Sharpening; perpendicular or parallel to the edge, what are the different aspects?

In my further visit of this topic: I took this same knife and cut 50' of cardboard last night after having removed the burr with edge leading, parallel strokes. It now expressed about a 50% less burr than the first cutting above. So, some burr returned but less after utilizing a parallel method of burr removal than the perpendicular method. DM
 
David Martin said:
In my further visit of this topic: I took this same knife and cut 50' of cardboard last night after having removed the burr with edge leading, parallel strokes. It now expressed about a 50% less burr than the first cutting above. So, some burr returned but less after utilizing a parallel method of burr removal than the perpendicular method. DM
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Just to be clear, you're describing parallel removal as an edge leading, more or less movement is parallel to the stone, perpendicular is the lateral movement, edge pulled or pushed lengthwise.
 
You are confusing... Lets just drop their terms and use; edge leading burr removal is moving the blade along the length of the stone edge first. Lateral burr removal== an edge pulled or pushed ACROSS the stone. (Leave off lengthwise). This is my best attempt at clarifying. DM
 
I will say the knife required less grinding work to get the burr removed the third time. (edge leading) My experience with this. DM
 
David Martin said:
I will say the knife required less grinding work to get the burr removed the third time. (edge leading) My experience with this. DM
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This is my experience as well. I do not believe there is a free or cheaper lunch out there when it comes to burr removal. From a mechanical standpoint one would think the leading pass is most stable. I imagine some stone compositions might work differently in this respect, but in general...
 
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