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Guys and Gals,
I am no newb to sharpening. I have been in this hobby for serveral years now, and own quite a few CRKs and several Spydercos, as well as some fixed blades. All my knives, excluding one or two, are daily users in rotation. All of my CRKs, including several Sebenza 21s, I can sharpen successfully, but one: my first 21, which is a standard point, micarta, made in 2012, S35VN. I have a few sebenzas of similar vintage (before the hardness upgrade) that cause me no grief. It is not that this particular knife takes an edge and then goes dull, it seems to simply not take an edge. It has been sharpened on rods (sharpmaker), loaded strops, and free-hand on a bench stone in my endless quest to get this knife sharp, but none of these techniques seem to work. My efforts with everything else I do are satisfactory.
So, my question:
Can a blade with some sort of metallurgy issue (too soft, too hard etc) behave in such a way that no sharpening technique will produce a nice shaving-sharp edge on it? Remember, I am not worried about edge retention, I just cant get a good initial edge on this one blade. Is it maybe a fubar blade?
I am no newb to sharpening. I have been in this hobby for serveral years now, and own quite a few CRKs and several Spydercos, as well as some fixed blades. All my knives, excluding one or two, are daily users in rotation. All of my CRKs, including several Sebenza 21s, I can sharpen successfully, but one: my first 21, which is a standard point, micarta, made in 2012, S35VN. I have a few sebenzas of similar vintage (before the hardness upgrade) that cause me no grief. It is not that this particular knife takes an edge and then goes dull, it seems to simply not take an edge. It has been sharpened on rods (sharpmaker), loaded strops, and free-hand on a bench stone in my endless quest to get this knife sharp, but none of these techniques seem to work. My efforts with everything else I do are satisfactory.
So, my question:
Can a blade with some sort of metallurgy issue (too soft, too hard etc) behave in such a way that no sharpening technique will produce a nice shaving-sharp edge on it? Remember, I am not worried about edge retention, I just cant get a good initial edge on this one blade. Is it maybe a fubar blade?
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