Sharpmaker / Diamond Stone Question

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rickppoole

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For Christmas I recieved a pair of diamond stones to go with my sharpmaker. I have a lot of fixed bladed knives in hi carbon, various tool steels, VG-10, and even a few small ones in SV30.

Q: Which steels would be appropriate to use the diamond stones on?

Q: Is the purpose of these to make a blade even sharper than the fine stones, or two sharpen tougher steels?

Any advice for using them would be appreciated...

Much thanks!
 
Diamond is the hardest abrasive available, use it on any steel. The diamond stones are also the coarsest stones Spyderco makes to work in the Sharpmaker. I think they're about 400 mesh, the fine stones are about 1200. If you want to polish further, you would want the ultra fine stones. Use the diamond to repair/reprofile a damaged or dull edge, before the medium stones.
 
+1 to what Hardheart said. The diamond stones are to reprofile the angle on your blade, and rapid stock removal with the regular coarse (actually considered medium grit) stones takes far too long.

Also, make sure you use just enough pressure to keep the blade vertical when using the diamond rods, no harder, or else you will dislodge/remove the diamond material from the rods themselves.
 
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