Favorite Method For Creating Cutting Bevel

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I have one of the DMT guided sharpeners with Extra Course, Course, and Fine plates. I don't use it much. To my eyes, it seems to place an awfully steep edge, even when I set it as low as I can. It has been a long time since I made precise measurements, but it just seems really steep.

Stropping on sandpaper/ thick leather/ mouse pad seems to take forever.

So after ignoring my India stone for a few years, I decided to give it a try again.

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It turns out I really liked it. The course side worked fast. I taped up the blade to prevent scratches, and went completely free handed. Since the flip side of my India stone is useless (I got Tite Bond II glue on it) I started out with the course side of the India, and then went to a fine diamond plate for finishing up the job.

I keep wondering if I could use my 2 X 42 grinder, just as a slack belt for placing that final bevel. I have not been bold enough to try it yet.

How do you place the final bevel on your freshly-created knives?
 
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I use a Norton Crystolon stone often, but most all the steels I use are the low alloy variety. Elmax and M4 get the 140 Atoma. I think two of the most under-rated (whatever that mean anyway) stones out there are the India and Crystolons.
 
Sometimes I use my grinder to put a quick edge on the blade, it depends on how big it is, then I go to a double sided oil stone; medium/fine. If its just a little blade or Im trying to drum up business at the market, I use a triple side coarse, med, fine stone.

Side note, is your stone glued to the holder or it just has glue on it? If it just has glue on it, use another stone or even sandpaper on a paint stirer and take it off.
 
Excellent idea to remove the glue. Thank you. The stone is not glued in; it just has some dried glue around the edges.
 
with an edge thickness of .015 and more I use a slow speed slack belt to rough in the final bevel, with less than .010 though I set it with a 150 grit nubatama bamboo stone
 
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