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MarcH, sometimes I let myself fall into the minutiae of the process as I can find it relaxing and fulfilling. But if I’m doing some older daily use kitchen knives I let it slide and ‘good enough’ will do. Thanks for all your details and information, I appreciate your clarity and persistence.

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If I slide a stone onto the rod it isn’t a ‘Perfect’ fit, but rather the hole is ever so slightly larger than the rod. That slight enlargement seems to give it some back and forth. Sorry for the poor photos, but you can see the small gap depending on how I apply pressure to the stone – it has some play on the rod. Is that not normal? I had…[Read more]

Thanks for this. I just checked and mine does keep zero.

While we are off on somewhat of a tangent here, I did want to pick your brain on this. I noticed something on my 3rd knife sharpened on my 130 (and the first to go over 1000 diamond stone) with my new ceramic stones. I have a tiny usb optical microscope (not USB) and noticed at the higher grits that there were two distinct patterns, bottom of…[Read more]

Would you be able to direct me to this math? I dig the details.

Nice to know I’m on the right track as I’ve narrowed it down to pretty much these steps. However the cube I use powers off after 1 minute or so and loses its zero. When I see high end Mitutoyo digital protractors with less advertised accuracy than the DXL360 I wonder about it.