sksharp

I see from your photo your working with a WE100, not a WE120. Both models the WE100 & WE120 utilize the same “standard” style vise. The standard vise is a two-piece vise with the left side fixed while the right side floats and is attached to the fixed side by the upper screw screw. The upper screw tightens or closes the vise on the knife. Then the…[Read more]

The first visual aide I used was a lighted jewelers loupe. Like you, I quit using it when I realized just how close my face was to the sharpened knife edge. Now I use this usb handheld scope with a laptop:

I work start to finish at the same set…[Read more]

Looks pretty good. I’d work the edge a little more. It looks like there’s gaps in the burr or small edge chips that should easily be removed with a little more effort.  If the chips are small and numerous across the edge I’d work at it until most of the shallower ones are sharpened out. If there’s only a few larger or deep chips across the entire…[Read more]

To private message click the userame anywhere it is showing in blue color in any boxes of the thread. This will direct you to the W.E. messaging feature. Then click “private message” at the top menu. At the upper right corner of the opening Forum page there is a round white number “0”. This will become blue and the number will change to reflect…[Read more]

The WE120 is your tool. Use it how you may. For situations with very wide angles I replaced the pointed thumb screws with flat ended nylon thumb screws (10-32). These nylon thumb screws will lock the mini “L” brackets in position simply compressing against the flat sides of the square bar. If you message me with your email address and mailing…[Read more]

Welcome to the W.E. Forum Ribstabsheart.

It sounds as though you’re putting in the effort and you have a good understanding of what you’re doing. You included a lot in your post. I’ll try to break it down to address each issue.

The W.E. is basically a bench vise that clamps and holds knives vertically allowing us to move the sharpening stone…[Read more]

I mounted my new WE60 on the base from my WE120.

The forum is not dead, it’s just something you find inconvenient to use on your small format devices.  That doesn’t reflect on our forum, it’s function, quality or contributions by members.  I agree that this older forum format lends itself to devices that are more typing friendly.  More so, a forum is for those who don’t mind writing a full se…[Read more]

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The WE60 is not upgradeable:

WE60 was released yesterday. Now listed on the W.E. website $275.

Clay has said to look for the release of the other models this fall, possibly Nov.

Here’s another pre-release blog for the WE60 model. This one was published by the Australian Wicked Edge Dealer, Zanvak:

https://zanvak.com.au/blogs/all-blogs/wicked-edge-go-we60-series-portable-knife-sharpener

Tony, you might consider joining the W.E. FaceBook Group to post this want-to-sell there also. There are always interested buyers on the FB group. I have posted the link for you here:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/2039273959688449/?ref=share

Tom_G,

I believe tcmeyer, airscapes and me are putting to practice a method based on graphite’s illustrated technique. For me, at first the clamping positions were intuitive. Like tcmeyer, I just looked at the knife’s shape and clamped it how it looked like it would work well. Later it became experienced based. Now I can look at a blade shape and…[Read more]

Tom_G

I see the white outline of a chef’s knife on a black backround.  Is there an explanation or question along with the image?

If the image file is on your device, down at the bottom left of the page you can click “Select file” in the greyed out box. That will allow you to select the file from your device. After added the file at the bottom, you can click on insert in post to include the photo in your post.