JoviAl wrote: ↑Sat Sep 16, 2023 6:48 amIgnore my previous question on the other postalphaneuron9 wrote: ↑Fri Sep 15, 2023 7:56 pmMan, this thread has gotten good. Thanks to everyone participating. Great advice on how to sharpen Vanax!
JoviAl, I happen to do dual grit sharpening as well on my MC. 200/3000 is what I use, just cause that´s what I had available at the moment. I found it does increase edge retention. Curious, what do you do? It´s toothy and stays paper cutting sharp much longer. (not exactly scientific)
I dual grit mine at 320/1500 usually, then finish on a mother’s mag or 0.25 diamond strop. That gets me about 1000-1500 pruning cuts on tropical plants (banana, papaya, torch ginger, Moringa, cacao, mulberry and a lot of soursop wood mainly) before I switch to another knife. For reference with a mirror edge and hair splitting sharpness I get about 600-800 cuts from the same knife with the same edge angles. Gabe from TheHomeSlice is on here sometimes and does great experiments with dual grit edges and their optimisation. Worth chatting to him if you can or checking him out on YouTube if you haven’t already
Yeah, man! Of course I ran it by Gabe on his youTube channel! Its so cool to find people that know all about the subject matter in one forum. I know that´s the point, but still soaking it in. Before I discovered this forum, it was bladeHQ knife steel guide, followed by knifesteelnerds and youTube. Great learning resources. Now I want to do an apprenticeship with someone!! LOL