Is the unevenness normal for a CRK? This was bought new by me and has never been touched. I was hoping I can just maintain the edge but not sure if that is possible. Should I just put the 220grit on 18 or 20 degrees and start all over?
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From what i've seen many CRK knives have edge angles that increase towards the point, sometimes quite a bit.
Based on footage of their sharpening process by hand on a belt this is the result of their sharpener lifting the blade too much when he approaches the point area, and sometimes i also see a lack of symmetry between the bevels on both sides of the blade.
As the knife owner then later tries to resharpen the knife in a clamped system this becomes very obvious.
After measuring the existing bevel angles all along the edge i resharpen Sebenza's etc freehand on Paper Wheels, so i can follow those changing bevels, and when the blade grinds are not too thick behind the edge i can even reprofile them a bit.
Examples are in the large Paper Wheels thread.
Based on footage of their sharpening process by hand on a belt this is the result of their sharpener lifting the blade too much when he approaches the point area, and sometimes i also see a lack of symmetry between the bevels on both sides of the blade.
As the knife owner then later tries to resharpen the knife in a clamped system this becomes very obvious.
After measuring the existing bevel angles all along the edge i resharpen Sebenza's etc freehand on Paper Wheels, so i can follow those changing bevels, and when the blade grinds are not too thick behind the edge i can even reprofile them a bit.
Examples are in the large Paper Wheels thread.