Sharpening AUS-8

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Is AUS-8 a particularly hard steel to sharpen? I'm not a *great* sharpener of knives, but I use a sharpmaker to pretty good effect, and happily get shaving edges on a variety of steels.

I picked up a couple of AUS 8 blades today at the Spyderco Factory Sale, and OMG they're hard to sharpen. I have a G2 blade which takes an edge quickly, but the AUS 8 took forever to sharpen, and seemed to form a wire edge which just would not die!

Is AUS-8 particularly obnoxius to sharpen? How different is it from G2 in terms of sharpening?

Any observations?
 
I've had a CS Master Hunter for years, the AUS8 is no problem.Of course I use a diamond sharpener for almost everything.Afew light strokes on either side of the edge brings it back to very sharp.
 
I have a Cold Steel XL Voyager that I have had for years and it takes a wicked edge it the easiest knife in the collection to sharpen. I use just some old antique stones that came out of a butcher shop. I have sharpened some friends knifes a CRKT and I believe it was a Timberline all sharpened up great.
 
I've had quite a few AUS-8(A) knives through the years, and none of 'em were/are any problem at-all to sharpen with a Sharpmaker. Make sure that the hones are clean, and go light on the last 3 or 4 strokes on each side.
 
Part of it is I had to rebevel the edge - seemed to be fairly out-of-whack, and very different on one side from the other (I was sharpening for a friend) and I suppose I should have had a diamond hone for that... Must have taken half an or more like an hour, using the sharpie-on-the-blade-edge trick to figure out when i'd rebeveled it.

Wicked sharp now it's done, I guess it's just One Of Those Things...
 
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