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Alright, time for Chapter 3: The 3" Slicer made slicier again!
This one I picked up off the forums and it had previously been "professionally sharpened" by someone with and EdgePro. And don't get me wrong, it was pretty sharp and the bevel was very well polished and even. Better polished than I can currently do on the WE really:
But there was a problem:
As you can see, the previous sharpener didn't actually take their polished edge all the way to the apex on the lower half of the blade. Yeah. But hey, this I can work with. If they had ground off too much steel, that would have been severely worse, so I'm counting my blessings.
So anyways, I decided to not go super acute on the first sharpening on this one and only reprofiled it back from 20 degrees per side to 17.5 degrees per side. I figure you can always take more steel away later, you can never put it back. I think it came out really nice.
Beginning:
Middle (Just sharpened to 1000 grit diamonds):
End:
Up next, the Half Track report!
This one I picked up off the forums and it had previously been "professionally sharpened" by someone with and EdgePro. And don't get me wrong, it was pretty sharp and the bevel was very well polished and even. Better polished than I can currently do on the WE really:
But there was a problem:
As you can see, the previous sharpener didn't actually take their polished edge all the way to the apex on the lower half of the blade. Yeah. But hey, this I can work with. If they had ground off too much steel, that would have been severely worse, so I'm counting my blessings.
So anyways, I decided to not go super acute on the first sharpening on this one and only reprofiled it back from 20 degrees per side to 17.5 degrees per side. I figure you can always take more steel away later, you can never put it back. I think it came out really nice.
Beginning:
Middle (Just sharpened to 1000 grit diamonds):
End:
Up next, the Half Track report!