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Finished another Hunter knife and this morning I used the WEPS to put a mirrored edge on it that will whittle hair.

I love using this sharpener to establish an edge on a new knife.

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Mark76 wrote:

Great mirror edge. Which stones/lapping films/strops/stropping compounds did you use?

Thanks Mark!

I’ve got all the diamond stones from 50 to 1500 but so far I have yet to use the 50/80 and I very seldom use the 100/200. These knives I started with the 400 until I raised a burr, and then worked up to the 1500 grit, followed by the 1.4/0.6 ceramics, then the balsa strops with the 5/3.5 pastes, and finally a couple of very light passes with the leather strops with 1/0.5 pastes.

DeeR wrote:

…  I’d love to stop by your shop some Saturday afternoon and see your knives and setup. Some beautiful work you’ve got there. I’m also interested in Mark76 quetion about the stone progression you used.

Thanks Dee! You’re more than welcome to stop by and talk knives. Let me know when ya want to come up and I’ll get ya my contact info.

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cbwx34 wrote:

The folding knife is a Harbor Freight pocket knife. Nice work!!

I knew it was a cheapy … best looking edge a Harbor Freight knife ever had … LOL!

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Marc H wrote:

Shaner, what’s the folding knife in the top picture? Did you make that one? Is it double edged?

Hi Marc, I didn’t make that one. I’m not sure who did, there are no marks on it anywhere. Just a cheapy that I practice on. The raised clip is not sharpened.

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Hogdog wrote:

Sweet blade. Did not receive email, please resend… Thanks!

Resent

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Happy 4th of July

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Hogdog wrote:

I’m in Eden and will be traveling through Brigham city tomorrow, but I’m also in that area frequently. Please email me you contact/location info and I’ll look you up. Email: curtshellee@gmail.com Thanks

I sent ya an email

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Hogdog you can see pics of some of my knives in my album here

I live up near Brigham City, what area are you from? If you are close, you are more than welcome to stop by. I don’t have to go back to work until Wed so I’ll be out in the shop working on knives until then, or I am usually always out in the shop on weekends.

I finished the sheath for the Hunter and just listed it on my facebook page …

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Thanks guys, I appreciate the comments!

Mark76 wrote:

Shane, you refer to a pbase account on the Internet that should contain more photographs, but I get an error when I click on one of those links.

Sorry Mark I haven’t had a pbase account for about 15 years. I forgot that link was in one of the galleries on my website, I just removed it. I haven’t done any serious nature photography for years so I decided to close the pbase account.

I’ve really been slacking in keeping my website up to date lately. I mostly just use it now for a place to store a few pics for the forums. I post most of my knife pics along with WIP photos in my facebook group Blind Dog Blades

 

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Thanks guys!

MarcH I mostly stick with the high carbon steels. This one is made with W2 tool steel, which is one of my favorite steels to work with. It’s very durable and holds a great edge.

Another with W2…

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I just finished making a small Hunter knife and used the WEPS to put a wicked edge on it.

I ground the final primary bevel to a thickness of .008 at the edge and then used the WEPS to make the secondary bevel at 20 dps. I was impressed how fast I was able to get a scary sharp edge put on it and maintain a nice straight even bevel.

Loving my wicked edge 

wickededge wrote:

Hey Shaner – welcome! Organic is right in that we’ll definitely replace the Allen keys for you. Just give us a call: 877-616-9911 or email: support@wickededgeusa.com and we’ll take care of it.

@wickededge I sent an email to support about the allen key back on the 16th but never heard back from them. I let them know that I had just placed an order and they could throw the key in with the stuff I ordered to save on shipping costs. I know Blade was going on so figured ya all were probably swamped getting ready for it.

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Mark76 wrote:

Hi Shiner, welcome to the forum! Great, you like your WEPS. Let me say that the ceramic stones get better with use, but the 1500 diamonds are great. Very nice paddle holder, by the way. I do use the strop paste, by the way (and wrote a couple of blog posts about them: https://moleculepolishing.wordpress.com/category/stropping/). I sometimes add 1 micron or 0.5 micron spray to the WE diamond paste.

Mark I will check out your blog posts this weekend when I have a little free time. Thanks for the link and looking forward to reading what ya wrote.

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Thanks for the help guys!

Thanks for the comments on the paddle rack as well. Pretty simple to make … use a solid carbide bit to drill holes in the granite, add some dowels and you’re done.  I think I will also add some holes along the front edge for the pastes to stand up in too. I have room to add 4 more paddles but I suspect I will be running out of room soon and will need to build another one.

wickededge wrote:

Hey Shaner – welcome! Organic is right in that we’ll definitely replace the Allen keys for you. Just give us a call: 877-616-9911 or email: support@wickededgeusa.com and we’ll take care of it. It looks like you’re already well on your way to good results and you’re right that your results will continue to improve as your stones break in.

Thanks Clay (I assume this is Clay but I could be wrong). Like I said above, the key is not a real big deal but since you’re offering I may take ya up on it.
Love the WEPS you’ve designed and it looks like the customer service is great as well!

Thanks,

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tcmeyer thanks for taking the time to reply. The small allen key stripped when mounting the vise to the granite base and I was applying very little pressure when it stripped. In fact the vise was still loose enough to slide around on the base. I had to snug it up with a regular allen key, so the key was probably bad to begin with.

Thanks for the info on the strop paste. If you don’t use them anymore, what do you use instead? The lapping films? I’m going to have to get some of those and try them out.

Thanks again,

Shane

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