Recieved this knife last week and love it. I mean the lock up and blade shape and smoothness of flicking the blade open etc etc. Well what I was less impressed with was the D2 steel and my ablility to sharpen it. Until today that is. I had been sharpening it off and on and kind of experimenting with different types of sharpening devices and techniques and truthfully had it so it would somewhat shave hair and would very easily slice paper. But not like what I have head D2 can do. So this a.m. I once again broke out my diamond Lansky and decided that a lower angle of attack to the edge was called for.
I used the coarse hone only for this. I refprofiled the edge to a full 25 deg on each side. This is much shallower than the 30 deg it apparantly had. Didn't mark the edge or anything-did it by eye and had at it. Approx. one hour later I finally heard the sound that I wanted to hear and that is the unmistakeable sing of the edges colliding as they should when the proper angle is reached. You know it is something you feel too when using a system or fixture like this. It would very cleanly and easily shave hair now and cut newspapers with gentlest of nudges. Not only that but when the blade springs out of the clamp for whatever reason and cuts your index finger on the fly down to the bone and you don't feel like it is cut well the damn thing is beyond sharp.
Of course after I stopped the bleeding and super glued the approx. 1" gash shut and put a large band aid on the wound I finished the edge on my white stone and the stropped it on my jeans. Incredible edge.
I should also mention that I had the knife apart when using the Lansky on it. Before when I sharpend it using this system I used two different edge angles on the guide to try and keep the original cantle to the blade. Now it is slightly and I mean slightly wider at the point than mid way down the blade so not very noticeable really unless looking hard. Very professionally done if I may so myself.
So now that I have this the way I want it I may now be able to pay more attention to the BM CQC lg PE I just picked up! Y'all probably think I am nuts and rightly so I guess but a sharp ass tool is a happy tool. Keep'em sharp
I used the coarse hone only for this. I refprofiled the edge to a full 25 deg on each side. This is much shallower than the 30 deg it apparantly had. Didn't mark the edge or anything-did it by eye and had at it. Approx. one hour later I finally heard the sound that I wanted to hear and that is the unmistakeable sing of the edges colliding as they should when the proper angle is reached. You know it is something you feel too when using a system or fixture like this. It would very cleanly and easily shave hair now and cut newspapers with gentlest of nudges. Not only that but when the blade springs out of the clamp for whatever reason and cuts your index finger on the fly down to the bone and you don't feel like it is cut well the damn thing is beyond sharp.
Of course after I stopped the bleeding and super glued the approx. 1" gash shut and put a large band aid on the wound I finished the edge on my white stone and the stropped it on my jeans. Incredible edge. I should also mention that I had the knife apart when using the Lansky on it. Before when I sharpend it using this system I used two different edge angles on the guide to try and keep the original cantle to the blade. Now it is slightly and I mean slightly wider at the point than mid way down the blade so not very noticeable really unless looking hard. Very professionally done if I may so myself.
So now that I have this the way I want it I may now be able to pay more attention to the BM CQC lg PE I just picked up! Y'all probably think I am nuts and rightly so I guess but a sharp ass tool is a happy tool. Keep'em sharp
