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Just getting back from an elk hunting trip. I used the HIC mule to cape and bone out some, but not all, of my bull. Had it shaving sharp off resin bonded diamond stones (up to 6k JIS) before stropping it. Overall it did well, still scrape shaves at the front 1/3 of the blade which would've seen the ...

I think it would be interesting to see grain size and what’s happening to the grains along the edge. Usually to see grain boundaries you need to etch a material fist,
But I’m not sure what that would be done with for this material.

I did sharpen on mule with the diamond film belt this weekend with ...

I too would like a broken piece for SEM if anyone has any to spare. It doesn't need to be as small as Hewn's.

Hewn, what model do you have?


We have a phenom, It can take samples larger than that but that’s the size of the “sticky tiles” we have to mount samples on.

I do have a 20 micron ...

Did you reprofile? The angle seems to be quite high, though i did not measure it.
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I set set the angle to 17 DPS on the tormek. It was fairly close to what was on from the factory, perhaps a bit shallower. I did remove the micro bevel at the edge which was present from the factory.

I'm open to whatever people (users, spyderco, etc) would find beneficial. If people wanted to look at the edge/apex after use on different abrasives and grits it's something I could certainly do. My company is a nano materials manufacturer so I'm usually dorking around on the SEM a few days a week ...

I’ll offer up that if anyone has a “piece” of one that’s around 1 cm2 I’d be willing to image the edge under our SEM at my company:

Had 2 arrive last week.

Sharpening on resin bonded diamond with one of them, and I’ve not been able to work up a shaving edge. I suspect that’s me more than the material.

The second I took to the tormek with a 600 grit cbn wheel and completely reworked the bevel at 17 dps, which was close to what ...

I picked up 2 on the latest email drop.

One I have free hand sharpened on resin bonded diamond, and tried stropping on various diamond compounds on leather or mdf. It's workably sharp but will not shave. I find I am more variable in my free hand angle with this material so I have a bit of a convex ...