Spyderco Sharpmaker

I bought the sharpmaker and think it is the best angle rod system out there. That said, I have subsequently moved onto convex edges but still like to use the sharpmaker to put a microbevel on the convex edges for tweaking them and when I'm too lazy to go to the strop.

The mousepad/sandpaper method is cheaper, at least to start, but if you do a lot of knives (I eventually converted all of my V-grinds to convex) it does end up being costly over the long term in sandpaper. Still, I really prefer how a convex slices. I like the fact that the sharpmaker is still useful to me. After going through the whole converstion process and then stropping to a razor edge, I'll often just touch up the knife when I need to using a few soft strokes on the sharpmaker. This is faster than and easier to do than stropping, especially since I keep my sharpmaker with the white rods set up in a convenient place in the kitchen.

Hope your sharpmaker works well for you! Like all no sharpening systems, I'll suggest that you put your hunters knife aside first and try sharpening a couple of older kitchen knives. Get a feel for the process before attacking your hunting knife. The one thing you have to be really careful of is not drawing the tip across the corners of the stone otherwise you will round out your tip. I did this to a few of my knives when I first got the sharpmaker and it took a lot of effort to reprofile them back to a point afterwards.
 
Thanks for all the advice. It worked well on my dummy teest knife. I started JAHenckels 4" blade which has been run through my Chef's Choice 120 a few times at the final 2 angles. Then I let my wife use it and wash it with the silverware in the diswasher. It was duller than crap, but a good knife.

I took it slow and cut the bevel to 15 with the diamonds. That was kind of slow, but acceptable. It probably taakes 50 or sso strokes a side to go ffrom trizor to 15 deg. Then with the bevel set, I worked on med and fine. I did ok, but I couldn't feel the burr well enough. Now I've stropped on cardboard. That is ok, but not the best, IMO. It just doesn't get the burr centered like it should. Still, it will slicce paper very smoothly and with aa light touch. Since I can do this, I have to give it an A plus. Need to pay attention to how I build the bevel better next time. The bevel gets much wider at the tip, indication a narrow edge angle.

Thanks. .
 
After you've set your bevel at 15 degree,Set the sharpmaker up for 40,and go very lightly with the white stones to create a tiny micro bevel.That should get things popping for ya.
 
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