paper sharpening wheels - when your time is important to you

[kwackster]

Recovered some pictures from an old harddisk.
Several years ago i got sent these two user Emerson folders from neighboring country Belgium; a Commander model with a Krein regrind and a CQC7 model.
The owner was unable to get them sharp again with only his Sharpmaker, and the request was also to give the new edges a bit of bling.

As they came in:






After sharpening/polishing.









On the CQC7 i made the asymmetric bevel a bit wider to remove all different scratch patterns, and just touched up the existing mini-bevel on the other side.







Both knives could now be easily touched up on the Sharpmaker again and the owner was happy,

 

[Gottagofishn]

Recovered some pictures from an old harddisk.
Several years ago i got sent these two user Emerson folders from neighboring country Belgium; a Commander model with a Krein regrind and a CQC7 model.
The owner was unable to get them sharp again with only his Sharpmaker, and the request was also to give the new edges a bit of bling.

As they came in:






After sharpening/polishing.









On the CQC7 i made the asymmetric bevel a bit wider to remove all different scratch patterns, and just touched up the existing mini-bevel on the other side.







Both knives could now be easily touched up on the Sharpmaker again and the owner was happy,

Beautiful work!
Are you using paper wheels to grind and polish? What percentage of the knives you work on do you do with the paper wheels?
I’m just curious…

 

[kwackster]

Yes, i use Paper Wheels both for grinding & polishing.
For some time now with coarse diamond grits & wax for grinding and various diamond pastes & oil for polishing.

A rough estimate would be that 1/3 is done on Paper Wheels, 1/3 on my Tormek T7, and 1/3 is done by hand with diamond files, bench stones and wet & dry SiC paper.
Depends on the job as well as on my eyesight on that particular day.