Wartstein wrote: ↑Wed May 27, 2020 11:42 am
ThomC wrote: ↑Wed May 27, 2020 11:28 am
Wartstein wrote: ↑Wed May 27, 2020 10:34 am
ThomC wrote: ↑Wed May 27, 2020 8:29 am
Fresh off the newly arrived Sharpmaker. Vivi's technique works wonders, every serration now shaves effortlessly.
That's a Paramiltary 1 ! I went straight to the 15 degree setting, and tried to sharpen the knife by bringing the bevel to the 'clicking' point on the stone, like Vivi mentions in his video.
I figured that since my former PM2 was at 30 degree and my Millie is at 30 degree, I'd go with that.
Right! Looked like the Para 3 on my phone screen (mainly due to the just 5 scallops of the serrations)
/ Ok, so you set up the SM at 15 degrees, but then did somehow "freehand sharpening", since you tilted the blade till the angle was right? (And did not strictly go perpendicular to the ground up and down)?
Was just asking in my precious post, cause there is a line on your knife where the black coating is removed just where the apex ends towards the primary bevel. That´s typically the case when one tries to sharpen a lets say 40 incl. (PE in that case) apex on the 30 incl SM setting.
I think it was the first sharpening since the factory one.
What I did was :
- SM set at 30 degrees with a single rod
- put the heel of the blade on it and adjusted it until it clicked on the rod
- made my 6:1 passes from there, deburring with the knife almost flat on the stone, going upwards
It felt like the same angle as the original one, so maybe I was just a little too tilted on the rod ? I know I went straight down, no following the curve of the blade. Keeping the spine straight and perpendicular to the base.
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