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Ugh. My weekend (Monday/Tuesday) went by waaaaay too fast.
On the plus side, I got to spend the entire day today sharpening knives (I did seven) and watching videos on Edge Pro tips. I'm really liking how easy it is to pick up and I'm just really loving the system overall. Thanks again @bhyde! My left arm is still partly useless because of my shoulder surgery so the clip side edge of my knives tend to turn out better than the display side, but my ability and speed has already GREATLY improved compared to when I first started with Edge Pro a dozen knives ago. After talking to Mr. Dale from Edge Pro I ended up ordering a 1000 grit stone to replace the 800 I'm using now... And I plan on picking up the 2300 grit and 4000 grit polishing stones in the next month or so when I get a bit better with the system. I'm LOVING the drill stop collar, quick release spring and magnets so far. I have to change the masking tape more often with the magnets, but it makes it a lot easier to sharpen with my gimpy arm.
I've been using an AngleCube to set the edges exactly where I want them and the drill stop collar has kept that angle to within a small fraction of a degree (the MadRookieSBL video on this is excellent). It's pretty awesome. I've mainly been sharpening kitchen knives and setting the angle to 18 degrees simply because I wanted some practice reprofiling and I liked the number, lol. I think I'll probably go back and reprofile all of them to around 15 degrees now that I'm a bit more practiced as I tend to like Japanese kitchen knives over American kitchen knives and most of the ones I've used have had a 15 degree edge. We'll see how it holds up on my Victorinox chef knives. I think I'm going to reprofile all/most of my pocket knives to a 20 degree edge with the edge pro and then use the sharpmaker to set and maintain the secondary bevel at 15 degrees. Anyone think that's a terrible idea??
The other cool thing about the system is that it's been teaching me a bit about different steels. The first knife I sharpened was made of high carbon steel (KAI Pure Komachi 2) and the second knife I sharpened was a Gerber Gator with 420HC. I was able to easily get the high carbon blade to a hair shaving sharpness right off the bat, while I was only able to scrape hair away with a little difficulty after sharpening the 420HC. I've also been able to get longer blades (chef knives) sharper than smaller blades so far for some reason.
Here's a pic of my very first attempt with the Edge Pro a couple weeks ago. It's on a small KAI paring knife. I used the 120 to reprofile (probably wasn't needed) and then progressively went through the 220, 320, 800 and then hit it a with a couple light passes with the 2000 grit tape. It's not a perfect mirror or anything, but I was proud of my first attempt, lol. I'll be sure to post a new pic when the 1000 grit stone arrives to show the difference a couple weeks has made.
Also... New Knife Day!!
I picked up that Morakniv Bushcraft Survival that I traded my Seal Pup Elite for. My buddy was feeling extra generous and threw in a couple extra Moras he had laying around (a Companion with Sandvik and a Clipper with Carbon) bringing my total of Moraknives up to four, lol. The Bushcraft will be my new belt knife while I'm camping and the Companion, Craftline Pro S and Clipper will be food prep knives while camping.
I think I'm going to buy one more stone to bridge the gap from the Norton 100/280 Crystolon and the strop with Bark River Black and White compounds I have. Any suggestions? I was thinking maybe a cheaper 1000/6000 grit waterstone like a King or something. I don't need anything too fancy at this point as I'll just be using it on the Moras and the Svord since I have the Edge Pro for everything else.
I also have a couple really cool knives coming, but it looks like they're a month or so out so I'll wait until then to talk about that.
On the plus side, I got to spend the entire day today sharpening knives (I did seven) and watching videos on Edge Pro tips. I'm really liking how easy it is to pick up and I'm just really loving the system overall. Thanks again @bhyde! My left arm is still partly useless because of my shoulder surgery so the clip side edge of my knives tend to turn out better than the display side, but my ability and speed has already GREATLY improved compared to when I first started with Edge Pro a dozen knives ago. After talking to Mr. Dale from Edge Pro I ended up ordering a 1000 grit stone to replace the 800 I'm using now... And I plan on picking up the 2300 grit and 4000 grit polishing stones in the next month or so when I get a bit better with the system. I'm LOVING the drill stop collar, quick release spring and magnets so far. I have to change the masking tape more often with the magnets, but it makes it a lot easier to sharpen with my gimpy arm.
I've been using an AngleCube to set the edges exactly where I want them and the drill stop collar has kept that angle to within a small fraction of a degree (the MadRookieSBL video on this is excellent). It's pretty awesome. I've mainly been sharpening kitchen knives and setting the angle to 18 degrees simply because I wanted some practice reprofiling and I liked the number, lol. I think I'll probably go back and reprofile all of them to around 15 degrees now that I'm a bit more practiced as I tend to like Japanese kitchen knives over American kitchen knives and most of the ones I've used have had a 15 degree edge. We'll see how it holds up on my Victorinox chef knives. I think I'm going to reprofile all/most of my pocket knives to a 20 degree edge with the edge pro and then use the sharpmaker to set and maintain the secondary bevel at 15 degrees. Anyone think that's a terrible idea??
The other cool thing about the system is that it's been teaching me a bit about different steels. The first knife I sharpened was made of high carbon steel (KAI Pure Komachi 2) and the second knife I sharpened was a Gerber Gator with 420HC. I was able to easily get the high carbon blade to a hair shaving sharpness right off the bat, while I was only able to scrape hair away with a little difficulty after sharpening the 420HC. I've also been able to get longer blades (chef knives) sharper than smaller blades so far for some reason.
Here's a pic of my very first attempt with the Edge Pro a couple weeks ago. It's on a small KAI paring knife. I used the 120 to reprofile (probably wasn't needed) and then progressively went through the 220, 320, 800 and then hit it a with a couple light passes with the 2000 grit tape. It's not a perfect mirror or anything, but I was proud of my first attempt, lol. I'll be sure to post a new pic when the 1000 grit stone arrives to show the difference a couple weeks has made.
Also... New Knife Day!!
I picked up that Morakniv Bushcraft Survival that I traded my Seal Pup Elite for. My buddy was feeling extra generous and threw in a couple extra Moras he had laying around (a Companion with Sandvik and a Clipper with Carbon) bringing my total of Moraknives up to four, lol. The Bushcraft will be my new belt knife while I'm camping and the Companion, Craftline Pro S and Clipper will be food prep knives while camping.
I think I'm going to buy one more stone to bridge the gap from the Norton 100/280 Crystolon and the strop with Bark River Black and White compounds I have. Any suggestions? I was thinking maybe a cheaper 1000/6000 grit waterstone like a King or something. I don't need anything too fancy at this point as I'll just be using it on the Moras and the Svord since I have the Edge Pro for everything else.
I also have a couple really cool knives coming, but it looks like they're a month or so out so I'll wait until then to talk about that.
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