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I see that buck recommends their knives be sharpened to 13-16 degrees per side. I am also reading other useful threads on here but wondering is there is a method to the madness or just bad QC. I got a very sharp 420hc knife from buck and have others but figure I should stick with what the manufactured recommends and sells. The issue is that when measuring the angle I get 14 degrees on one side of the blade and 8 degrees on the other. I measured this with a black sharpy and wedges cut to find the angle on a stone, measuring from the center line of the blade. I assume its just a QC issue and nothing more but as much as I have looked into sharpening I have seen all kinds of blade angles being cut. I know its a budget material and was wondering whats the sharpest angle I could push for cutting soft material , 13 dps?