Wowbagger
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Shades of my first S110V blade / sharpening adventures with S110V . . . before I finally learned that diamonds are the way to go with this high vanadium alloy.
I sharpened the S30V of the Para2 Camo DLC with my Edge Pro using Shapton Glass stones from 220 to 4,000 in several increments. Hair whittling and ready for at least a week at work.
Well . . . one day and one cut trimming a little bit of the hard rubber and I had edge damage reminiscent of my first experiences using the Glass stones on the S110V.
Hmmmmm
Before that I had just touched up the blade edge a tiny bit with the Spyderco Ultra Fine triangle and debured with the Aligner 8,000 stone shown below (both hand held) but had not done any real sharpening to it and it went quite a while, a week or more, doing similar work and the degradation to the edge was quick at first in that it lost some shave sharp but then it just kept cutting really well for the longest time and I was quite pleased and even surprised with the performance.
Finally it got to where it was loosing precision and control in the trimming operations and I retired it until I could sharpen it.
So
to what I am really focusing on tonight and that is :
I touched up the edge using diamonds in the Edge Pro; specifically the 1200 and the 8,000 diamond stones from my Aligner kit. I double back taped them to the glass-on-aluminum-plate from Edge Pro for using sharpening films.
I raised the angle the minimum amount to be sure I was right down on the very apex and did the minimum of strokes to get the kind of crumbled edge back to a nice apex. The damage was microscopic but was enough that areas of the edge would not catch on my nail and I could feel roughness when drawing the edge into my nail.
There was zero bur back then with the Glass stones when I stopped sharpening and tonight when I stopped sharpening there was just the odd little bit of microscopic bur metal hairs here and there with nice swaths of totally debured edge between . . . off the 8,000 (flesh colored) diamond plate this time. Hair whittling both times (before with the Shapton Glass and now with the Aligner stones.
We will see in the next day or so how it does with more hard rubber trimming.
I predict this latest diamond sharpened edge will be markedly more durable.
and a photo of the Aligner stones double back taped to the Edge Pro blank plate :
I sharpened the S30V of the Para2 Camo DLC with my Edge Pro using Shapton Glass stones from 220 to 4,000 in several increments. Hair whittling and ready for at least a week at work.
Well . . . one day and one cut trimming a little bit of the hard rubber and I had edge damage reminiscent of my first experiences using the Glass stones on the S110V.
Hmmmmm
Before that I had just touched up the blade edge a tiny bit with the Spyderco Ultra Fine triangle and debured with the Aligner 8,000 stone shown below (both hand held) but had not done any real sharpening to it and it went quite a while, a week or more, doing similar work and the degradation to the edge was quick at first in that it lost some shave sharp but then it just kept cutting really well for the longest time and I was quite pleased and even surprised with the performance.
Finally it got to where it was loosing precision and control in the trimming operations and I retired it until I could sharpen it.
So
to what I am really focusing on tonight and that is :
I touched up the edge using diamonds in the Edge Pro; specifically the 1200 and the 8,000 diamond stones from my Aligner kit. I double back taped them to the glass-on-aluminum-plate from Edge Pro for using sharpening films.
I raised the angle the minimum amount to be sure I was right down on the very apex and did the minimum of strokes to get the kind of crumbled edge back to a nice apex. The damage was microscopic but was enough that areas of the edge would not catch on my nail and I could feel roughness when drawing the edge into my nail.
There was zero bur back then with the Glass stones when I stopped sharpening and tonight when I stopped sharpening there was just the odd little bit of microscopic bur metal hairs here and there with nice swaths of totally debured edge between . . . off the 8,000 (flesh colored) diamond plate this time. Hair whittling both times (before with the Shapton Glass and now with the Aligner stones.
We will see in the next day or so how it does with more hard rubber trimming.
I predict this latest diamond sharpened edge will be markedly more durable.
and a photo of the Aligner stones double back taped to the Edge Pro blank plate :
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