No bite on my blades >:(

[me2]

I have a laminated kitchen knife, but I think the core is vg-1. It will still get what most would call scary sharp off the 1k stone. That reminds me, I have 3 or 4 knives to sharpen tonight. Later.

 

[Razorsharp-Travis]

OP: after sharpening through all your stones, do you have bite BEFORE stropping, You might be rounding the apex- with a strop you want to go slightly below what you do on a stone, only slightly, and you only want to make a few passes on the strop- less is more.

 

[HeavyHanded]

I have gotten into the sharpening side of knives pretty heavily lately. I have ordered some high end water stones and a good strop so that I can maintain a razors edge as needed on all my blades. I have honed(no pun intended) my skills to the point that I can get hair whittling edges with minimal difficulty. But my edges have almost NO bite. I can literally slide my fingers back and forth on the edge(with VERY lite pressure of course). My sharpening system is as follows. Set bevel to a burr on Shapton 1000 Grit Glass Stone, Strop on Shapton 6000 Grit Glass Stone. Strop on KnivesPlus Strop Block. So I'm thinking I might need to use a more aggressive stripping media for finishing. A diamond spray perhaps. Suggestions?

Another consideration - once you get the grind pattern down to a 6000 grit and stropped there might not be much left of the grind to catch on your fingers. I've had projects where I thought I'd rounded the edge off because the edge had no catch on my fingertips doing the three finger test. A day or two later I noticed a bunch of small parallel cuts in the outer layer of skin on my fingertips - not deep enough to bleed, but enough to cut through my fingerprint. Once the skin dried out they became visible.