tcmeyer

Sharpening carbide teeth on saw blades is pretty much a powered grinder proposition.  Harbor Freight makes a pretty simple one @ $54.99,  With their 20% coupons, it’s only $44.  You can see it here on Youtube. I see a number of other methods and jigs there, too, including with a diamond wheel on a table saw.   The blades is held flat on the table…[Read more]

Sorry guys,  on re-reading my post at the top of this page (8/07/2019 at 3:35AM) I see that I failed to insert a photo which is referred to in the post.  I’ve edited that post and it now contains that photo.

The WE adpater clamps on the blade and the Tormek clamps on the handle.  My comment was referring to modifying the WE scissor adapter to reach the spec angle for the scissors, but you also may need to modify to handle the curved blades.  If making these mods is not reasonable, would the Tormek adapter hold the scissors’ handle steady enough to p…[Read more]

Part of the motivation to sharpen knives to an elevated standard lies in the desire to make a $40 knife cut like a $300 knife.  Most home cooks, for instance, have never had an opportunity to use a high-end kitchen knife – an experience that would change their perspective for a long time to come.  The way a kitchen knife cuts is the primary key f…[Read more]

I don’t see the curved edges as the barrier to sharpening this scissors on a WE.  The main issue for me would be “adapting the adapter” for the high angle desired.  Would the Tormek adapter be rigid enough?

Assuming one wanted to proceed, would the anticipated income offset the expected costs of developing and fabricating a workable adapter?

Yup, they look high-dollar.  I wonder if they can be taken apart like the one in your earlier photo.

Checked a couple web sites and they go from $80 to $150 for the Five-Star curved scissors.

I would think that mounting the scissors in a Tormek small knife adapter would allow for almost any angle to be sharpened.  Not as solidly mounted as with the regular adapter, but workable.

I agree with the idea of kitchen knives only needing 800 grit, but I can’t help myself.  The 1000s, 2200s and 3000s are calling to me.  they’re calling … and… I … can’t … resist.  Oh, poop, there I did it again.  Well, at least it’s gonna be a sharp knife.

Funnin’ aside, I really do do this every time.  I did four kitchen knives toda…[Read more]

What do you push down into the threaded part?  Grease?  I’m going to have to check my joints, as I never noticed a hole there before.  I’m not sure how you do it, but a hole would let me pack grease down on the threaded hole.  Then screwing a rod down into it should force grease down into the joint.  I’m guessing that the joint would last long…[Read more]

Interesting that you bring this up.  The photo above was taken a while back with my Celestron 5MP, called their HandheldDigital Microscope Pro in the instructions manual.  This past year I had been using the Carson eFlex because I thought it had a little bit better depth of field, but I switched back to the Celestron earlier this week.  It se…[Read more]

I do the same, and I’ve found I don’t need to check again, once I’ve set the angle, unless something seems wrong.  I have learned that my 1000/1500 stones need to be adjusted down by 0.2 degrees on one side.  Can’t imagine what might be causing it.  I mounted all my stones in one sitting, using the same batch of tape.  That’s about 6/10ths of a t…[Read more]

Aah!  You threw out the mandolin, not the Spyderco.  Whew!

Airscapes:  That grind actually looks perfect for that Damascus pattern.  The tip looks like the knife I used to throw at the basement door when I was 14.  Occasionally, I’d miss the door, or the knife would hit the concrete floor on its tip.  Now, if I caught a kid doing that, I’d pr…[Read more]

I don’t remember what if any mod I made to the adjuster, but I don’t use a tool to change belts.  I pinch the adjustment bracket, with my thumb at the front-facing part of the frame and the back of the adjuster,  This moves the rear pulley forward, letting me slip the belt over the top pulley.

Ed:  I used stainless mainly because all the prior mods were SS and it just looked better.

I’m sure WE could make the same stuff for a lot less cost and less time for sure.  They’ve obviously got at least one good machine job shop at their beck and call.

I just made a new pair of ball joint/adjustment screws to replace one that got some grit i…[Read more]

Brewbear:  LOL!!  Thanks for the encouragement!

Hope you weren’t doing 4 PaD for too long.  I did 2 PaD for 18 years and was scared for years that I’d pay for it.  Then my BF croaked in 2011, watching TV at home on a Saturday night.  I had bitched at him for two years to seek medical help for his balance difficulties.  He didn’t because he wante…[Read more]

Sorry guys, but the pic of the chipped edge was not the right one, just had a very similar filename.  The actual chipping I was referring to was this one:

Keep in mind that at the time, I was sharpening my Delica and was up to 600 grit with an apexed edge and no chips.  After doing the routine number of strokes with 800 grit, I was shocked to s…[Read more]

Marc:  How is that tension indicator on the near side of the vise?  Is that a new feature from WE??  Kinda looks like the vise stack isn’t bolted together.

Mike?  That’s a cool looking lamp!

Ed??  Is it yours?   BTW, thanks for putting these mods out there.  It helps my ego late at night.

I’m sure that diamond stones (actually plates) are shipped “as plated” because any “breaking-in process” would leave the plates looking used.  Virtually all customers expect to see pristine plates when they receive them.  Breaking-in a set of stones can be a relatively quick process if you know what you’re doing.

First, please understand that t…[Read more]

I have a problem with a tip tonight too, but it’s the tip of my left middle finger which I sliced off while preparing dinner tonight.  So my typing is even slower than normal.  I’m down from four fingers to three.  Wouldn’t you know it?  Not from a knife, but on a new mandolin slicing carrots.  I didn’t know that the cheap mandolin’s plate was…[Read more]

The only Spyderco blades I’ve done are my Delica 4 and my Stretch.  Both are in ZDP189, which is admittedly somewhat harder than S110V, so I don’t know how applicable my experience is, but for what it’s worth, I found that when sharpened to 17 dps, they had a tendency to chip.  This greatly increased the effort to resharpen, not to mention the a…[Read more]