Poor mans Lansky, UPDATE, pic heavy

rcb2000

rcb2000

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I wanted to thin out the edge on my 1111, see if I could get her to bite deeper.
The Sharpmaker obviously would take forever, and I wanted a more precise and consistent angle than what I could get free handing it with water stones.
So, I borrowed a friends Atoma diamond stone, taped it to my homemade grinding jig ( I use for knife making,, slow but you can really get a nice bevel), set the angle using,,, yes,, the level on my iPhone.
Set it to 17 degrees, marked my edge with a sharpie to see the progress,, and slowly started grinding.
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You can see in the last pic the original bevel is there creating essentially a micro bevel.

You can see here the original angle on the tip,, which was WAY more obtuse than the rest of the blade. I left the tip and swell(?) untouched for strength.
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Now you can see where that same thickness behind the edge is at now, on the reground edge.
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And the current thickness behind the edge.
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I'm going to give it a micro bevel of about 25 with the Sharpmaker,, and hope I didn't screw this one up!

Cheers!
 
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Thanks! Go on YouTube and check out Aaron Gough. He has a video on how to make the grinding jig. I started watching his videos when getting into knife making. He's answered every email and is a stand up guy.
He's also a member here on BF I believe.
 
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Thanks for sharing this, looks awesome. Would like to do something similar on my 1311. Could use my 1x30, but that's a lot of blade for a 1" belt unless I did a jig. Approx how long did it take? Coarse grit(s)?
 
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Forgot a shot of the whole thing,,
I'll smooth up the bevel wth a finer stone and strop, but I don't think I'll adjust the edge towards the tip.
I think it makes sense to leave it thicker there.. We'll see
 
Apophis said:
Thanks for sharing this, looks awesome. Would like to do something similar on my 1311. Could use my 1x30, but that's a lot of blade for a 1" belt unless I did a jig. Approx how long did it take? Coarse grit(s)?
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That stone I used is an Atoma 80 grit diamond stone,,, it grinds fast.
I went nice and slow and easy,,, it only took maybe 20 minutes .
 
Thank you. I'm sure it would be nothing for my xc dmt then, I'd just have to make sure the rig could hold it, lol. I also have an xxc TASK stone that might work well to hog off material. Anyway, look forward to hearing how it performs for you, looks like it should do well.
 
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Ok I double checked,, I swore he told me it's an 80 grit but I can't find it on the package...
This is the stone though
 
Pretty cool. I also never knew the iPhone had a level. Thanks for pointing that out.
 
rcb2000 said:
I wanted to thin out the edge on my 1111, see if I could get her to bite deeper.


I'm going to give it a micro bevel of about 25 with the Sharpmaker,, and hope I didn't screw this one up!

Cheers!
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That's not an 'If', it's a 'Yes!' Geometry cuts!
 
Apophis said:
Thanks for sharing this, looks awesome. Would like to do something similar on my 1311. Could use my 1x30, but that's a lot of blade for a 1" belt unless I did a jig. Approx how long did it take? Coarse grit(s)?
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I have reprofiled almost all my large Bussekin on the HF 1x30, to a freehand convex. Taking back the thick shoulder definitely helps.



 
Those look great! Interested to see the difference in performance.
I did as much research as I could about what people thought is an ideal DPS for SR101,,, seems like 17 seemed like a good place to start.
 
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