Edge Pro: help with the tip

[Lennyo3034]

I have an edge pro and am very happy with the results I get with it, with the exception of the tips of my knives. I always end up flattening the tips so there is no longer a nice sharp point. I know I spend more time on the tip with my course stones because that is the last place to develop a burr. Does anyone have advice on when I can do about this?

 

[-Lucky-]

Try not to completely pass over the tip of the knife with the stones to prevent rounding it. While sharpening down at the tip just use light pressure and make sure that the middle of the stone is reaching the very tip of your knife with each stroke. Spend a little more time on it to make sure you raise a burr.

If it is always the last place to raise a burr, try spending a little more time there during the beginning of each stone to balance out the lighter pressure.

Hope this helps, it's hard to explain with out doing it in front of you.

 

[Lennyo3034]

I think the next time I sharpen a knife, I'm going to use the 120 stone up until 1/4" away from tip. I would try to work up a burr on the tip until the 220 stone. Maybe that will do the trick.

 

[Skimo]

Muscle memory and practice, I used to round tips when I was learning, ground my spines to get the tip back and then matched as well as I could with sandpaper to reduce the visibility of my failures.

Now on users I go full speed and haven't had a jacked up tip in quite a while, nicer knives, I do go slower towards the tip and handle, tape everything up and get OCD about angle and scratch pattern if not going full polish.

Do what makes you happy.

 

[KNaB]

Try not to completely pass over the tip of the knife with the stones to prevent rounding it. While sharpening down at the tip just use light pressure and make sure that the middle of the stone is reaching the very tip of your knife with each stroke. Spend a little more time on it to make sure you raise a burr.

If it is always the last place to raise a burr, try spending a little more time there during the beginning of each stone to balance out the lighter pressure.

Hope this helps, it's hard to explain with out doing it in front of you.

This will do it. Just make sure your stroke ends with the stone still on the tip.

 

[Lennyo3034]

This will do it. Just make sure your stroke ends with the stone still on the tip.

This I did not know, I was actually stroking it off the tip completely. Using the DMT aligner, I would run it off the tip completely and it kept the tips intact. I think I'm going to practice on some lesser knives before going to my good ones.