I've used a sharpmaker for years and get on really well with it but since buying ka-bars and recently a BK2 I've noticed it's not sharpening the tips of the blade, I've done the trick with a sharpy marker pen and on one side there is still ink on the edge.
I'm not sure if I done the right thing but I placed my course bench stone against the sharp makers stone to get the right 20 degree angle and kept going until the ink had disappeared and a slight bur could be felt on the opposite side , once done I then sharpened both sides with the sharpmakers fine stones.
Reapplying the sharpie again and testing a few strokes on the fine stone shows all the ink being removed along the whole blade and on both sides.
The very tip still looks a little lopsided so maybe I need to even up the other side but I don't want to make the tip too thin. Should I just leave it as it is and let future sharpening take care of it.
It's now shaving sharp and I didn't need to remove very much metal and like I said it really was only the tip and the rest of the blade was fine.
Did I do ok or is there a better way to remedy this.
I'm not sure if I done the right thing but I placed my course bench stone against the sharp makers stone to get the right 20 degree angle and kept going until the ink had disappeared and a slight bur could be felt on the opposite side , once done I then sharpened both sides with the sharpmakers fine stones.
Reapplying the sharpie again and testing a few strokes on the fine stone shows all the ink being removed along the whole blade and on both sides.
The very tip still looks a little lopsided so maybe I need to even up the other side but I don't want to make the tip too thin. Should I just leave it as it is and let future sharpening take care of it.
It's now shaving sharp and I didn't need to remove very much metal and like I said it really was only the tip and the rest of the blade was fine.
Did I do ok or is there a better way to remedy this.
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