to grab a hold of. So I think the first picture, not the second should work. I’ve yet to test it.

the above picture to me was better than the way I was clamping it, here’s how far off I was before:

I did see from a previous post from MarcH “For me the micro-adjustment screws rarely are in the same position when set to an equal angle, and verified with an angle cube”

Thanks to all, a few questions…

As far as hitting the jaws, I’ll check how far back I have the blade. It seems like with…[Read more]

Using the angle cube. I can visually see it cants to one side and it’s definitely, brand new, the 130. On the left side, the micro adjustment screw threads are showing and on the right side, the micro adjustments screws are counter sunk. So, When the angle cube tells me both side are 22 degrees, the right side bevel is larger than the left.

I…[Read more]

WE 130, I’ve seen searching through previous posts with no resolve. I’ve found when I screw up the knife with the WE, I put it back on the KME it fix it is the only resolve I’ve had so far. Kind of lost really. The fact that I can’t sharpen a mini griptillian at 22 degrees without hitting the jaw on the top posts is kind of disheartening.