south fork recommended angle?

[Spirch]

what is the default angle on the south fork and what would be the recommended angle for light/medium usage?

my sharpening system is the lansky one if that help

 

[Twindog]

Mine came from the factory at 19/24 dps. I reprofiled it to 15 dps. The bevel is fairly wide -- about 2 mm at center blade, more at the tip. And the edge shoulders are, of course, also wide -- 0.033 inches. By comparison, my Sebenza is 0.018 inches at the edge shoulder.

I think Phil Wilson's customs have a thinner blade and are thinner at the edge shoulder, so 15 dps is certainly not too much for this style of knife. I'm much happier with a more acute and even edge. This is an excellent knife design, but not really a hard-use knife.

 

[Big Chris]

I would also say 15 dps. S90V can handle that very well and for light use you could go flatter. To increase the cutting even more you could remove the shoulders at 12dps and then micro bevel at 15 dps.
The options are endless. Have fun.

 

[Ankerson]

This is at 15 DPS....

 

[gine]

I posted a south fork regrind that is about six thousands of an inch behind the edge. The blade is light- medium use and it is holding up fine with about 15-17 dps edge.

 

[Spirch]

thanks all, I just did mine with the 17 angle hole of the lansky system with the clamp and the DMT aligner, I used the black stone(extra coarse) to reprofile

this took a freaking while to do, I think more time than the m390 on the BM 710, s90v is very "hard" :disillusionment:

now it is more than scary sharp and close to mirror finish :applouse:, I only have the TAN (extra extra fine) of the DMT