Roman Suarez
@romansuarez
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Thanks so much for your help. It seems like my next best option is to try the rubber washer idea. Maybe I’m just not realizing that I’m allowing that to happen. As far as the clamp, I used a small piece of blue painters tape. Do you recommend doing that?
What size washers or Orings do you use for the rods?
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Can you provide pics? I think I had the same issue with dragging lines on the blade really far down the below the Bevel. I talked to Kyle and he said to be careful not to miss the bevel and let the stones hit the blade which makes sense but he also said this,
“when using your coarse stones, use a slightly wider angle than what you’re trying to set your edge to. For instance, if you want a 20 degree bevel, use your 100 and 200 grit stones at 21 degrees, and then change your angle to 20 and do the last bit of profiling with the 400 grit stone. What’s happening is the large diamonds on the surface are scratching below the bevel, and you finer stones aren’t reaching those low points. As you continue to use your sharpener your stones will break in and you’ll notice this is less of an issue on every knife.”
The Spyderco is the first knife I sharpened with the WE130. You can see where I let the stones drag without even realizing it would be a problem.. when I took the blade out of the clamp I was bummed but all I could do was laugh at that point.
Each knife I’ve done has come out better and better and with either less to no scratches.. Even when I’m really careful, I still end up with out about one or two (benchmade)
