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The “Knowledge Base” button is in the banner at the very top of the browser screen on my smartphone.

Once again, Kenneth, I will suggest you look to the Wicked Edge “Knowledge Base” for answers to these simple questions.  Here’s one link:

https://support.wickededgeusa.com/portal/en/kb/articles/sharpening-grit-progression-for-all-wicked-edge-abrasives

No disrespect to Kyle.  He’s providing exactly the service his customers are asking and paying for.

There’s fast, there’s good and there’s cheap…there’s not all three:

http://www.pyragraph.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/GOOD-FAST-CHEAP.jpg

There can be different goals when sharpening for a business.  This needs to be decided and defined up front.

Are you offering your sharpening services simply to produce a sharpened knife for utility sake, as Kyle has described he’s doing.

Or, are your sharpening services like those of Josh of Razor Edge Knives.

Or both? This will describe the…[Read more]

Here is what I wrote earlier in this same thread to answer Kenneth’s same question:

For me the finest grit stone that’ll get the reprofile job is often only the 400 grit. Sometimes I’ll need to go all the way down to the 100 grit.  I have owned the 50/80 grit pair for a year or two now and needed to use them twice.

Simple Green is not recommended.  This cleaner has been reported by W.E. users to dissolve and loosen the adhesive used to attach the sharpening stones to the plastic paddles.

Here’s what’s recommended: https://support.wickededgeusa.com/portal/en/kb/articles/how-to-clean-your-diamond-stones

To get a response from Wicked Edge I suggest you submit a service ticket.  W.E. doesn’t necessarily keep up with this forum.

It takes a good amount of practice to figure out how to use the W.E. well.  Maybe a good 10 knives or more.  It’s not hard to use the Gen 3 Pro, but it’s not simple either.  It also takes 8 or 10 knives worth of sharpening to just begin to get your sharpening stones broken in to where they’ll begin to yield good consistent results.

It’s su…[Read more]

https://support.wickededgeusa.com/portal/en/kb/articles/knife-sharpening-settings-submitted-by-customers

This is the only list Wicked Edge can provide.  The order of the knives listed may not be alphabetical in every situation.

Possibly you could post a photo of this situation you are describing or maybe explain what you mean by choke up in some other works.

First thing you need to do is forget about the angle numbered demarcations on the blue semi-circular plate.  All that matters is that the angle you want, to be the angle reading you get with your digital cube.   …[Read more]

No.  Lapping films are just an ultrafine diamond sharpening stone.  It’s best to use them in an edge following stroke, that is up and off the knife edge.  This is the the same stroke used with the strops.

The Gen 3 Pro comes standard with 8″ guide rods.  You may want a longer optional guide rod. ( at least 12″).

You’ll certainly need these for when you’re able to purchase the low angle adapter

Rodger, I use edge-leading strokes with every knife I sharpen.  Please exercise care with edge leading strokes.  It’s very easy to catch a dangling finger with the exposed sharpened knife edge as you bring the stones down and into the knife edge.

I use safety shields made by “airscapes”.  They place a physical barrier between my finger tips an…[Read more]

Check out this Forum link for stone storage Rack-Its: https://knife.wickededgeusa.com/forums/topic/custom-accessories-list-made-by-forum-members/

Welcome to the Wicked Edge Forum Scott.  The Wicked Edge is a precision sharpening system….hence WEPS.  It is not a quick sharpening system, or a simple system.  It’s not designed with the “lazy man” knife sharpener in mind.

Sounds like you’d be better served to use a different knife sharpening system like maybe the Spyderco Triangle Sh…[Read more]

Here is the link to the Knowledge Base for stropping instructions.  It’s worthwhile reading for new users.

All of those six knives top to bottom except for the third knife down appear to be serrated edged knives.  I don’t like to sharpen serrated knives since it requires totally removing the serrations.  I believe they were made originally as serrated knives for a reason.  Maybe that steel just works better with serrations.

The dimples on the first an…[Read more]

Google “Knife Grinds”.  There are quite a few different grinds.  I have determined what I’m working with, when I didn’t know, by comparing the knife with those images I found from Google.  If I can identify a brand and knife model, I will google the knife to read what I can learn about it.  It’s up to you to put in the leg work to take your hob…[Read more]

The strop cover will work with the diamond stones and ceramics as they have similar dimensions.   “airscapes” does make a deeper cover to be used with the thicker whetstones some of us use.

I cannot speak for how tight or how loose the fit may be with the Gen 3 Pro shelved base when 3 pairs of stones with covers are stored.   My Gen 3 Pro mod…[Read more]

I forgot to mention, W.E. has offer an additional shelf for your Gen 3 Pro model. (click this blue link)