Hey everyone,
I have a Police4 that had a pretty weird patina pattern until I took a long time scrubbing it away to start over. So what I have is pretty much a new Police4, but with a scoured blade. (It actually looks pretty cool now with a faded spyderco bug logo and wording on the blade. You can still clearly see them, but it's much more subtle than when it was new.) It still has the factory bevel on it (which doesn't come at the best angles, or sharpness.)
Some background info is that I am SUPER NEW to sharpening knives. I've had the Sharpmaker for a few months. I also recently got the medium grit bench stone from Spyderco, but I haven't used it yet.
My main question is: If you were in my shoes and have zero re-profiling experience (and very little sharpening experience) "who would you send this to for a re-profiling & sharpening job?"
A few ideas I've come to so far is to send it to Spyderco's Golden address to see what they will do to sharpen it, but I am assume they would absolutely not re-profile it to a more ideal bevel (such as what Sal has mentioned he prefers for this model in K390)
Or send it to Big Brown Bear, the awesome dude on this forum and youtube etc.. I know he has the Police4 and loves it from what I've seen. So for sure he would have experience with what an ideal bevel and edge would be.
or someone else ??? Vivi?? or ???
I have no issue paying for this service. I'm just REALLY hoping to get someone who will do a very good job.
(My plan is to be very mindful while I use it once it has a more extreme edge angle!)
Thanks for any advice on this guys.