Spyderco Tri-Angle Diamond?

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Are these worth it for working on D2, M390, S30V..etc. The regular brown course triangles work good but not great. They handle 154CM excellent and other steels that arent as hard. I have gotten pretty good with the Sharpmaker and I am starting to like it a little better than my DMT. The back and forth passes on the triangles keep the bevel a lot more even then guessing how much you have done with the DMT. Plus the Sharpmakers is much easier on recurves. But it takes a lot of work on S30V to get it decent. So I am wondering if this is good way to go. Oh and does anyone know what the triangles are equivalent to in grit?
 
I'm not sure what grit equivalencies are for the ceramic rods. However, I DO know that even with the diamond rods you're gonna be wasting your time on D2 blades. That stuff will cave in to the diamond rods, but will not budge (figuratively speaking) on the ceramics.

However, I've actually had pretty good luck with S30V on the Sharpmaker.

-nate
 
On another thread someplace, the folks at Spyderco are quoted as saying the white sticks are approx 2000 grit. Can't remember about the brown.
 
2000!!! Maybe for the ultra fine but I look thru a loupe at the blade it looks closer to a what I would have guest to be a 1000
 
I think the diamond rods are completely worth it if you have a Sharpmaker. I believe the Sharpmaker rods go 400 diamond, 800 brown, 1200 fine, 2000 ultra fine. They're not the absolute coarsest cutting stones, but they seem to work well. I even re profiled and put a decent edge on a very beat blade in 440C today. With the diamond rods it took about 30 +/- minutes to go from chipped to shaving.

It also seems to work just as well on ZDP, S30V, CTS-XHP, 154CM, ect.
 
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