Bevel setting?

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Mephtyrm

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I got a a Lansky deluxe with the 5 stones and I thought a stone as course as freakin 70 grit would be able to re profile fairly fast,
but I was wrong and it is taking forever to change the angle for 23 to 20.
It's not the fault of the sharpener, and I would like to know a method of setting a bevel fast.
I am very impatient most of the time and the steels I'm try to re profile are those easy to sharpen steels, 440C and AUS8 and such.
Is there any faster way to change the angle to a shallower one?
 
When I'm rebevelling knives I use 80-120 grit sandpaper over leather then finish the edge on stones. I've also found that stainless steels take more time to sharpen. Good luck.
 
I've got two Lansky kits, the 'Deluxe' like yours, and a diamond kit. The Deluxe kit was OK, but I was never very enamored with the standard hones, especially if trying to re-bevel. My stones seemed to load up very, very quickly, which really degrades performance fast. I bought a medium diamond hone to supplement that kit, and it did most of the 'grunt work' after that. I've since bought the full diamond kit, and the difference in re-profiling speed is night & day. Used it yesterday, in fact.

For now, I'd suggest getting yourself a supplemental diamond hone, maybe coarse. My medium diamond hone did the job, most of the time, but I found myself wishing for a coarser one a time or two, with some more abrasion-resistant steels like S30V and D2. One diamond hone to start, will set the bevel. Then, the remaining standard hones in the Deluxe kit will finish the job just fine.
 
So I could buy just the extra coarse diamond stone and it would still fit?
I have noticed that the extra coarse sounds less abrasive in a matter of seconds after I start, so Diamond is the way to go I guess.
 
An Extra-coarse diamond stone will help. Reprofiling is always a pain, even with a belt grinder. We feel your pain!
Good sharpening,
Dave
 
Mephtyrm said:
So I could buy just the extra coarse diamond stone and it would still fit?
I have noticed that the extra coarse sounds less abrasive in a matter of seconds after I start, so Diamond is the way to go I guess.
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That's exactly my impression, when I first tried out my 'Deluxe' kit. The standard hones in it really seemed to go sort of 'slick' in short order; I'm sure it's due to the stone loading up with swarf.

The extra-coarse diamond will work fine for you, if that's the one you decide to go with. For me, it's sort of a toss-up between the coarse and extra-coarse. With diamond's aggressiveness, even less-coarse hones can work quite fast, depending on the steel. Most of the typical steels I've sharpened. like 1095, 420HC, 440C, AUS-8, ATS-34 and even VG-10 have responded well to the medium hone, starting out. The coarse or extra-coarse would come in handy for something like S30V (especially) or D2, which are very abrasion-resistant and take considerably more time.
 
As everyone said, reprofiling (thinning) bevel is always a pain on ordinary stone.

Took me 2 weeks over more than 10 sessions (not daily) to bring down Navy k631 440C, 3.75 inch edge, from 40 inclusive to 25 (appox). I share your pain. ;)

No diamond stone available locally ... Sigh :(
 
I've used the standard extra course stone with good results to reprofile 420HC and AUS-8 and don't remember it taking too long. I have set on all my EDCs to 25 or 30 degrees so I can't justify getting an extra course diamond right now.
 
I just noticed that while both the extra coarse and coarse are somewhat pathetic, the medium stone seems to work ungodly fast.
I mean the difference between the supposedly coarse stones and this medium stone is very noticeable.
Maybe there's something wrong with my two stones there, but the medium works way faster.
If a regular medium works this fast, an extra coarse diamond must not take long at all!
 
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