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[uilleann]

Those are my thoughts as well.  My knife has a similar blade but different handle.  I think I will start with 18 dps and see how that looks, sharpens, and holds up.  Then I might redo it at 17 dps then maybe 16.  More than 16 will be taking too much away from the loook of the blade I think.

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Do everthing you are doing but use black magic marker first and make stone adjustments till you get the whole edge.  If that does not work you may have convex’ed the edge.  If that is the case you live with it and run each stone a slightly different angles to cover the convex OR you go back to a courser grit and reflatten the edge.

I have done both.  I usually use a good angle cube but every now and then I have to run the water stones at some tiny different angle adjustments.

 

[uilleann]

My 2 cents…. All of my Kitchen knives are sharpend for sharpness.  I bring them through all of the diamond stones up to 1500 and then maybe a 6 micron diamond tape.  Its a semi-mirror finish but very sharp.  I do no between stone edge inspections and just go from stone to stone.  Takes me about 15-20 minutes.

My pocket folders are a different story.  I want them sharp and I want them pretty.  They get the same diamonds but with inspections and clean up between stones, then the choseras, then a series of diamond films.  Never proceeding if any abnormal scratches are left.  Those take 2-4 hours to do.

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Yes…. its a gen 3 vize upgrade to the pro pack w

[uilleann]

Someone put me on to a place that sells lapping film.  I bought a bunch of of the diamond film 8 1/2 x 11″ (you can get 20 strips off it).  Its about 4 times cheaper but you have to cut your own strips.  Or you can get the non-psa backed sheets that are about 6 times cheaper than WE.  I only used them on one sharpening and they seem to work a bit better than the WE.  The .1 micon did seem to add scratches (or maybe they were there already)… but I experienced the same thing on the .5micron WE diamond film  (again may have nothing to do with the film).  So I do not know how many sharpenings they are good for.   if they do not last more than a few sharpenings then maybe they are not a good deal…. but so far so good.  I can provide the name of the place if you pm me.

[uilleann]

Good explanation, thanks.   But any interest in doing a video of that movement…. or have you seen that technique in other videos?

[uilleann]

Just did another blade and I think I discovered part of my problem.  I do scrubbing up and down moves first along the blade which puts vertical or slightly angled grind lines on the blade.  Then I have been doing the long stropping kind of strokes which take out 95% if the vertical grind and live a lighter 45 degree-ish grind marks from heel to tip.

Here is where I made my discovery.  When i do the stroke movements I have been going mostly down at the heel and then turning to follow the blade after that.  So I was kind of leaving the first vertical grind marks.   Today I made a  slow and deliberated effort to not go down but go more towards the tip than down.  I also would come back and do very light mico- movements of a 1/4 to 1/2 and inch to make sure that I was changing down grinds to 45 degree grinds.

Seemed to work pretty good on todays blade.  The heel was an order of magnitude better on less scratches there.

[uilleann]

Just a follow up.  All my ceramics are flat….. they did have several high spots.   But…. you guys are right.  The ceramics are now behaving like the last stone I lapped with.   So now I have a 1.4 and a .6 micron ceramic stones that behave like 1500 grit.

[uilleann]

Interesting blog article.  So it seems that I have probably change my 1.4 and .6 micron ceramics to 1500 grit ceramics?  And proably wore down my diamonds some.   Oh well.

[uilleann]

Thanks for the info.  I have a hard time believing that lapping the ceramic changes the grit.  Choseras do not change grit if you lap them,  The ceramics are much harder but if you sharpen enough hard steel on the ceramics you are going to remove some ceramic material and I do not believe that action would change the grit of the ceramic.  I guess I do not know about ceramics either.

[uilleann]

Those resources are great.  Thanks.  Downloaded and will read soon.

[uilleann]

I would love to use less stones.  Any suggestions on which to skip?   I would like to try that.

[uilleann]

I guess its the same…. I am going to have to bite the bullet and come up with a way to enlarge the choil. Seems like such a destructive thing to do.  I was seeing if there were other ideas than that.

[uilleann]

I just got mine….. Its the perfect item to store my stones.

 

 

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if you are still making the stone racks,  I would like to get a medium.

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