Hair Whittling Goodness

Sadden

Sadden

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So I have been carrying this Maestro Wu BO1 for a couple weeks now. Really happy with the F&F , I gave it a 1200 Atoma Edge just for carrying around. Over the past two days I've been tinkering with it , taking it well beyond that (currently its sitting at 160,000 grit..)

As she came


And now...


Fun stuff!
 
Very nice looking knife. You should be impressed with that edge. What angle did you finish up with?
 
Sigh, and I feel good just to have a sharp, durable edge that will shave arm hair. Let alone getting hair whittling sharp. How on earth do you even tell when there is a burr?
 
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Squashfan said:
Sigh, and I feel good just to have a sharp, durable edge that will shave arm hair. Let alone getting hair whittling sharp. How on earth do you even tell when there is a burr?
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Microscope , once your beyond light microscopy it gets challenging. Whittling hair on one side and not the other is a good indicator. But at this level of refinement you don't work one side too much and raise a burr in the first place. Alternating strokes with as little weight as possible are the key.
 
Sadden said:
Microscope , once your beyond light microscopy it gets challenging. Whittling hair on one side and not the other is a good indicator. But at this level of refinement you don't work one side too much and raise a burr in the first place. Alternating strokes with as little weight as possible are the key.
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Good answer. Wouldn't that technique work with coarser stones too? By coarser I mean something like a Norton India. As a way to get the most out of a given grit, no matter how coarse. I can get the burr small but I haven't quite been able to get a really sharp, durable edge right off of the stone. Still to much burr that has to be stropped off. More practice needed, I guess.
 
Well , with some practic you should be able to scrape off some armhair , even with something as coarse as the Atoma 140. The secret is to use light pressure and abrade the burr in place without flipflopping it over and over.

Use extremely light edge leading strokes on the burr side until you feel it abraded off , feedback will change. Then swap to alternating single pass edge leading strokes (again extremely light pressure , the blade should barely be touching the stone here) , and watch what happens after a few of those :)
 
Sadden said:
Well , with some practic you should be able to scrape off some armhair , even with something as coarse as the Atoma 140. The secret is to use light pressure and abrade the burr in place without flipflopping it over and over.

Use extremely light edge leading strokes on the burr side until you feel it abraded off , feedback will change. Then swap to alternating single pass edge leading strokes (again extremely light pressure , the blade should barely be touching the stone here) , and watch what happens after a few of those :)
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Best sharpening explanation and in under three sentences! I finish like this on a 600 grit DMT and get hair whittling edges just the same way.

I beleive that most people would be astounded by the level of refinment they can work out using just one single grit, even those that seem relatively coarse.
 
Some of the scariestedges Ive hadcame off a Norton coarse India, King and Norton 220 waterstone, or my Norton Economy coarse stone. Drop the edge angle to 7 or 8 degrees and finish on the coarsest stone you have. Be careful and it will whittle hair, at least beard hair, and maybe head hair. Those are the most frightening to me.
 
Hello JayJay , I use an edge pro professional with a large (and ever growing it seems) assortment of aftermarket stones , strops and compounds.


On this particular knife I started off with Atoma Diamond Plates (140-1200) , Shapton Pro Stones (220 - 30,000) and Polycrystalline loaded Nanocloth strops (1u - 0.1u)
 
I wanted the variability of non fixed system , but still wanted a high quality guided system. Plus I can do some neat tricks with the EPP.
 
me2 said:
Some of the scariestedges Ive hadcame off a Norton coarse India, King and Norton 220 waterstone, or my Norton Economy coarse stone. Drop the edge angle to 7 or 8 degrees and finish on the coarsest stone you have. Be careful and it will whittle hair, at least beard hair, and maybe head hair. Those are the most frightening to me.
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the reason why they're scary is because you know they will bite deep through clothes and all if you slip!

great edge btw Sadden!
 
me2 said:
Some of the scariestedges Ive hadcame off a Norton coarse India, King and Norton 220 waterstone, or my Norton Economy coarse stone. Drop the edge angle to 7 or 8 degrees and finish on the coarsest stone you have. Be careful and it will whittle hair, at least beard hair, and maybe head hair. Those are the most frightening to me.
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the reason why they're scary is because you know they will bite deep through clothes and all if you slip!

great edge btw Sadden!
 
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