14C28N Edge Angle?

[oldschool45]

Has anybody played with Kershaw’s new blade steel from Sandvik to find out how low of an angle it will take and stay stable? I have a Zing in it that I took from the factory 25’ /50” inclusive down to 20’/40’ and it seams to hold pretty good. I’m wondering if I can take it down to 17’/34’ and still be able to cut anything other than paper and hair and have it still be usable afterwards.

 

[Jason B.]

Mine is 15 or less and does just fine.

 

[oldschool45]

I tried polishing out the groves on that blade on my buffer. The bottom by the edge polishes out nice the rest is probably gonna take more patience than I’ve got. Next Chance I get I’ll take it down to 17’/34’ clean and see if I need a 20’ microbevel. I’m training my wrist with a Lansky hence the 30/25/20/17’ angles. Thanks

 

[Vivi]

I've taken 13C26 down to 10 degrees per side (And lower) and it held up well, so I would expect 14C28N to do just fine at the angles you mentioned.

 

[Dog of War]

In testing my Random Leek, I took it down to 10 degrees/side primary geometry, and have informally compared edge retention with microbevels of 15 deg/side and 17 deg/side. The 17 deg/side microbevel was found to give better edge retention; note this is the same as I have found with Sandvik 13C26 and 12C27.

Running the primary edge bevel at 10 deg/side has given no problems.

See: http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=594351

 

[oldschool45]

Thanks for all the info I just wanted to see if I could take it down that low and not worry about having to bring it back to 20/40’ if the edge was too delicate for my purposes.