New vg10 delica fine stone?

[american21]

Vg10 I'd like to get to a higher polish level I have all 4 stones diamond course fine ultra fine can I start with fine or ultra fine off the bat or does that just take longer?

 

[RevDevil]

Depends on how beat up your edge is, your technique and level of patience. You might also want to get yourself a strop and some compound for a real high polish.

 

[american21]

Literally out of the box today

 

[zl1]

Sharpmaker?
Personally, i go Coarse, Fine, UF, strop

 

[mtangent]

Start with the fine.

 

[Morrow]

Moved from the General Knife discussion forum to the Maintenance, Tinkering & Embellishment forum.

 

[kwazyjuice]

If you want a good polish you need to remove the prior grit with the following grit. And chances are that you edge is not the one's offered on the sharpmaker.

So that being said you will have to reprofile starting with the diamond stones going through grit progression. Time and patience.

 

[american21]

How do you know when to move from the diamonds to the course?

 

[Cereal_killer]

When it's got to the correct angle and has formed a burr.
You do all your stock removal on the diamond stone then move up the progression from there. It's not like your shooting for X% with one grit then then a few more % with the next stone and so on from there, the reason to have diamond stones is to do the work with it and use the higher grits to refine.

Are you new to sharpening? Did you watch the video and grasp the basic principle, to set the angle you want, move metal bringing it to an apex (which you know you've done when it creates the burr) and then remove that burr/refine the edge. The higher grits arnt to do more removal, that should be done, their there to clean up/ refine/ polish the freshly created edge (or to touch it up in the future).

 

[american21]

I've sharpened And re profiled I guess s30v and 154cm and both took me probably at least 8 hours each with the sharpmaker and I'm generally happy with. The sharpness. But are you saying the diamond should do all the work and all the next grits just shine it up?

 

[Cereal_killer]

Yes, that's why you spend the extra $40 on the diamond stones. They do the work for you, you always do the most stock removal on your coarsest stone then depending on how the edge is you may even be able to skip the medium stones and go right into the fine rods (note this will depend on how much pressure you use, if you score it all up with the diamond rods you may still need that medium step as the jump from diamond coarse to fine may be to large a gap).