Hinderer XM-18 on the Wicked Edge sharpener

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This is the Hinderer XM-18 from a fellow forum member.
The request was to find a good balance between usefulness & esthetics; if possible to create a new edge that would cut well (with an edge angle fitting a strong tactical folder like the XM) while at the same time keeping the bevel width within limits.

The edge was first reprofiled to an even 35 degrees inclusive with diamond stones 200, 400 & 600, and then refined with SiC wet & dry paper 800, 1000, 1500 and 2000 taped to the diamond stones.
The resulting edge was then somewhat polished with 6 micron diamond paste (a tiny dab of paste on the back of wet & dry paper which was then taped to the 600 grit stones)


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Looks great.
I'm just getting started trying to learn how to put a decent edge on a blade and these kinds of threads make me so jealous.
One day, with lots of practice hopefully I'll get there.
Thanks for sharing the photos.
 
Wow, that came out very nicely indeed! Bonus points for using sandpaper as your higher-grit abrasives. Shows what you can do at the high end without thousands of dollars in waterstones if you need to. :)
 
Komitadjie said:
Wow, that came out very nicely indeed! Bonus points for using sandpaper as your higher-grit abrasives. Shows what you can do at the high end without thousands of dollars in waterstones if you need to. :)
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Ditto.

There was a time, when I had doubts about how effective the sandpaper could be. But I've learned different in the last couple of years. Works great, when intelligently applied, and is adaptable to virtually any system, tool or task, as this thread has shown.

Nice work, kwackster! :thumbup:
 
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