S35VN stability

[RugerNurse]

Thanks for all your help everyone. I’ll try some of the tips and see. Helps to know you don’t have to get a burr if you’re touching it up which is mostly what I do anyway.

[MacLaren]

Once you have formed a burr initially, you have apexed your edge and it is not crucial to keep forming a burr at every grit level you progress through. Once the apex is established you can think of the successive grits as refinement to an already formed edge. I don't tend to worry about being able to form a detectable burr past 600 grit ANSI, although even past that point you do want to make sure that you use proper deburring technique by using light alternating strokes to finish your edge.

+1

[RugerNurse]

Glad to say I touched up the edge with single strokes on each side and stropped it. Cut some notches in a stick while out at a state park and even batoned it through a stick to break it into smaller chunks and the edge held up beautifully.