Just not getting hair whittling edges with edge pro.

What steel is your leek? If it is not Sandvik try one of the Sanvik steels they are more fine grained than say S30V. But then again I put a hair witling edge on my Case Stockman CV by free hand sharpening on DMT'd fine and extra fine and then stroping on stiff strop with grey Dico's compound and then stroping on loose leather belt with Flitz polish and pulling hard on the belt.

I think you are missing this last step. Is it the end all I don't know. For me it is. Note I have the Edge Pro the profecional one. When I bougt it I didn't know anything about stroping and was and still is my quaranty that I can get a wiked edge any time since then I focus on free sharpening you can get much more sutisfaction when you achieve a great edge in a non sub helped way get your self a pair or three DMT's.
I have also tryed various media like the top of the car window and cardboard and I could manage to make my friends dull and very rusted Opinel pruner blade shaving sharp. Now that was satisfaction. All I can say is that we loughed in disbelieve in the view of the flying hair

All I can say is give power to your hands and then you will be able to sharpen a blade without the proper tools and have greater satisfactions with your achievements

Lefteris
 
I just re-read this from the beginning. So you can pushcut flimsy phonebook or newspaper? I've got news for you. that takes at least as sharp an edge. If you are cutting paper like that and kind of cutting TP, your edge is not the problem. Do you have really fine blond hair? That's tough to cut compared to thick brunette hair. How about eyebrow hair of tummy hair? Have you tried those? sounds to me like it's your hair splitting technique that needs work. I have fine blond hair. I have to use magnification to see what I'm doing, but I've split hairs almost 1/2" when I can see what's going on.
 
grizzled gizzard said:
I just re-read this from the beginning. So you can pushcut flimsy phonebook or newspaper? I've got news for you. that takes at least as sharp an edge. If you are cutting paper like that and kind of cutting TP, your edge is not the problem. Do you have really fine blond hair? That's tough to cut compared to thick brunette hair. How about eyebrow hair of tummy hair? Have you tried those? sounds to me like it's your hair splitting technique that needs work. I have fine blond hair. I have to use magnification to see what I'm doing, but I've split hairs almost 1/2" when I can see what's going on.
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I can push cut phone book and newspaper all day long. I have brown hair but it's not particularly thick.

So you're saying I should be happy with the level of sharpness I'm getting?
 
CrimsonTideShooter said:
I can push cut phone book and newspaper all day long. I have brown hair but it's not particularly thick.

So you're saying I should be happy with the level of sharpness I'm getting?
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If you can do that then you should be Splitting hair too.
 
it really depends on the hair, I found my hair was 4X as thick as a blonde girl's hair was with a micrometer.
 
Ha! I found the same thing! All hair is not created equal.

OP- Yes, your knives are sharp, as long as you are pushcutting 90* to the bias of the paper, which is pretty easy to determine. One way it cuts easy, and the other way it doesn't.

Sounds like you just need to figure out how to split hairs. I hold my fine hair between thumb and forefinger and just keep practicing till it's easy for you.
 
I got my first true TP slicing edge tonight!!! The American lawman is now the sharpest knife I own. I hope I can duplicate whatever it is that made this knife so sharp!


The only thing I can think of is that I raised the bar a degree or two after polishing and "stropped" the edge with an edge trailing motion as the last step. Do y'all think this made a difference?
 
CrimsonTideShooter said:
I got my first true TP slicing edge tonight!!! The American lawman is now the sharpest knife I own. I hope I can duplicate whatever it is that made this knife so sharp!


The only thing I can think of is that I raised the bar a degree or two after polishing and "stropped" the edge with an edge trailing motion as the last step. Do y'all think this made a difference?
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Yup. You forced the tapes to hit the edge and not just "the bevel and maybe the edge". It sounds like you got the concept down, and I gotta say you seem to have caught on a lot faster than I did so I'm a bit jealous. Congrats and keep up the good work :D
 
CrimsonTideShooter said:
I got my first true TP slicing edge tonight!!! The American lawman is now the sharpest knife I own. I hope I can duplicate whatever it is that made this knife so sharp!


The only thing I can think of is that I raised the bar a degree or two after polishing and "stropped" the edge with an edge trailing motion as the last step. Do y'all think this made a difference?
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Congratulations! I know that is was worth the effort and the time. :D
 
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