bladeboss said:
Work-sharp huh?......
Does it work?
The guys from Benchmade were using those exact machines to do some sharpening at the last year's SHOT in Vegas.
You can see the machines on the left, behind the guy:
Some close-ups of their work.
Those attachments were not available probably till the end of 2014 or early 2015. I got mine few months back and I use it primarily for re-profiling and polishing.
It's good for quick touch-up or sharpening of a working knife, for more expensive specimens, I'd probably use fixed angle system.
If you're use to working with it, you can get above average results that look like factory sharpened edge, it's also great for convexing or for convexed edges, I do have few and it works just fine on those.
An 8min or so video for whoever care, I shot it today, sharpening my Voyager with the new steel. Sun was blasting really hard in my eyes and I didn't see well, I get better results at home, also wasn't able to focus on the edge after I was done, but one can get the idea.
Obviously, I'm sharpening backwards because of the camera, otherwise would be difficult to take a good shot. I'm going against the direction of the belt, which is not recommended, but I do this all the time, I got no safety problems or anything, I just don't get big burr that way...
Best watched on 1080.
[video=youtube;lH98HwvWVQs]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lH98HwvWVQs[/video]