Help sharpening Busse basic 3

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GiantDave

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Hello all! First time poster. Hope someone can assist me.
First the how and why---(this is NOT made up by the way)---My sister bought a new, old house and started painting the walls and such. After a few weeks, she started to clean up the paint splatter on the floors---paint is rock hard by now. She "borrows" (without my knowledge) my Busse basic 3 and scrapes the hardwood floors and then scrapes the concrete garage floor. The reason she borrowed it was that the grip was "comfortable". I nearly blew up.
This knife has the symetrical edge and is one of the early INFI's. The edge is very worn down (bet Busse never gave it a croncrete scape test). I dont know the edge angles and am not very good with stones. I dont want to take it to a knife sharpener for fear of them ruining the symetrical edge. Im willing to get an Edge Pro if anyone thinks it will bring back the proper edge.
Thanks for any help.
 
Those edges were designed to be hone essentially on the flat side and only rework the convex side after extensive sharpening as necessary. If you want to keep the origional profile then just sharpen the flat side until the edge gets sharp and can slice paper readily and then spend some time on a strop loaded with 0.5 chromium/aluminum oxide buffing compound (big green bar found in any hardware store) or better such as boron carbide or diamond paste.

-Cliff
 
Thanks for the reply, Cliff. Thats the problem I have--the convex side is damaged from being scraped against congrete for a few hours. Should I have it re-profiled? Ill do a search here for redressing convex blades.
 
The convex bevel is wide enough that it would take significant damage to really effect it, meaning that you could see significant deformation at arm's length. It isn't a big issue to hone both sides of the bevel if this is desired. There have been several threads here as of late on sharpening convex bevels freehand.

-Cliff
 
You could send it back to Jerry and Co. for a factory sharpening, methinks.
 
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