Sharpening VG-10 with Sharpmaker

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Gypsy

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I'm no rookie with the Sharpmaker but I'm having one heck of a time getting the bevels to meet on a VG-10, plain edged Spyderhawk. I'm using the corners of the brown stones. The Sharpmaker instructions say that for a hawkbill blade to use the corners of the white stone. This seemed to remove no metal at all (the stones are clean) so I swithed to the brown ones.

This is my first knife made with VG-10. Is VG-10 hard to sharpen or is it the hawbill style blade? Does anyone have any advice? Will I get an edge if I just stay at it (2 evenings so far)? I hope the only answer isn't "get the Spyderco diamond stone".

Thanks to all who respond!
 
I just picked up a Spyderco Cricket with the stainless handles and the plain VG-10 blade. It was pretty sharp out of the box, but I touched it up to hair popping with the corners of the white sharpmaker stones. Did you start with a fairly dull blade?
 
It wasn't dull but the factory angle was greater than the Sharpmakers 40 degrrees.
 
I am surprised that the factory bevel is steeper than 20 degrees. (You are real sure that you are using the rods in their more-spread-out position?) The hawkbill configuration is not harder to sharpen when you are using the stone edges. VG-10 is not hard to sharpen if you are not drastically reconfiguring the edge angle. Use a black marker on your edge and take a few strokes on the hones. See how far you have to go until you will get to the edge. If it is a long way you might want to wrap some 120 grit Wet-or-Dry paper around your rods or a wooden dowel for faster material removing. It is not a VG-10 problem, it is an angle problem. (Really strange for Spyderco).
 
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