Tommie

I have and still prefer to use the older larger mini “L” brackets with the screw thread locking system like you have.  I have substituted the metal black knobbed locking screws with nylon knurled knob thumb screws.  I use two of these nylon screws on each side, opposing one another, one threaded into the front facing side hole and another one in t…[Read more]

Todd, I think you should consider upgrading your “standard” vice you now use with the WE130-Gen 3 Vice for $230. Since you already have compatible rod arms and a compatible mounting platform, with loosening a couple screws you can have your setup with the newest Gen 3 Vice System offered.  It’s the same vice utilized in the Gen 3 Pro model.   …[Read more]

Got to love Amazon Prime if you buy enough stuff to make it worthwhile, then it’s worth the price of admission.  Especially because it includes the streaming movies, music and books.

Michael are you into highly polished bevels?  If so maybe additional glass or aluminum platens and more lapping films to fill down the progression, (3µ, 1.5µ and 1µ).  You could add some more finer grit strops to fill down that progression, (2µ, 1µ, and 0.5µ).

You didn’t mention if you use a lighted magnified visual aid to see better what you’re…[Read more]

Please post how it holds up.  I’m curios how that narrow bevel will perform and stand up.  VG10 is respectably hard SS, but that’s pretty narrow for a practical use knife.
You get an “A” for execution.  That’s not easy to put that narrow a bevel on a large knife with the LAA!

Anton, I stand corrected. Wicked Edge longer guide rods are comptible with the WE GO.  There is not a riser block offered.  You’d have to make your own modification.

Travis, just curious, was 11º per side matching the factory bevels?  Or did you just choose to set the edge the the narrow?

Ditto the slippery tape… I also adopted and have applied the teflon slippery tape to my USB scope’s lens shroud based on Tom’s (tcmeyer) recommendation, learned years ago, reading on this Forum.

Welcome to the Wicked Edge Forum Aaron.  There are a lot of good and inexpensive USB Microscopes available these days.  You might shop these on Amazon.  Depending on the compatible device you’ll use it with may determine your selection.  For an inexpensive, simple to use model that’s compatible with windows and Android I like this Plugable Mod…[Read more]

Here’s a new model Rack-It I was commissioned to design and build for forum member N Keil 2005.

I call it the Rigid Hybrid Rack-It.  You can use it hanging on the wall and on the bench top, too.  No moving parts or folding legs.  It incorporates a removable plastic storage box to hold your various regularly used sharpening tools.  It has bui…[Read more]

You finally stated in clear and concise words what I asked you in the long involved post last night.  I never stated you were doing some wrong or your observations were wrong.  I was just asking you, trying to understand where in the grit progression you saw the difference(s).   That it’s only the fine grit;1000 grit!   If it’s only the last,…[Read more]

Does the remaining marker, down low, show 200 grit isn’t scratching everywhere from apex to shoulder?

Question: did you hold the stone(s), each and every one, flat against the square and inspect for flatness or dishing?

So far so good!  Are these last pictures 100 grit?

In the photos you posted, your remaining marker on the bevels indicates your not reaching the apex always.  That picture clearly illustrates the clamping lean you see.

The way it is now you’re not sure it is repeatable.  If you remove the knife, the LAA and the material between the knife and jaws.  The next time it may not come together the sa…[Read more]

If the knife is off center that explains the different is the bevel heights seen with the marker when both are set at 15º.  It won’t give you uneven bevels.  Un even bevels are when a centered knife is sharpened with two different angles for each side.

Your 15º angle is contacting the knife at two different height positions on the bevel. If you…[Read more]

Thanks for the effort, Drew.  As you said it’s a hard and crude method to employ when dealing with 0.25º<>0.50º which are very tiny differences and especially using the AccuRemote digital cube which isn’t always the quickest meter to settle in and lock, and juggling everything like you did.  Allowing for molding imperfections in the plastic han…[Read more]

Drew when you track down the square, you can use the square to measure the distance to the knife edge form side to side, with the square sitting flat on the base and slid flat up against the vice side, to see if the knife is leaning to one side.

You probably think my detailed questions in my posts above are a P.I.A. to read and figure out what…[Read more]

I’ve read all your posts in this thread, a couple of times and I can’t get a handle on this issue because I don’t read if you experience the same situation  with the other stones as you do with the 800 grit going to the 1000 grit situation.  Do you see the same situation that you encounter between the 800 and the 1000 grit with the other stones u…[Read more]

Answer  a couple last questions. Do you see a consistency between every other stone? The only time you see this is going from 800 to 1000? Does it also happen 800 to 1000 if you swap the stones end for end and side for side?