Does your blade edge have a memory?

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This is a topic I wanted to talk about for a while ,so here it is ,I just sharpened my knife and tested it against my finger nail(this is my go to method for testing sharpness) it caught nicely on one side but was slipping a little when I flipped it to the other side ,so i aligned it using my fine ceramic stone and I got perfect aligned (or so I thought) catching on both sides on my nail-FFW an hour(didn't use the knife at all) came back and its slipping against my nail on one side again,so I stropped a few times on the side that was catching and we are back to perfect alignment (vg-10 steel) just wondering if any of you fellows have had a similar experience??
 
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  • Think of an edge as a living thing that comes and goes, born, get's old, is reborn.
I do strop to deburr after I use a coarse stone
 
Thats what I thought initially but I couldn't see it...there probably was a burr my eyes are not near as good as they used to be...thanks for the insights and comments
 
Not all the way deburred. I usually run the edge through a soft piece of wood before stropping to help knock off any burr, that helps a lot. Sometimes the strop still wants to push the burr back and forth.
 
My edge remembers every time I’ve cut wire, scraped a gasket and failed to wipe it off after food prep. Fortunately, it forgives my sins and returns to sharpness when I hone it.

Inanimate objects hate it when we anthropo-morphise them...

Parker
 
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