sharp_edge
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First off let me make it clear that I don't mean to say anything bad about Spyderco Mule Team or the MagnaCut steel IN GENERAL - I am not extrapolating anything and I am only talking about one of the two MagnaCut Mule Team knives that I recently purchased directly from spyderco.com. Some of you may have read my post in another thread about my experience of sharpening this knife.
Just a few moments I decided to sharpen again the knife to fix the imperfection of the edge due to chipping from my previous sharpening session. This time I decided to start with the "red" stone in the Lansky Deluxe 5-stone system, partly fearing the diamonds are too aggressive and partly wanting to stick to the edge bevel that's already set from previous session (I used a sharpie to make sure that's the case). Soon after I progressed to the "green" stone, I noticed that portion of the edge did not look right again (see pictures and video below). I touched it with my finger nail slightly and carefully and a thin line of steel went off. As I have sharpened this knife at least three times, I am now very concerned with it. I am afraid something with it is wrong from the factory.
While I do not claim myself as a sharpening expert, I have used the same sharpening system to successfully sharpen many dozens of knives, some of which are Spyderco's. I also don't think I was shooting for a too shallow angle - I used the 17 dps setting on Lansky but we all know the actual angle depends on a few other factors. As a reference, I put a PM2 in one of the pictures below that I recently resharpened. You can see the PM2 has much smaller dps.
Just a few moments I decided to sharpen again the knife to fix the imperfection of the edge due to chipping from my previous sharpening session. This time I decided to start with the "red" stone in the Lansky Deluxe 5-stone system, partly fearing the diamonds are too aggressive and partly wanting to stick to the edge bevel that's already set from previous session (I used a sharpie to make sure that's the case). Soon after I progressed to the "green" stone, I noticed that portion of the edge did not look right again (see pictures and video below). I touched it with my finger nail slightly and carefully and a thin line of steel went off. As I have sharpened this knife at least three times, I am now very concerned with it. I am afraid something with it is wrong from the factory.
While I do not claim myself as a sharpening expert, I have used the same sharpening system to successfully sharpen many dozens of knives, some of which are Spyderco's. I also don't think I was shooting for a too shallow angle - I used the 17 dps setting on Lansky but we all know the actual angle depends on a few other factors. As a reference, I put a PM2 in one of the pictures below that I recently resharpened. You can see the PM2 has much smaller dps.


