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ColbyL,

Did you purchase your “new” WE130 directly from Wicked Edge?

Could you post a photo or two of your setup showing us an end bracket with the ball end and guide rod in place on the square bar.  Also a photo showing any one of your sharpening stones would be helpful.

It’s hard to answer in black and white, do this, then do that, terms.  Just because someone says or writes something is better,, it may not be best for you. Knowing what to use and what to do next for a given circumstance is experience based.  What I like to call “the art of sharpening”.  Until you reach the point in your sharpening experiences to…[Read more]

Welcome to the Wicked Edge Forum.

I recommend you look first to the “Knowledge Base” for your answers.  There’s a tremendous amount of good helpful information available there.

Welcome to the Wicked Edge Forum Mat.

First, it can take about 10 knives sharpened with each new stone til they’re broken in and begin to yield their best results.  The finer grits will break in sooner with less use.

Ask any experienced W.E. user which grit should I buy next and the answer is more, because eventually you’ll end up with all of…[Read more]

Readheads, just to be clear, Clay and W.E. are always working on and striving to advance and improve the current designs and sharpener models.  He is not currently, actively working to design a new vise and jawset to overcome a holding problem being experienced by W.E. users.  The vice and jawset introduced some years back on this current model G…[Read more]

http://images.app.goo.gl/6zYuAxppKyQg9Dk77

Clay I can say based on the shared experience from the W.E. user to which I gifted my first original Gen 3 vise, the first version released.  That vise version without the tensioner accessory or the split jaws, does not hold a clamped knife as tightly and securely as this current version gen 3 vise does with the split jaw set.  That is, the c…

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Clay this is the original thin steel alignment guide, that came with the very first W.E. I started with years ago…a Pro Pack 2 with the Standard Vice WE120 Setup.

This 0.5mm, thin parallel sided strip of steel, clamps and holds tight enough with the early design jaw set, (with the tensioner set to the lightest setting), that I’m able to lift…[Read more]

The pads I circled in red:

Yes and no split down the center. To enhance it’s ability to flex.

Here’s another photo from a different forum member:

Here is the maintenance PDF that clearly shows a jaw set:

https://knife.wickededgeusa.com/app/uploads/2020/10/WEClampCleaning-1-1.pdf

Precept’s vise jaws with BOSS are shown in this photo, lower left.

Well said…I share “airscapes” observations and user’s experiences.

The narrow tip pads on the Gen 3 vise jaws allow them to clamp knives of a variety of shapes, tapers and profiles by just a small portion of the steel.  This small foot print allows the jaws to tightly and securely grasp tapered shapes without gaps.  It also greatly limits the a…[Read more]

Precept, thank you for taking the time to produce the 2nd video.  I can tell you from looking at your WE130 that your’s is the most recent version released with all the newest internal part upgrades.  The vise jaws have not had a design change since first introduced.  I don’t know what I can share with you to be helpful.  All I can say is I per…[Read more]

At the end of the video (1:16 secs) while you’re wiggling the LAA in the vise jaws I noticed the lever arm is not all the way locked over, flat and horizontal.  My lever arms are positioned flat and horizontal when the vise jaws are locked tight.

Precept, Read my last post, I edited it.

The vise should clamp tight and require some applied force to lock it over.  Even with the minimum tensioner setting and empty jaws.

It’s possible you don’t have the full compliment of Belleville washers (8) in your vise.  You’d need to disassemble the vise to determine this.

This post will help you w…[Read more]

Your vise and LAA appear to be fine...read my two posts above.  

The knife is clamped by the two flat pads on the far ends of jaws.  I always use a small patch of the real leather chamois cloth, dry.  You need to find the balance between the proper knife position and the applied tension setting to clamp a knife securely.   It does take some pract…[Read more]

Your low angle adapter,  (LAA), appears fine.  The LAA has limited usefulness and doesn’t work with every knife.  It’s generally used for small, thin bladed knives.

The LAA utilizes the “standard vise” design.  By the nature and the physics of this adapter’s design, with one side fixed and stationary and the other side floating and movable, it…[Read more]

The forum was just off-line for a scheduled/announced server maintenance.   I was expecting we would get interrupted.

I’m asking for photos that allow me to see the jaw tips and inside faces.  Top straight down with vise jaws open and an angled down view like at 45º .   Similar photos from the different perspectives would be helpf…[Read more]

Please post additional photos of vise jaws from several different angles including top down.