Bevel Curse.

[Zookie]

I've been having the hardest time with sharpening my favorite knifes, the Strider SNG and Sebenza. Both have incredibly steep bevels (especially towards the tip) and when I take both knives to the spyderco sharpmaker on 40 degrees im forced to tilt the knife even more to around 50 degrees, just to get the edge to hit the stones so It can be sharpened.

Both of my knives came this way with steep bevels and I don't know what to do, I've read Sebenza's usually comes with 19 to 17 degree angles but not mine. I bought diamond rods and have spent hours on both knives trying to get rid of the shoulders on the edge so that it can actually get sharpened at a 40 degree angle, but no progress. I just bought the wicked edge with their coarsest stones for reprofiling, but I'm worried this won't be enough to fix the problem.

Am I doing anything wrong? I'm waiting for the wicked edge to ship so I wont know for a while.

Thanks,
Zack

 

[Esav Benyamin]

(Please post sharpening threads in Maintenance, Tinkering & Embellishment, where I've moved this.)

 

[TriviaMonster]

The Wicked Edge will be fine. It just takes some patience is all. Take your time, use light pressure, use a sharpie, and read up on all the tips and tricks and you will be getting hair popping edges after just a couple tries.

 

[Dan57]

I can think of four options.

1. Just wait for the Wicked Edge. It should work better than the Sharpmaker at reprofiling.
2. Send the knives back to the factory. (I'm not sure if bad edge grinds are covered under their warranties, though.)
3. Wrap some extra-coarse sandpaper (tightly) around the Sharpmaker stones you already have, and then reprofile using the makeshift extra-coarse stone.
4. Send the knives to a professional sharpener, and let them reprofile for you. Send CrimsonTideShooter, (a.k.a. jdavis882 on YouTube,) a PM.

 

[boki_zca]

Norton stone is easy to use, and gives great edge!!!!!! Belt sander too, you just have to be very careful!To reprofile you need to use either ,then you can touch up with sharpmaker....

 

[Hightide]

I can think of four options.

1. Just wait for the Wicked Edge. It should work better than the Sharpmaker at reprofiling.
2. Send the knives back to the factory. (I'm not sure if bad edge grinds are covered under their warranties, though.)
3. Wrap some extra-coarse sandpaper (tightly) around the Sharpmaker stones you already have, and then reprofile using the makeshift extra-coarse stone.
4. Send the knives to a professional sharpener, and let them reprofile for you. Send CrimsonTideShooter, (a.k.a. jdavis882 on YouTube,) a PM.

I think he is taking a sharping break at the moment (at least as of a week ago)...