A New Edge

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Shawn7656

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I put a stonewash finish on one of my knives, seen here
http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php/928132-The-Poor-Mans-Stonewash-(revisited)
It took every bit of the edge off of it, and then some. I'm putting about a 20º edge onto the knife now (as opposed to the 25-ish that it had stock) and I'm wondering if I'm still supposed to wait for the bur to form when putting a new edge on the blade. I've been sharpening one side for about ten minutes now on a cheap coarse stone I bought and while it's starting to finally thin the edge down, I still haven't made a bur :(

I doubt I'll get replies before I do it this way anyways, but I was wondering if this is the method to use when putting an almost completely new bevel and edge onto a knife.

Hopefully I get a reply before I finish :D
 
dont sharpen too much on one side. do the same ammount on the other side and get the bevels even. just keep at it and pretty soon you'll have a burr. strop the burr off and you're done.
 
Will do OWE haha, thanks

Well Richard... I kind of did make the bevels uneven. I made the burr on my first side, flipped it over and a burr formed on the other side pretty instantaneously... I kept going for a little while on that side even afterwards, but they're still not the same size.
I've gotta say this is the sharpest knife I've ever held though hahaha.

Besides the sharpness of this thing, how do I go about fixing the other bevel without destroying the blade? Will I just have to make a burr two or three times? The bevel on my first side is about 2mm wide (wide?) and the other side is about 1mm lol
 
Even if the bevels are not evened up, so long as it's SHARP to your satisfaction, I'd just use it as is. In time, with subsequent sharpenings, you can even up the bevels. I've never regretted waiting a while in 'fixing' cosmetic issues like this. If you keep working on improving your sharpening prowess on other knives in the meantime, you might have a clearer perspective, and get better results, when you re-visit this one later on.
 
So it won't really affect it at all? As long as it's just cosmetic I don't really care too much ;) lol
 
Unless you're doing some really specialized cutting, which would require cutting in a perfectly straight line down into a material, the asymmetry of the bevels won't likely affect anything. It's much worse on 'thicker' (more obtuse) edges, if the bevels are grossly uneven, where the asymmetry would cause the edge to turn away from the 'obtuse' side, and toward the acute side. Looks like your blade is hollow-ground to a fairly thin edge, so I doubt you'd ever notice it.
 
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