Bizarre Sharpmaker behaviour

Ah, I see. So other than investing in a microscope, how do I know when (and how much/vigourously) to work on the other bevel?
 
Beats me. I do it all by feel and eyeball. Forty years of practice may help a little, too.;)
 
I would say just work gradually, slow, it's an aquired art.
Keep practising, you'll know. Less is always better, you'll get there.
Some folks use a sharpie to roughly mark the area to profile.
I like to use a small loupe sometimes to check progress, it's interesting.

After a while you should be able to pick up almost any knife and
make it better. Just a matter of how much time you have..
 
My experience with a fairly new SharpMaker while trying to reprofile an Endura was that the edges of the medium stones didn't have much bite until I used quite a bit of pressure and wore through the surface of the stone. At that point metal removal speeded up nicely and the edges stopped loading up quite so readily. I got the other edges to behave like that by abrading each edge with an unused area on the other stone.

Having now tried the DMT hone freehand, not only does it work about 20 times faster but the coarse/fine combo got my blades sharper than I've ever been able to do before. I am so stoked, I think I'll celebrate by getting a Perrin Street Beat and a DarkOps titanium ninja jock strap cup for when the wife finds out.
 
I'm not sure if this is allowed, or in the right section, but I'm wondering if I could ship my Stretch and Endura to one of you and pay you to sharpen it for me?

I'd cover the shipping costs both there and back again.

EDIT - I know I could send it to a professional, maybe even back to SpyderCo itself to resharpen, but to be honest I'd just feel more comfortable having one of you guys do it.
 
Aelius said:
I'm not sure if this is allowed, or in the right section, but I'm wondering if I could ship my Stretch and Endura to one of you and pay you to sharpen it for me?

I'd cover the shipping costs both there and back again.

EDIT - I know I could send it to a professional, maybe even back to SpyderCo itself to resharpen, but to be honest I'd just feel more comfortable having one of you guys do it.
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If you want to send them off, I highly recommend that you send them to Spyderco. They will put a wicked edge on them and handle the service professionally and quickly and you will be very happy with the results. The service is free, but add $5 for return shipping.

Don't send expensive knives to a stranger who contacts you via a post on the internet.
 
People send knives to each other all the time on this site, whether to sell or simply inspect.
 
Aelius said:
People send knives to each other all the time on this site, whether to sell or simply inspect.
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That's quite true and this is a fine community of great trustworthy people. At least 99.99% of us. Some even give stuff away to each other just because they are generous people.

It just seems to me that if you can get what you want from Spyderco for free and you can absolutely depend on the quality and timeliness of the service, why would you look elsewhere and take a chance, even a very tiny one?

But maybe that's just me. By all means, do as you think best. Sorry if I threw a wet rag on to an otherwise fine idea. Most likely it will work out great and you will make a friend in the process.
 
EDIT - I know I could send it to a professional, maybe even back to SpyderCo itself..
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Hate to see you throw in the towel, but Spyderco would end your frustration..
You are so close it seems though (with your sharpmaker)..

1) Cost to invest in a pair of sharpmaker diamond triangle rods for reprofiling.. $50.
2) Time to invest in reprofiling and sharpening your 2 knives.. 2-3 hours.
3) Satisfaction of learning to keep your knives sharp forever... Priceless.
 
440hard said:
Hate to see you throw in the towel, but Spyderco would end your frustration..
You are so close it seems though (with your sharpmaker)..

1) Cost to invest in a pair of sharpmaker diamond triangle rods for reprofiling.. $50.
2) Time to invest in reprofiling and sharpening your 2 knives.. 2-3 hours.
3) Satisfaction of learning to keep your knives sharp forever... Priceless.
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I'd love to do it myself, but I can't seem to do a damn thing with this, it's only lost its sharpness since I've worked on it. The flat is also scratched up from the fierce repetition of trying to reprofile.

And what's wrong with my current diamond triangle rods? Anyway, I'm using the grey ones, should I be using the diamond one? I... was under the impression that the diamond one was the finer stone meant for carefully honing an already sharp edge.
 
The SharpMaker comes with brown medium grit rods and white fine grit rods. All four are ceramic. Spyderco also makes a set of diamond coated rods that fit the SharpMaker base as well as a set of ultra-fine ceramic rods, both of which are sold seperately from the SharpMaker. Careful shopping will usually get you a set of the coarser diamond rods for $70-$80. Of course, you can get a pair of DMT bench hones for about that as well, but you lose the angle guidance of the SharpMaker.
 
yablanowitz said:
The SharpMaker comes with brown medium grit rods and white fine grit rods. All four are ceramic. Spyderco also makes a set of diamond coated rods that fit the SharpMaker base as well as a set of ultra-fine ceramic rods, both of which are sold seperately from the SharpMaker. Careful shopping will usually get you a set of the coarser diamond rods for $70-$80. Of course, you can get a pair of DMT bench hones for about that as well, but you lose the angle guidance of the SharpMaker.
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Unless you lay the DMT stone up against the sharpmaker rods... best of both worlds, as far as I'm concerned.
 
That should work fine with the DiaSharps, but I prefer the DuoSharps myself, and the thick bases on those don't fit between the rods on the SharpMaker very well. ;)
 
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