Jig To Get Perfect Use From SharpMaker

[NRA]

MadRookie has a nice arm setup with a heim joint for his edge pro. Good luck and enjoy the chase for nice bevels its a fun road.

If I go that route, I loose my mount for an Angle Cube.

I will build a joint with a platform for an Angle Cube.

 

[Binalith]

keep up the good work NRA.

I can't imagine replying to someone showing me the quality results of hard work and creative thought by suggesting they try something completely different.

If it's off topic suggestions you want to make consider starting your own thread.

 

[Cynic2701]

Now that I'm thinking about it, Lagrangian had some excellent posts in these two threads on the attempt to get improve "jig" systems:

http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/s...-of-Guided-Rod-Sharpeners?highlight=kinematic

In this one, the discussion of rigidity is of particular interest:

http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/s...rue-flatness-of-diamond-hones?highlight=rigid

 

[NRA]

Those are amazing links!

 

[NRA]

keep up the good work NRA.

I can't imagine replying to someone showing me the quality results of hard work and creative thought by suggesting they try something completely different.

If it's off topic suggestions you want to make consider starting your own thread.

He meant no harm. He is just trying to figure out what I am doing, the same thing I am trying to figure out.

I think I am in my declining years, and I am fixated on sharpening, to help me forget the water is over the deck chairs. We hear the band playing, and think all is OK.

 

[Cynic2701]

In another thread Cynic challenged me to try this on a wider bevel.


I took your challenge, grabbed a new knife, and went to work. The angle was 25 on each side.

Profiled it to 13.25 each side with the Diamond SharpMaker rods. This is the max angle I can do with this set-up or it rubs my jaws on the KME.

This is the results, no stropping. Just SharpMaker ceramics.


Before

During (notice how all the traffic on the rod is placed in the center? This is not possible to get this perfect angle of attack freehand) IMHO

After

How did you manage to do it in such a short time? The quickest I've ever been was with a BM 940 factory to the picture above in about 45 minutes. I used the Spyderco rods like a file, and I'm not sure I could move my hands any quicker without marking up the side of the knife.

 

[NRA]

That is about how much time I took. When I started it was going on midnight, and when I was done, it was less than an hour later, but I am unsure exactly how many minutes.

I would say, I did about 1000 strokes total, give or take.

Looking at the tip, I was too gentle, I still have steel, that needs to come off. One side I never raised a bur.

 

[NRA]

I have chosen the base to move my KME jaw assembly to. The granite base is 8 x 6 x 2 with a 10" rise on the vertical bar. Adjustment on the height has a micro dial, so I can get the exact angle I want,

Will post pics when I get it in, and have the assembly finished.

 

[cbwx34]

I like any knife that holds an edge, and looks sweet. This one works.

Here you see blended three knife sharpening systems.

KME, Edge Pro (clone) and SharpMaker. Taking the best of these three offerings, and making one unit, does have advantages.

Over the next few weeks, I will work at tweaking the fixtures that bond these sharpeners together, into something that looks like it did not come from the movie Deliverance.

I gotta say, if you have both an EP and SM, (and many here probably do), even without the KME part, this looks like a pretty good idea.

I'm guessing you could rotate the stones and use the corners on serrations if you wanted?

 

[NRA]

I gotta say, if you have both an EP and SM, (and many here probably do), even without the KME part, this looks like a pretty good idea.

I'm guessing you could rotate the stones and use the corners on serrations if you wanted?

Yes, and sharpen Kris blades.

 

[harivney]

I can't imagine a mental picture of how edge pro rod/stone and KME jaws intersect with jaws attached to this. Can you provide a hand drawn image to illustrate what it looks like as you wait for it to arrive?

I have chosen the base to move my KME jaw assembly to. The granite base is 8 x 6 x 2 with a 10" rise on the vertical bar. Adjustment on the height has a micro dial, so I can get the exact angle I want,

Will post pics when I get it in, and have the assembly finished.

 

[NRA]

Enough parts hit Tuesday, that I should be able to post an image.

One advancement I will be doing, is Ron has us turning the jaws under spring tension, causing wear to erode metal parts . I am afraid after thousands of turns, the jaws will be worn out. I have figured out a way to rotate the jaws with no spring pressure.