What Did You Sharpen Today?

Blade Lab said:
How's the carpal tunnel feeling today? :p
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Wasn't to bad. I took it to a grinder, followed the contour of the blade a couple times and looked at my Venev Diamond Stone 80 grit and said "Sick'm boy"

777 Edge said:
Oh my goodness, looks like Joe's buddy cut into a live wire with that Kershaw of his! 😂

That took some re-profiling, must have been awesome to do it on your TSProf K03.👌🏻
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He did just that, lucky he aint hurt, was DC voltage wire.
I'm liking my K03 just fine, a few complaints but it's personal preference thing.
 
Don't you love it when lightning strikes and you hit the perfect angle? I actually sharpened this McNees Mac 2 yesterday, using my standard Tormek T-8 with 400/1000 CBN wheels and stropping on the Work Sharp Elite with leather belts and 1 micron diamond + Tormek PA-70 compound. Sharpened at 16° per side. The BESS score came out to 80g, which I was fine with.

Today, however, I broke down some boxes and went back to the Work Sharp, just using the PA-70 belt, just to tidy the edge back up. And WTF?? :eek:



I thought it was an anomalous reading, which happens from time to time, but I tested again in a different spot and got exactly the same reading.
 
I consider the 80 gram score with a fairly thick blade to be very excellent. That's some fine sharpening! Don't cut yourself to death with that sharp knife!

The only thing I can think of to explain the 30g score is there might be some tiny sawing motion in the test. When I do it the medium breaks immediately, even with minimal weight applied. Resting the forward section of the blade on the fulcrum might be contributing by pushing the edge horizontally as you lower it. That doesn't explain why the same operator got what look like legit scores the first time.

Testing it with a fast motion will do it as well, but I'm sure that isn't a problem for the guy knocking down 80's!

I love the BESS tester, but I think the operation is very dependent on the operator, and in my case, the time of day. I'd like to compare results between four different operators testing the same blade. 30 grams makes me think we're missing something.
 
Blade Lab said:
Today, however, I broke down some boxes and went back to the Work Sharp, just using the PA-70 belt, just to tidy the edge back up. And WTF?? :eek:



I thought it was an anomalous reading, which happens from time to time, but I tested again in a different spot and got exactly the same reading.
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Very interesting! The only thing that makes sense in my mind is that it possibly had a stubborn little micro burr that wasn't easily visible before being removed by the cardboard...can't think of anything other than that.
 
777 Edge said:
Very interesting! The only thing that makes sense in my mind is that it possibly had a stubborn little micro burr that wasn't easily visible before being removed by the cardboard...can't think of anything other than that.
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Well, I did re-hone it on the Work Sharp after the cardboard, and I think it was the combination that created that super clean apex. Typically, even the superest of super steels will jump around 100g on the best test after breaking down a few boxes. What really separates the super steels from less wear resistant steels is how long they maintain that working edge, as opposed to a hair-whittling edge.
 
Khromo said:
I repair musical instruments, so I always have one of these small files within lunging distance. The safe edges are very useful!
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Where did you get the files from?

Letoff said:
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Is that a Hapstone stone holder box? If it is, do you like it and I’ve also wondered if it came assembled. It looks like it is made to snap/lock together.
 
Blade Lab said:
Don't you love it when lightning strikes and you hit the perfect angle? I actually sharpened this McNees Mac 2 yesterday, using my standard Tormek T-8 with 400/1000 CBN wheels and stropping on the Work Sharp Elite with leather belts and 1 micron diamond + Tormek PA-70 compound. Sharpened at 16° per side. The BESS score came out to 80g, which I was fine with.

Today, however, I broke down some boxes and went back to the Work Sharp, just using the PA-70 belt, just to tidy the edge back up. And WTF?? :eek:



I thought it was an anomalous reading, which happens from time to time, but I tested again in a different spot and got exactly the same reading.
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Something similar happened a couple of times with some of my knives. I sharpened my 20CV Benchmade Bugout to around 120-130 BESS used it for some light tasks and a week or so later stropped it again and got 90-100 out of it.
 
