It Survived! A resurrected 4.1... Pics of the project.

Riz! said:
That means youbare doing one of or any combo of the following... pushing too hard, holdng the angle steeper than you need or using too flexible of strop. My best strop is 1/8 thick leather glued to a wooden board
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I now use a 2x4 under my strop. I think I was pushing to hard or not holding the edge angle right.
Im practicing a very light touch on my angled edges now so far so good lately. But Im not confident at stropping edges yet.
 
Flsurfer said:
I now use a 2x4 under my strop. I think I was pushing to hard or not holding the edge angle right.
Im practicing a very light touch on my angled edges now so far so good lately. But Im not confident at stropping edges yet.
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Use the Sharpie trick to get the angle right. And use the same setup (position of strop and sitting etc) many times till you get comfortable with it.

I don't even use a sharpie now, I use a white board marker.
 
Casinostocks said:
I never understood as to how so many people were into "convexing" their edges by hand on a straight honing surface unless that term is just being thrown around semantically! If I trust anyone on YT, it'd be Virtuovice to know what he's talking about as he's both an old hand at this with many tools at his disposal, plus he is a humble fella who does not cliam to know it all.
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Most were just shaving off the secondary v grind and calling it "convex" with .25" thick knives. Even that Virtuovice dude fell to the newb move of using too much pressure and rounding the tip! :D

Riz on the other hand did a great job resurrecting that blade!:thumbup:
 
I logged off of and deactivated my FB account a while back. Does anyone know if this dude is still in possession of and has used this knife?
 
Nice job Riz!! If Guy's not available I am going to send you my f'ed up blades!!!
 
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