Can't form burr or get good edge with Sharpmaker

postoak said:
Well, I wish we could see a close-up of your drawing. It looks like museum-class stuff to me.

I wound up with the knife sharper -- but not where it should be. It will sometimes slice-cut newspaper when the side of the paper is held vertical and a shallow slice angle is made. It wouldn't do that before. It won't come close to cutting hair. It is, of course, more than sharp enough for field dressing a deer.
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Thanks, I don't know about museum class, but maybe a well written graphic novel.... Who doesn't like to show their art?

Am largely self taught, and being a printer by trade I tend to use just four colors - yellow, cyan, magenta, and black, unless a greater gamut is needed for oranges, pinks, some greens.

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Thanks for posting that. I'm going to show it to some of my more artistically-inclined friends. (One cousin has a Phd in Art History.)
 
A little follow up. I decided to clean up the sides of the knife and found the Sharpmaker is good for this too. I just held the side of the knife against the rods. After working through the ultra-fine rods, I had a mirror finish. At times I took the rods out and laid them on the table edge up and ran my knife across them that way -- very fast.

After a couple of days of thinking about the knife, I decided to try one more thing. I went back through all the rods, but did 400 strokes with each one instead of the recommended 40. At the end of that I still had a knife that wouldn't cut arm hair. During a little pause in that action I took a 6" kitchen knife and went through all the rods with it, just 40 strokes per side, and it would cut hair when I was through.

I've contacted someone about sending off my knife to see if a professional can get it sharp.
 
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