Mora Garberg Edge ........

[old4570]

Wow ! Looks like the Bur rolled over tearing the edge ...

The other side .. Here you can see the torn steel ..

Been cleaning up the edge with some 2000 grit diamond plate ( stone ) .
I really did hope that the damage would not be this bad ..
Brand new knife ....

 

[Alberta Ed]

I would start with a much coarser hone, 220-250 grit to establish the bevel angle you want, then move on to higher -- 2000 grit sounds very fine. I rarely go beyond 600 grit (DMT red) for general purpose cutting. I wouldn't call that factory edge damaged, though.

 

[old4570]

It needs a new edge ..
It wont slice paper cleanly , making edge retention testing a little iffy ..
I did want to test the factory edge (did) but it would not slice paper at the points off fubar .
I have cleaned the edge on 1000 & 2000 grit diamond plate till it slices paper ..

The other day I got my 600 grit plate and 3000 grit plate .. So now I have 600 / 1000 / 2000 / 3000 grit diamond plates ( stones ) .
So far I have 4 knives for 2023 and all but one had fubar edges ..
The Garberg is not a cheap knife , so I was a little surprised the edge was worse than a edge on a 511 .

+ These plates are not for Re Edging , but rather for gentle edge restoration . ( Gentle )

 

[Joezilla]

Is this the carbon steel or the 14c28 ?

 

[old4570]

I got the Carbon blade ..
Im going to hit the rope with it , but I have accumulated a few knives .. So there is a test que !
There is still a nick in the edge that catches paper right where it should not be ( will affect paper slice )
Been stropping ! But there is micro damage that could be sharpened out , but then it would no longer be a factory edge . ( Maybe the factory edge was FUBAR and that opportunity is already gone - test factory edge )
I will get around to the Carbon Garberg .