Sharpening Record Page

love to be on the page, I've gotten much better results with S30V and VG10 but I wanted to do a steel no one else in the thread did, so I started on a scrapyard.

results are not nearly as good as other knifes, but here they are (sorry for the bad pics)

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I'll try and get better pics when a better camera become available to me.
 
I add everybody to the page, but had no chance to upload it. I will do it tomorrow.

Interesting - nobody except Fluffster uses waterstones and he finish with CrO (which is Green Rouse) not with high grid waterstones...

Thanks, Vassili.
 
No problem, I pulled image from photobucket. I'll upload it tomorrow.
But you may send it to me as an attachment.

Thanks, Vassili.
 
I have been getting knives to hair whittling sharpness and beyond since I was 12 years old. But alas, I've never taken a picture, and don't have access to a digital camera now. :(
 
What I like about this page is that it shows very sharp edges are nothing mythical or extremely difficult to achieve. With a little practice, good technique and the right equipment, most people should be able to get themselves on this page.
 
Vivi said:
What I like about this page is that it shows very sharp edges are nothing mythical or extremely difficult to achieve. With a little practice, good technique and the right equipment, most people should be able to get themselves on this page.
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I agree. Prior to actually trying to sharpen my knives, I thought of it as some magical thing. Since I last posted in this thread, I thinned out the edge on my keychain SAK and split a hair with it. We don't even need to use all of the hyped up steels that everyone's crazy about.
 
the possum said:
I have been getting knives to hair whittling sharpness and beyond since I was 12 years old. But alas, I've never taken a picture, and don't have access to a digital camera now. :(
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No problem, as you may see this is not required. Some people used cellphones to make this pictures...

What is really interesting is how you are doing this.

Thanks, Vassili.
 
Vivi said:
What I like about this page is that it shows very sharp edges are nothing mythical or extremely difficult to achieve. With a little practice, good technique and the right equipment, most people should be able to get themselves on this page.
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You are right, this page just make people to speak up and share their way of sharpening and their results - which is great! Turn out that there are many way to get edge this sharp.

...However, I am waiting for someone who can do this with waterstones...

Thanks, Vassili.
 
Here is what my CPM D2 Military did after a pretty quick 15 per side microbevel on a 1000 grit Shapton Glasstone. I verified there was no burr via a lighted microscope (the handy $10 Radioshack one).






Sorry the pics are so crappy, but it is the best I could manage with my camera in a rush. I cut my wife's hair, which is not as coarse as mine. The fact that I could get these results in a couple minutes really speaks to the efficiency of microbevels, IMO.

Mike
 
A couple from my CPM M4 Krein Ultimate Caper. It was sharpened to .05 microns on lapping film, and only lightly used since then. It peels off tiny curls onto the blade, so it is hard to capture just how thin the curls of hair it whittles off are. I tried to capture that but it doesn't seem to show up very well. The first picture was just me taking a thicker curl that I made sure didn't come off of the hair, and it shows up pretty well. If you look really close at the center of the blade in the second pic you can see a sliver of hair on the blade, but there were a few more slivers on the blade that it whittled off that you can't really see. I really need better lighting and a better camera.






Mike
 
gunmike1 said:
Here is what my CPM D2 Military did after a pretty quick 15 per side microbevel on a 1000 grit Shapton Glasstone. I verified there was no burr via a lighted microscope (the handy $10 Radioshack one).

Sorry the pics are so crappy, but it is the best I could manage with my camera in a rush. I cut my wife's hair, which is not as coarse as mine. The fact that I could get these results in a couple minutes really speaks to the efficiency of microbevels, IMO.

Mike
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I used to not understand the concept of microbevels. I thought, if I just reprofiled an edge to increase cutting performance, why would I want to microbevel it and make it obtuse again? Once I tried them out I understood. You can literally reset an edge and get it hair whittling sharp in under a minute. With my UKPK photo I think I took it from an edge that had been used at work a bunch and only scraped hair to what you see in the photo with 3 or 4 passes of a fine ceramic rod then some stropping.

I'm working on getting a D2 Para. CPMD2 took a remarkably fine edge for me every time I sharpened it.
 
nozh2002 said:
What is really interesting is how you are doing this.
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At that time, I was using a diamond stone from Wal-Mart, followed by an old piece of ceramic bathroom tile. That's it. Now that diamond stone is worn very smooth (maybe around 2000 grit?) and I can get the edge hair whittlin' using just that stone only, if I work at it.
 
I got bored so here are my photos.

Caly3
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Delica 4 wave in foliage green
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Bm 558 "wave"
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Hk 14210
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All four knives I got around to testing.
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558
Caly3
Delica4 wave

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My process is Ultra Fine on SM 30/40 and finish off on a strop either loaded with CrO or 1 micron Diamond Spray.

Regards,
Brian

(I would love to go onto your site as well!)
 
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I saw all these cool high end knives and some moras done but I noticed there wasn't a single case or anything like it. so here it is.

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I use a DMT DiaSharp coarse to apply a slightly sub 30 degree angle. Then I bring it to a solid 30 using the brown spyderco SM rods. then about 30-40 passes per side with the fines. From there its a piece of thin single ply cardboard with CrO .5 micron compound on it.
 
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