I have a HK Mini Entourage and it lost its edge and i've been trying to sharpen this bitch for a while now, and I just cant seem to do it. It uses 440C Steel, I recently bought the Spiderco Sharpmaker and spent a while sharpening with it and it just wont make a edge, can't even cut paper. Any suggestions?
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Knife wont sharpen!
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Spyderco sharpmakers are not very good at really redoing the edge on your knives... really more for regular maintenance on your edge. Get a decent benchstone (I like DMT) that will remove steel much quicker, or take it to a local sharpener.
If your edge really isn't that bad, perhaps the knife came with a steeper than 20 degree bevel, which is as steep as the sharpmaker allows. Try just putting the stones in the slots on the bottom of the case and using it like a traditional stone. Good luck.
If your edge really isn't that bad, perhaps the knife came with a steeper than 20 degree bevel, which is as steep as the sharpmaker allows. Try just putting the stones in the slots on the bottom of the case and using it like a traditional stone. Good luck.
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get a black sharpie and color the edge - then run it on your sharpmaker a couple of passes to see if you're actually taking metal off all the way to the edge.
if you are, then try stropping it a bunch -- you may just have a really badly folded burr and stropping will clear that off.
If you don't have a leather strop handy, a sheet of cardboard will work.
if you are, then try stropping it a bunch -- you may just have a really badly folded burr and stropping will clear that off.
If you don't have a leather strop handy, a sheet of cardboard will work.
Like the others said, you're probably not hitting the edge with the sharpmaker (confirm with sharpie trick described above). You could tilt the blade until you hit the edge (again, using the sharpie trick), or (better) reprofile the edge to a more acute angle (will take forever to do on the sharpmaker).
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I would suggest getting some automotive sand paper from either Wal-Mart or a local Autoparts store's bodywork section. I would start with a fairly coarse grit even as low as 120 if they have it, but 320-400 would also be an improvement. The abrasive agent should be Silicon Carbide (SiC) and it should be black in color. If you wrap the paper around your triangle rods and secure it with a binder clip (alligator clip) so that two flat sides of the triangle are facing each other, you should be able to reprofile much faster than with the original brown/gray rods. Once your paper is loosing its "bite" into the steel, just move to a fresh part of the paper. This combined with the Sharpie marker trick (search youtube for a visual aid for how to do the trick) will greatly improve your success. I encourage you not to give up and have someone else sharpen your knife for you. You can do it, and it should not take nearly as long as it had previously been taking before the SiC paper. You can do it!!! Let us know what you choose to do and how it comes out.
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Forgot to mention, stay on the sand paper until you either develop a burr (which should be large and visible at the suggested grit) or until you no longer see light reflecting off the edge, i.e. you "set" the bevel. Then you can progress to the regular grits of the Sharpmaker kit.
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