Alright, what's going on here... Just got a DMT EF.

harkamus said:
Let me get this straight, you can actually polish the blade edge to a mirror finish?

How does one achieve that level of polish on the actual blade edge?
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By progressively sharpening the blade at finer and finer grits until the scratches are so finely spaced that the edge looks like a mirror you get a mirrored bevel.

Mike
 
Is there a system like a spyderco sharpmaker but that has stones fine enough in grit to achieve said mirrored bevel?
 
harkamus said:
Is there a system like a spyderco sharpmaker but that has stones fine enough in grit to achieve said mirrored bevel?
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The Spyderco ultra fine stones will get you a really shiny edge, but I'm not sure about mirror-polish.

If you want mirror-polish, I think most people use 0.5 micron diamond paste to get that.

Personally, I stop at DMT EF.

My EF stone has been working very well now. I guess it was really the break-in period. I've always been impatient lol
 
The Spyderco UF stone will give you a mirror polish but there is always room for improvement. My UF ceramic is a little finer than others and gives a nice mirror polish but if you look close enough you can see that it is not perfect.

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Same edge looking a little closer and you can see that its not as mirrored as it looks.
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Now if you move on to a strop with compound it gets better but for a true mirror polish you will need to progress through strop compounds also, 1.0, 0.5, 0.25 micron.

I don't have any good pics of a perfect mirror polish but give me a bit and I put one up.
 
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