SOG Seal Pup Coating and Sharpening Issues

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Hi everyone,

I have got a Seal Pup recently and just wanted to say that it is simply an excellent and beautiful knife. Love it!! :D Just having a couple of questions regarding the blade, though. For the coating on the blade, if I happen to get some wear off from it due to normal wear and tear, can I send it back to SOG and have it sort of "repainted"? If so, how long would it take to get it done by the shop. Also for sharpening the knife, I am just wondering if anyone in here ever used the diamond coated stick from Buck on this knife, and how good is it from your opinion. I am thinking of getting that cuz it looks pretty compact. And do I need to use honing oil with that diamond sharpener? Thanks for the advice.
 
Tok, any diamond should be ok, considering that AUS6 is not a very hard steel as heat treated by SOG. I may be wrong though....

I use the normal, generic $3 carborendum stone to sharpen my seal pup (freehand, not very consistent angles though) but finish it to a mirror polish with careful stropping (shiny bevels but leaving some teeth on the edge). It now has a hair-popping edge.

Thing is, the seal pup is rather thick at the edge and I would suggest that you thin down the edge and lower the edge angle to increase cutting efficiency. I lowered my edge angle to about 30 degrees included but gave it a mini bevel of 40 degrees included. It now cuts better than when it originally arrived from the factory.
 
As for touching up the powdercoating, I don't think so, but it shouldn't affect the knife's performance.
 
I'm wondering why everyone wants to use diamonds for everything now. I think Sean Hawkins mentioned diamonds too. Actually, I find that the carbon steels, ATS34 and the AUS series can be sharpened quite well with regular stones....but stropping really finishes it quite nicely...

what do you guys think?
 
I use diamond when my blade is real dull but will stick to my spyderco sharpener in daily uses.

Diamond is good but
1) it wears out blades too fast... If I use diamond every time I sharpen, my blades will be gone in no time.
2) you've got to be very careful with the amount of applied pressure. I killed my first diamond sharpener that way in 2 weeks.

However, I still believe in doing sharpening free hand. Don't know why but I get more joy out of it. :)

Sean
 
Thanks all. Just checked with SOG and they said since the blade is made in Seki, Japan, they don't have the machine here to recoat the blade in North America. It's fine with me though, just thinking of re-coating the blade by myself when it really needs it one day.:D Anyone out there has the same idea with me?
 
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