help with my edgepro

[stitchawl]

Thanks for the compliment Stitch, I've been working with leather for about 13 years now. Most of my stuff is more heavily tooled as that's what I enjoy doing the most. I just used a stitching groover with an edge guide to get my stitches in a straight line. By the sound of your name, you must do a little leatherwork too.

I do. Quite a bit for many years. But I often wind up braiding my edges with a Mexican Braid to cover up the fact that my stitching is so bad. I use a groover with and adjustable spacer, stitch spacers, pre-awl my stitch holes with a razor sharp diamond-shaped awl, always do double needle saddle stitching, (I don't care for the automatic stitch awl thing with a spool on it,) but no matter what I do, my stitches 'usually' look like Frankenstein's forehead!
This is one of the better (luckier?) ones; a left-handed skiving knife that I made from 1095 steel, originally sharpened using the Edgepro, and now maintain with just strops.

Hmmmmmmmm that's really strange as I've bought several items from him (HandAmerican) and all have been top notch. What did he nick you for yours?

-Dan

Price? Not a clue. I'm not even certain where I got mine from! It surely isn't the quality of other HandAmerican products. In fact, there is NO quality about it! It's just a hardened steel stick roughly chopped off from a longer rod. Works great. Looks like crap. When I have company over and am cooking for them, I use my glass rod instead...

Stitchawl

 

[sasafrass]

I do. Quite a bit for many years. But I often wind up braiding my edges with a Mexican Braid to cover up the fact that my stitching is so bad.

Judging by your little case, your stitches look excellent to me. That's a very nice case and I really like the braided strap around it. I sometimes do a Mexican Braid on my edges, but nothing like that strap. It really sets the case off. Also, that's a cool little skiving knife!

I use a groover with and adjustable spacer, stitch spacers, pre-awl my stitch holes with a razor sharp diamond-shaped awl, always do double needle saddle stitching, (I don't care for the automatic stitch awl thing with a spool on it,) but no matter what I do, my stitches 'usually' look like Frankenstein's forehead!

All my stitching is done with a double needle saddle stitch. the "Awl for all" as it's called, is a joke as far as I'm concerned.

This is one of the better (luckier?) ones; a left-handed skiving knife that I made from 1095 steel, originally sharpened using the Edgepro, and now maintain with just strops.

Just shows how versatile the EdgePro is. I've even used it to sharpen my headknives. Like you, I just hit the edge on a strop loaded with white rouge before each use and it never gets dull.

-Dan

 

[MORIMOTOM]

thx for all the edge pro tips gents!!!

ive been using mine for a couple years, and im still learning. i had never used water on any of the stones, just the tapes. tried it today, and what a difference!!

my question: for what specific purpose should the 3000 grit diamond tape be used, if any?

i bought one, but it feel grittier than the 2500 tape, so i haven't used it. and it came by itself, so don't want to ruin it through improper application.

 

[sasafrass]

thx for all the edge pro tips gents!!!

ive been using mine for a couple years, and im still learning. i had never used water on any of the stones, just the tapes. tried it today, and what a difference!!

Ruben, Are you saying that you've only tried to sharpen with dry stones??? As you've probably discovered, the stones cut much more effectively when wet. In fact, it must have taken you forever to get an edge with them dry! One word of advice. When you sharpen, you'll find that you'll build up a slurry on the stone. This slurry is very abrasive and will get between your blade and the table. When you move your blade around this slurry will make fine, and very visible scratches on the blade, or in the case of black coated blades, even remove the coating. Therefore, to prevent this from happening you will probably want to tape your blade with masking tape (I use the blue painters tape] leaving only the the edge uncovered. I also tape the table from the end of the guide slot to the end of the table to prevent excess wear to the table.

As for the diamond tape, I can't help you. All I've ever used are the standard 2000 - 4000 grit tapes and they've always been more than adequate for what I've wanted to achieve. I would think that a 3000 grit diamond tape would be somewhat more abrasive than a standard 3000 grit tape.

So Ruben, knock yourself out with your "new" sharpening system and don't forget the water.

-Dan

 

[MORIMOTOM]

dan,

yeah, id been using the stones dry. i had thought the instructions only said to use water on the tapes. it worked, but is much better with water on the stones.

btw, im not ruben. ruben died in february.


thx again for the tips!

 

[sasafrass]

Morimotom,

Sorry for the faux pas. My mistake. That'll teach me to pay little closer attention when I post to a thread. Again, I apopogize.

-Dan

 

[MORIMOTOM]

Morimotom,

Sorry for the faux pas. My mistake. That'll teach me to pay little closer attention when I post to a thread. Again, I apopogize.

-Dan

not at all.

for future reference, EOW means "end of watch". in common terms, it refers to the time an officer ends their shift. for example, my EOW is 2300 hours.

however, when a date is given, it denotes when the officer died.


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