Sharpening a roughed up Busse..

[Firestrike]

Some of you may remember this,

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This did a pretty good number to my edge. Had i not bought a 2nd TGLB for back-up I likely never would have beat this one so hard. Needless to say even Busse can take some serious edge damage and be in serious need of sharpening/regrinding/reprofiling.

So I went in search of something better than free handing a DMT stone/s, which led me to this,

As you can see there is some edge issues and that is the good side of the blade, after a few sittings of the KME, including buying an additional stone ( the 50 grit Beast)

the edge was reasonably good to go but still had a problem spot that would take many hours of grinding away to fix, you can see it here after the KME sessions I already had with the TGLB,

I just could not get that spot to go away. Now still in search of a way to get rid of this eyesore, I bought this product.

I spent approximately 5 minutes opening the box, quickly skimming the instructions, changing belts, testing a dummy knife, then running the TGLB through the three belt stages...5 minutes!!!!!

Not quite a complete mirror polish, but DAMN!!!!! The cheap regular edition of the Work Sharp absolutely blew me away.............
The KME does an excellent job of getting scary sharp Flat V grind edges in any degree from 17-30??? Not 100% sure but something like that, but I think the Convex edge the Work Sharp puts on helped to eliminate the big ugly spot I couldn't get out with the KME.....

Now I believe I am set to resharpen/regrind/reprofile anything damage I can throw at my knives...The old Smith's Tri-Hone I have is sitting uselessly on my bench since I discovered DMT, KME, and the Work Sharp.....

Thanks for looking.

 

[evltcat]

Very, very nice work!!
Now you know she's gonna want to be fed again real soon!!

 

[Firestrike]

Very, very nice work!!
Now you know she's gonna want to be fed again real soon!!

It is Deer and Grouse season right now, been in the woods a lot, she has already cleaned a few birds....plenty of chances still to beat her up a little bit more.

 

[Warbow150]

I've got a Ken Onion Work Sharp. Great tool for convexing, re-profiling, etc. One must be careful, as one can remove a lot of metal pretty quickly with the coarser belts. I mostly use it for big jobs and do the final sharpening on stones. Did both an ASHBM and NMFBM in this manner, it worked very well.

 

[Firestrike]

I've got a Ken Onion Work Sharp. Great tool for convexing, re-profiling, etc. One must be careful, as one can remove a lot of metal pretty quickly with the coarser belts. I mostly use it for big jobs and do the final sharpening on stones. Did both an ASHBM and NMFBM in this manner, it worked very well.

In this case, I needed to remove some metal a bit faster than by hand. Now that I have a good edge again I can now use the KME for quick touch ups. This may make for a nice micro bevel, not sure but I will experiment with it.