Arkansawyer said:
Where did you get the files from?
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They are available from Stewart MacDonald Guitar Supply something-or-other, Philadelphia Luthier, Luthier's Mercantile, any of the shops that supply luthiers and guitar techs. They are usually called fret end dressing files or something like that. There's a guy on the big online sites called FretGuru that sells a good one as well, for about twice the price. Buying from the specialty suppliers is a little more expensive.

They are stock Nicholson files, available for a few dollars less from McMaster-Carr, but I have a heck of a time tracking them down on that site!

I usually run the safe edges over a hard Arkansas stone to clean them up.
 
Sharpened the Spyderco Resilience, Stretch 2 k390, and the Cold Steel XL Voyager.

Stretch 2 must have hit something hard at work because the edge was just rolled, didn't take much to grind the roll off, reshape and repolish the bevel.

Resilience and Voyager were heavily worn abrasively, so they took quite some time completely regrinding the bevels back in.

All knives sharpened using 220/325/600/1200 DMT plates. Very hard tool steels get stropped on 4000/8000/50,000/100,000 diamond paste on denim, and low alloy steels get stropped with white compound on denim.

Everything gets sharpened to 15° per side.
 
Who has two thumbs and is stupid enough to sharpen a brand new Oz Roosevelt that came with a perfectly serviceable edge? This guy! :thumbsup::thumbsup:😅

To be fair, I have no intention of ever selling it, so I care way more about putting the best edge I can on it than maintaining a factory edge forever. I'm the second owner, but I don't think it was ever cut with. Factory BESS score was 160g, which, again, is a good factory edge. Edge angle from the factory was 17.5° on one side and 18.5° on the other.

The blade (Magnacut at 63-64 hrc) is an astonishingly thin 0.006-7" behind the edge, so I opted to sharpen at 16° instead of my usual 15 for better stability. Tormek T-8, 400 CBN wheel --> 1000 CBN wheel --> Worksharp Elite leather belt with 1 micron diamond, 1 pass at 17° --> 2x at 16° --> 2x Tormek PA-70 compound also at 16°.

 
What am I sharpening ? My skills to scream like a girl !!

Been sharpening with my new K03, coming from a Blitz 360.
A simple "reach for something" or movement that was trained on the 360 can be consequential on the K03. Blade is not in the same place as before.
Be careful out there fellas.

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Have any of you guys chasing Bess numbers tried jasper or petrified wood? I use them on occasion with straight razors as a post finisher, to further refine an already shave ready edge, I don't use them to create an edge.
My sharpest edges come off of them but they are bloody unforgiving, to sharp might be a thing.
 
Thanks Brotha Paul. Was a Frankenstein that I purchased here on the forum. I plan on polishing the blade once I catch up on sharpening.
 
On today's agenda. A vintage Schrade Sharpfinger, Benchmade Anonimus, and a mid 2000's Buck 110.

The Sharpfinger has been rounded from bad stone sharpening. Really dull.

The Buck is a touch up.

The Benchmade is getting refined more then sharpened. The factory edge looks like it was sharpened by dragging it along concrete. Micro chip looking, crazy rough grind. More toothy then a dental office. Practically a saw. Cru-wear.
 
Arkansawyer said:
Letoff Letoff Is that a Hampstone wooden stone holder in your picture? If it is how do like it and did it come together?
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That is a storage case from gritomatic, their brand. It does what it's suppose to, holds my stones, 12 in total. I don't use it actively when I'm working, I usually keep my stones to the right of my sharpener on a microfiber cloth (just happen to have a lot of microfiber cloths, no reason or rhyme to lay them on a micro fiber cloth).
It does come put together, I do like it, I store my edge pro's when I'm not using them and vice versa with my venev. It will hold stones and strops if you use the 6" x 1" strops as I once did. It's a great organizer and I'm OCD so fits me perfectly. Just checked and you can pick one up for $33 bucks and some change.
 
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