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Within the past month or two I wrote "How to Make the benchmade Axis Perform" on the knife reviews forum. It describes how I sharpened my Axis and got a 700% performance improvement. It's really a general tutorial on sharpening recurved blades -- I sharpened my Cold Steel El Hombre according to the methods in that post. There are plenty of methods to sharpen recurved blades, but method I used utilizes the spyderco 204 so it uses equipment that should soon be ubiquitous.
The general principle is, use something that has a much smaller diameter than the diameter of the recurve. I find the small DMT stones still wider than I'd like, ditto the Edge Pro Apex stones. If I didn't have the 204, I'd use a ceramic or diamond rod.
Joe
Within the past month or two I wrote "How to Make the benchmade Axis Perform" on the knife reviews forum. It describes how I sharpened my Axis and got a 700% performance improvement. It's really a general tutorial on sharpening recurved blades -- I sharpened my Cold Steel El Hombre according to the methods in that post. There are plenty of methods to sharpen recurved blades, but method I used utilizes the spyderco 204 so it uses equipment that should soon be ubiquitous.
The general principle is, use something that has a much smaller diameter than the diameter of the recurve. I find the small DMT stones still wider than I'd like, ditto the Edge Pro Apex stones. If I didn't have the 204, I'd use a ceramic or diamond rod.
Joe