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Ousanas,

It appears you were the predecessor to jabba359, who has dropped out. Please send the book to me once you have received it and finished it. I will PM my address.

Add me to the list. Jabba359, I'll PM you with my address so you can send it to me when you're done with it.

The cutting board will get slices and cuts in its surface which can harbor bacteria and germs. So while they may be better for your knives, they are worse for you.

Bacteria don't do well in wood. Plastic/nylon can be worse than wood for harboring germs. If you are uncertain about it, you can ...

Finally, I am getting some sharp edges with the SharpMaker. The biggest problem for me has been that the knives I have been working on needed some serious rebeveling.

Therefore, the single most important step for me was to go to Home Depot and buy some 100 grit sandpaper and some emery cloth (in 80 ...

With benchstones you want the biggest you can find and hold comfortably.

My strop is a hunk of 2.5" x 12" 5-6oz leather. Paste on the smooth side.
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By not attaching a hunk of wood I can use the rough side to align edges and remove burrs.


Do you hand-hold the benchstones? I thought one put ...

stones don't have to be expensive.

I have:
200/300 combo AO stone
500/800 combo AO stone
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hanging strop with 0.5 micron paste (veritas green)

I had no idea they were so cheap. I was thinking I would have to spend another $50 or $60.

What size stones do you recommend and do you recommend ...

vampyrewolf wrote:polishing out the scratches and getting my main bevel to a mirror finish before putting on the microbevel.

How are you polishing out the scratches with the same stone? With lighter pressure?

vampyrewolf wrote:I usually take about 10-15 to turn a 40deg into a 30deg with my 200/300 combo stone and close to an hour before I'm done that edge with it popping hair.

After you're at 30°, what are you doing for the rest of the hour?

vampyrewolf wrote:The "best" way to reprofile an edge is to get either a course DMT or AO stone

What are the pro's and cons of DMT vs. AO stone?

vampyrewolf wrote:Sandpaper on a mousepad will work well on a blade to convex it, or on glass or granite to give a smooth flat surface for a normal edge... but you'll be working a while.

More time or less time than with the diamond SM stones?

You really should do yourself a favor and get a set of good bench stones...
The sharpmaker is a great tool to touch up and resharpen knives that have overall good edge condition with little damage other than just being a bit dull... If you are trying to take very dull knives and make them sharp ...

I did some more work on the Henckels kitchen knife. I decided to go back to the 30° angles on the Sharpmaker. I thought that the diamond SM stones might leave too ragged an edge, so I used the coarse (brown/grey) stones. Once again, it took a lot longer than I expected. OTOH, it's kind of ...

OK, I decided to take another crack at sharpening a knife, this time a Henckels kitchen knife. This knife is about 25 years old. It was steeled from time to time, but it was never sharpened. The composition of the steel is unknown beyond being stainless steel. The blade is marked Friodur. The spine ...

When you get your burr dont raise to a higher angel.. you should slightly lower the angle for some of your strokes

I'm not clear on what you mean by lowering the angle. If I am sharpening with the Sharpmaker, do I tilt the spine of the blade more toward the stone I am using to sharpen or more ...

trucker1964 wrote:I don't rotate the blade. I put a slight amount or rotational pressure either clockwise or counterclockwise depending on left or right stone.

So the blade still stays straight up and down but there is more pressure against the stone on the bottom of the blade than the top?

The diamonds for the sharpmaker... It's my opinion they are nice for thinning and rebeveling the edge of kitchen type cutlery but they are not ideal for many other types and styles of knives.

I'm starting to think that's the case.

The Dmt non interrupted type stones.. The ones that dont have ...

All right. After some additional amount of stroking with the diamond stones, and raising a burr and getting rid of it, I finally got all of the black marker off the bevel on the obverse side of the blade. I cleaned my coarse and fine stones (using BarKeeper's Friend and a green Scotchbrite cloth ...

I assume that when using the flat sides of the triangle stones it is best to keep the blade flat against the side of the stone. If the blade is angled one way, it will rub against the front corner, and if angled the other way, it will rub against the back corner. This defeats the purpose of having a ...

At first I was just trying to hold the blade straight with my arm only and I don't think I was consistent. I learned to use the stones as a support for me to hold the blade straight. What I do is hold the knife with my thumb on top of the spine and put slight pressure on it in the way you would ...

I decided to keep working on the stockman slippie that I bought at Wal-Mart for $5, this time using the diamond stones at 40°. I regularly used the Sharpie on the bevel and noted that the back side of the blade was closer to 40° than the obverse. After a while, I got the back side to where it was at ...