Sharpmaker mods

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I was wondering, in order to achive different angles, if anybody ever split a sharpmaker in two?
 
huh, why would you want to do that? if your that fussed make some shims to put under the ends to change the angle
 
I am not fussed, nor would I ever cut mine in half, I was just curious if anybody else had done so. I would like to see some pics, just because I find it facinating.

If you put something on only one side you would have to keep changing it back and forth. BUT I think I may just do that when I get a swing guard or classic switch to put a real shavn sharp edo on it.
 
Much easier to just change the azimuth of your blade relative to the Sharpmaker from 90 degrees to whatever gives you the desired sharpening angle.
 
I have an idea, but I'd like to run it past the experienced people here before e-mailing spyderco.

I would like to see Spyderco offer OPTIONAL additional bases with 7.5 and 10 degreee angles. (15 and 20 inclusive)

Also, Triangle diamond rods with X-coarse, coarse and medium grits on the same rod.

If the disamond rods came with different grits, they would be well worth the money, IMHO.:)

What do you think? would enough people be interested to make it profitable for Spyderco to offer these extras?
 
Perhaps these "additional bases" could come with the diamond stones. It's pretty hard to reprofile some steels to those degrees without them.
 
Ben Dover said:
I have an idea, but I'd like to run it past the experienced people here before e-mailing spyderco.

I would like to see Spyderco offer OPTIONAL additional bases with 7.5 and 10 degreee angles. (15 and 20 inclusive)

Also, Triangle diamond rods with X-coarse, coarse and medium grits on the same rod.

If the disamond rods came with different grits, they would be well worth the money, IMHO.:)

What do you think? would enough people be interested to make it profitable for Spyderco to offer these extras?
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3 grits on one stone is trouble. Id rather have 3 sets of stones. I dont think you really need more than a coarse with to reprofile. The medium stone does a good amount of metal removal if you press into it. It just loads up quickly.


2 more sets of holes would be cool though. The 204 base has plenty of space to do all 4 degrees.
 
What I do is put something under the center of the base and just tilt the whole assembly left and right as I work. For example one of the rods under the center will add or subtract about 5 degrees from the normal positions.
 
Sorry for the bump, but would you say that a rod under the center would be adequate for burr removal?
 
I like low honing angles so I do most of my Sharpmaker work with the rods in the "30-degree" (15 degrees per side) slots with another rod underneath. I tilt the base as I work to subtract about 5 degrees on each side so that I am effectively honing at 10 degrees. To debur I usually just take the rod out from underneath and hone lightly at 15 degrees per side. If I have removed a lot of blade material or for some other reason have a big burr problem I will sometimes keep the rod under the base and tilt the blade in the high-angle direction. So I hone at 10 degrees per side and then switch my tilting directions and debur at 20 degrees per side. If I think this is not severe enough I will put the rods in the "40-degree" (20 degrees per side) honing slots and tilt the base as I debur to hone at 25 degrees per side.
 
So I would need a higher angle to deburr if I sharpened at 40* inclusive? 45* is not enough?
 
eojk said:
Perhaps these "additional bases" could come with the diamond stones. It's pretty hard to reprofile some steels to those degrees without them.
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You can already buy the diamond rods for the Sharpmaker, go to spyderco.com
 
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