Knife needs tuneup

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Kellster

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My Pinnacle is about 6 months old, hasn't cut anything more serious than paper, cardboard, plastic (those bubble packs can be tough!). Still has the factory edge, hasn't touched a stone yet, and has a little vertical and horizontal play (my own fault for flicking and playing with the pivot screw). I wanted to reprofile it ala Joe's famous faq, and I bought a Sharpmaker, and a DMT course whetstone, and had great intentions, but don't have: enough patience, confidence, and time mostly. It is my primary carry outside of work, (until my Starmate comes anyday now). I know, a lot of you are going to say do it yourself, you need to know how to sharpen your own stuff, etc. I guess there are 2 other choices, send it to BM, or have one of the expert members here do it, if anyone was willing. I'm not too picky, but would like not to scratch the hell out the blade. Once reprofiled, I'd touch it up after that, I have a Razor's Edge smooth steel and a strop. BTW, I prefer a slicing plain edge, in satin, on all my knives. Call me boring.
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A knife is by default a tool, it's only a weapon when a human chooses to make it so.

 
The reprofiling does not need to be done all at once. You simple back bevel for awhile and then put the edge bevel on. You repeat this when it needs to be sharpened and eventually the back bevel will be thin enough.

-Cliff
 
Use a marker to color in the bevel and do a pass on the obtuse angle setting on the Sharpmaker. If this hits the edge then you are set. However if it does not then you need to take another step. Prop something under the Sharpmaker on one side so that one of the sticks is at a bevel angle wide enough so that a stroke on it will hit the edge. Once this is done sharpen the very edge. This should be very quick, just a few strokes (unless you have fractured the edge apart).

Now you have the edge touched up and it should be very sharp. You can continue, whenever you feel like it to use the most acute angle on the Sharpmaker to back-bevel the edge, thinning it out. Unless you are very skilled at this, odds are you might accidently hit the edge and thus you will want to go back, prop the Sharpmaker up again and swipe the blade a few times.

-Cliff


[This message has been edited by Cliff Stamp (edited 04-03-2000).]
 
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