Hello new guy with sharpening

[bgentry]

In that case, I'm guessing you could use work on the rest of the blade. Are you developing a burr along the *entire* length of the edge? if not, parts of the edge probably need work. This is a pretty common issue and, I'm not embarrassed to say, was a problem for me for YEARS, even when I thought I was really good at sharpening.

Brian.

 

[bucketstove]

In that case, I'm guessing you could use work on the rest of the blade. Are you developing a burr along the *entire* length of the edge? if not, parts of the edge probably need work. This is a pretty common issue and, I'm not embarrassed to say, was a problem for me for YEARS, even when I thought I was really good at sharpening.

Brian.

For me its not a problem for long, just keep grind the knife until the curve is gone

 

[Chris "Anagarika"]

Chris, I remember that blunt cut said he used the USA knife maker compound, a coarser white compound, likely in the 1200 grit range. I have never seen any analysis of its abrasive size. So the Autosol that you mentioned, is that a coarser type polisher too? 1200 grit, approx. 10 micron or so?

Andy,

Not very sure. Bluntcut's white is more aggressive, though Autosol have been giving me adequate result, i.e. for low carbide steel such as 8Cr.

 

[AntDog]

8cr13mov is easy to get sharp. It's pretty easy to get screaming sharp for me. You've just got to have good equipment and solid technique. I saw a guy on here a while back who could get a hair whittling edge with a Spyderco double stuff stone and a strop with I believe 1200 grit compound.
Also, just wanted to tell you, it's ok if it won't treetop hairs. Of course, that's a level of sharpness that ALL of us knife knuts would love to achieve, but it's really not necessary. Like HeavyHanded said, (paraphrasing) practice on a knife you don't really care about so you don't wind up taking YEARS worth of perfectly sharp usable edge off of a knife you like.

 

[Coondog27]

Haha I know its not a needed level, but if you can have the best, why not go for it. Right? I wanted to give it a shot and see. I learned that I may not be raising a consistent burr along the entire edge, and that I need to go to finer stones/strop.