Super polished edges

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Just finished these up the other day. Only reason the tip looks blurry in the first one is because camera wasn't focused...

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Josh, those look great. I love the dead on consistent bevel widths.

Andrew
 
Nice guys! great job all the way around =)
 
Picked up this ZDP189/Carbon Fiber Caly 3 in Vancouver on our way home from our honeymoon, cause I felt naked without a knife. When I got home I gave it the full treatment.
Atoma 140
Shaptons 220 - 8k , skipped the 15k and straight onto the 30k. Came out brilliant. Skipped the 15k to prove that its the contaminated stone. I have been struggling with deep 10u scratches showing up randomly in my later stones and was having a hard time nailing it down. Last time I touched up my southfork I got really anal and started from scratch and used my microscope and alternating scratches to nail it down. Feel so much better now.



 


Re-profiled to a ~7.5dps edge bevel freehand with a Norton Crystolon coarse, edge bevel finished freehand with a Bester 1200 -> Suehiro Rika 5k -> Naniwa Junpaku 8k -> Naniwa Specialty Stone 10,000 and apex micro-bevel was then applied with Spyderco Sharpmaker F rods.
 
Wow, these are insane. I used to think I was getting impressive edges with my Lansky Diamond kit...
Patience allowing, I do get some very shiny and smooth edges that will shave hair, push cut newsprint or phonebook paper, but nothing even approaching these.
How long does that mirror last? I am not asking about edge retention, Just the finish.
 
Steel_Drake said:


Re-profiled to a ~7.5dps edge bevel freehand with a Norton Crystolon coarse, edge bevel finished freehand with a Bester 1200 -> Suehiro Rika 5k -> Naniwa Junpaku 8k -> Naniwa Specialty Stone 10,000 and apex micro-bevel was then applied with Spyderco Sharpmaker F rods.
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Dude... that's impressive!! great job!

Indianbladenoob said:
Wow, these are insane. I used to think I was getting impressive edges with my Lansky Diamond kit...
Patience allowing, I do get some very shiny and smooth edges that will shave hair, push cut newsprint or phonebook paper, but nothing even approaching these.
How long does that mirror last? I am not asking about edge retention, Just the finish.
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I don't know how long the finish lasts, lol, I don't mirror any of my own =) I regrind mine and then apply a toothy edge.
 
Sadden said:
Progression went as follows
Atoma Plates 140 , 400 , 600 , 1200
Shapton Pro Stones 220 , 1k , 1500 , 2k
Shapton Pro Stones enhanced with CBN 5k , 8k , 15k , 30k
Stropped with Nanocloth and Polycrystalline Diamond , 0.25u and 0.1u

Or something similar anyways. I may swap out for a Nubatama stone from time to time , or on simpler steels omit the CBN and Atoma Plates. Its always slighty different. Sometimes even adding 0.05u , 0.025u and 0.015u Poly Diamond
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Holy smokes! Mind if I ask how long does it take if you don't have to go back and redo? And I suppose it's like time per inch, right?
 
razor-edge-knives said:
Dude... that's impressive!! great job!



I don't know how long the finish lasts, lol, I don't mirror any of my own =) I regrind mine and then apply a toothy edge.
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Thanks, hilariously it doesn't even really take that long to do. Less than 50 pps on the Bester and about 200 pps on the 3 other stones will get you the above.

It's certainly not the perfect mirror you can get on guided systems with many step progressions, but its only 1 more stone than I would use anyway on my EDC knives so what the heck. The push cutting ability you get is just silly.
 
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