GEC Sharpening

When reprofiling a new GEC, I never touch the edge/apex until the final honing on leather.
This leaves the bladeheight as unchanged by reprofiling as possible.
I usually just remove the "shoulders" and shape a convex area above the cuttingedge.
This decreases the cutting resistance and the blade "seems" sharper with the same edgebevel as the factoryedge.

Future maintenance is made on the finest grit flatstones I can find and honing on leather + green compound.

Regards
Mikael
 
Berickson47 said:
This was actually it’s third sharpening.
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That explains a lot. You shouldn’t need to remove much after the first reprofile. If you are having to grind away more, I’d have to think about how I was using the knife. I usually have to reprofile just once, then touch ups keep it real sharp for a long time. I use a gatco (similar to Lansky) on the 19 deg slot. After that, I touch up on a spyderco sharpmaker 40 deg set up (20 deg per side). Unless I abuse it, this lasts long times, easily touches up. Unless I abuse one or wait an exteneme amount of time, I rarely have to set it up in the gatco again. And I do this for every knife i own, regardless of size or blade material (save some really large blades I may use the 22 deg on gatco but that still works for micro bevel at the 40 on the sharpmaker).
 
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