tcmeyer

Hi Marc:

How do the micro-adjusters work??  What are the internals?

I used the VSTAs quite a bit and with good success when I was using custom stones which varied in thickness by more than 0.010 – 0.015 of an inch.  They take only a few seconds to make an adjustment, as compared to using an angle cube with each grit change.  Like Mark says, they never really caught on and users simply found it easier to either u…[Read more]

I had to look at a few of the new product photos to see what you meant.  The new version has only one pair of holes for the height position key.

I don’t know how different the hole height position is from the previous version, so can’t say for sure, but my experience is that there’s only a small change from one position to another, whether you…[Read more]

Which stroke direction works for each user is a subjective thing.  For whatever reason, one might work better for you than others and that’s fine. Clay did some tests awhile back and found that under higher magnifications, edge leading strokes seemed to leaved a less jagged apex.  I had argued this point for several years as I had experienced s…[Read more]

Seems to me that 5/32″ is less than 1/4″ (8/32″).  It ought to fit in the 1/4″ jaws.  In fact it ought to fit in the standard jaws.  Are we miscommunicating or is this another case of me being too old?  Seems to happen a lot lately.  Maybe you meant 5/16″?

I bought a WorkSharp 3000 for sharpening plane blades, thinking that it would also speed up the process of sharpening ceramic knives as well.  Haven’t tried it yet, but the principle of higher grits and low pressure makes a lot of sense.  Thanks guys, for reminding me of a lesson learned five years ago.  I’ll have to give it a try.

I’ve been Wicked Edging for about 12 years and I have both the Pro with the Gen 3 vise as well as an older setup with the Gen 1 vise and I’ve found solutions for every knife I’ve been asked to sharpen, from itty-bitty little pen knives to 12″ jerky knives to an Alaskan Ulu.  Some have required the assemblage of some gadgetry, but I’ve never…[Read more]

Here’s how I do it, using RAM mount gadgets:

I replied to Rob’s post, but apparently the OP was moved to a different Forum topic and my reply was lost in the transfer.  Just in case, I’ll copy it here:

Using strops is certainly another way to do it and would probably do it a lot faster once you work out the progression.  I’ve drifted away from strops because of their tendency to get c…[Read more]

Using strops is certainly another way to do it and would probably do it a lot faster once you work out the progression.  I’ve drifted away from strops because of their tendency to get cross-contaminated.  Once a strop  is contaminated, there’s almost no way to return it to its prior condition.  Diamond stones  and films can usually be cleaned to r…[Read more]

If I understand your question correctly, I believe that flipping the horizontal knife holder rotates the vise on the same plane (or axis) as the rod centerline, so there should be no change in the relationship between the shape of the edge and the rod’s rotational axis.  It will be reversed but not otherwise altered.

As a side note, I see two…[Read more]

Front to back slippage is usually due to a distal blade taper, but if Buck knives (which seldom have significant tapers to them) are problematic, then it might be something else.  As Robert suggests, photos or a short video would be more helpful.

To expand on the taper problem as it relates to the LAA, the adapter is quite a bit wider than the…[Read more]

Bingo!  I now remember seeing that diagram when I ordered it, but it had been a while when I finally got around to starting it up and there was nothing like it in the instructions.  Thanks for the help, guys!

Yup, that’s why I assumed it would work with my PC.  Even in the instructions (which are printed so small I needed the microscope to read it) it implies that it should work with Windows XP, 7, 8, 10 and 11, which to me means PC compatible.  Maybe the caveat is that it’s WiFi with smart phone and USB with PCs.  I don’t think it says specifically th…[Read more]

Well that explains it!

Hmm…  I can mirror my smart phone to my smart TVs, so I wonder if…  No, probably not, but maybe I can find a cheap smart TV about 31″ to replace the monitor…

Thanks, guys!

Thanks for the quick reply, Richard.  I’ve got about ten other WiFi or LAN devices which are showing up on the device and network lists, but not the camera.  I recently switched over to a new hughesnet modem/router and it’s not letting me get direct access to the WiFi data at the modem.   I’ll call Hughesnet this afternoon to see if I can get a p…[Read more]

It only takes a very few strokes with an 800-grit stone to flatten an edge.  I think using a regular file is a bad idea.

Ribstabsheart:  To save time and excessive stone wear, I file the edge flat, down to the bottom of the deepest defect, using one of the finer diamond stones – like the 800 grit.  How long you need to work and edge is directly related to the amount of steel you have to remove and this process very quickly removes a lot of that steel.  Having do…[Read more]

My method is a form of “finding the sweet spot” except that I don’t try to match any existing bevel – which is what the sweet spot is originally intended for.  I pick a mounting position which matches the sweep of the stone to the belly of the knife.  Another way of looking at it is to imagine a line forming the radius of the edge’s belly and p…[Read more]