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Chips and nicks in blade

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wfs29223

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Ok. I have a Spyderco Salt and a day or 2 ago I noticed some minor chips in the blade. Not huge but just enough to where I notice them and would like to get them out. My question is this I have seen posts where people are not liking the pull through sharpners because of the amount of metal they take off of a blade. But would this be ideal in this situation and when finish off with sharpening stone?
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I've removed similar small nicks by lightly running the edge of the blade over my fine Lansky diamond hone. I hold the hone in my hand as well as the knife.
Once the nick is gone I reprofile to finish.
This does not reduce the blade size, at least to my eyes.
I run the edge across the hone from heel to tip during each stroke.
 
Wfs you are spot on. Either remove the metal medium with a lansky or vice a fine bastard file into a vice and use it like a stone to "flatten" the edge to the shape you want, then de-burr with some 400+grit paper and resharpen with a stone. A lansky would be perfect for something as small as that. :thumbup::thumbup:
 
I think what it is just nervous about messing up the blade. I have seen bad things about pull through sharpners
 
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