Tony Cho
@stormeye
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I’d limit the layers. When I was first getting started with W.E. I tried a lot of cominations. Thicker, layered and more compressible materials, including multiple layers of blue painters tape did shift or slide on the layers, (despite the adhesive). One layer seemed more stable and effective then any other method. It is an advantage using the tension adjustable Gen 3 vise, also. It does simplify and improve the clamping process.
Will keep that in mind. Thanks.
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Tony, I think you need to not take the chance with any knife, that any sort of damage, however slight, would really harm the knives appearance. I generally use a small rectangular patch of real leather chamois, dry, between my knives and the vise jaws. (All my vises are Gen 3 vises).
Good point MarcH.
I have initially just sharpened some knives without anything between blade and clamp (as clamp seemed to be rubbery enough at the time). After a while, I started noticing slight “grindy” feeling when clamping the blade and I wasn’t too sure whether it was clamp grinding on the blade itself.
From then on, I had been using a cut out paper towel (folded several times to provide extra buffer) to wrap around the blade. Seemed to be secure enough and have done several sharpening this way. I’ll try swapping over from paper towel to leather chamois for future sharpening as it seems like more secure and permanent solution than cutting out paper towel every time I do sharpening. Thanks for the tip.
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Now I spend dedicated time to just the heel and tip area. I use the microscope to ensure those areas are as refined as the middle of the blade.
This gave me more confidence in just “over-doing” the blade near handle and it has done the trick. I have re-done my Kershaw Natrix-Carbon Fiber this way and its sharp evenly all across the blade.
I think I am going to do some disassembled sharpening for folding knives (at least for the very first re-profiling) as its just going to be so much simpler when doing sweeping motions. I have tried one knife (Benchmade Griptilian 551-1) disassembled and sharpened, and its has gotten very good result. And it gave me an excuse to do full disassembly maintenance.
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