Oh boy. Looks like I had a more mind numbing day yesterday than I had realized.
Lets start again for those who care about the little colored bands on the Edge Pro :
After fooling around with the angle gauge I knew I had effected the edges a little bit on the knives (the edge is still harder than the gauge but . . .).
So I got out of bed with the idea to touch up the edges and take another look at the little bands. Something didn't sound right.
I stared with the 220 Shapton Glass . . . just to be "sure" . . . and I am still getting this factory edge adapted to the Edge Pro . . . OK it is just the way I sharpen (as opposed to touch up) and the edge, I felt had a bit of stress from banging into the gauge. Didn't hurt to cut out some of that stressed steel with the 220.
This is when I discovered it;
I hadn't included the thickness of the stone when I looked at the Edge Pro last night to report the setting that didn't distort the bevel (the guide block was loose on the post and was sitting down on the stop collar.
Oh well.
I had a glass of orange juice for breakfast and started in. I'm off today and slept in (so this might be at least a little more accurate info wise).
With the stone thickness added to the setting the top of the guide block is half way to the blue line. The blue line is the highest line / widest sharpening angle. This is for lumber jacks or stone masons or some such. All I know is it depresses me any time I get any where near it to sharpen a knife. Must have been why I had blotted it from my mind last night.
The Blue Line ! The BLUE Line !? The BLUE LINE ! ! ! ! ? ? ?
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Hmmm surprised me when I was able to get this obtuse near lumber jack edge to hang on the skin of the apple. Probably wouldn't have if I had stropped it. Any body want to prove me wrong ? Free hand strop on leather now no cheating using wood in the Edge Pro.
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At any rate it was sharp enough to subdue this apple for . . . lunch. Where does the time go when one is having fun ? ! Note the precision surgery on the apple's core !
Oh yah baby !
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I'm particularly ravenous so may as well pull out all the stops and add blue berry yogurt. No . . . that is NOT a chocolate chip cookie. I have no idea what that is or how it got there; I will have to investigate that when the time comes.
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No strops were disturbed in the performance of this feat of sharpening magic.
Debured with just a few edge leading strokes; very lightly, very few. Final polish and edge refinement done by letting the 4,000 Shapton glass stone load up, bottom stone in this photo . . . I let it get all built up with black swarf in the stone then rinsed it off but didn't clean the pores. Acts a bit finer that way.
Before that the weakish edge was tree topping. After deburing on the stone as described it fell back to only hair whittling.

But hey . . . what do you want . . . it's a silly wide angle factory angled edge.
Cuts apples though
PS: notice how nice and clean the natural nagura stone got that black pore clogged 4,000 !
(I didn't use it on the others that still show some swarf in the pores.)
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