Super polished edges

A few more pictures of the Spyderco Maxamet Mule after I did a little stropping on some Mother's Mag & Aluminum Polish on a hanging denim strop on top of the 13,000 grit SPS-II freehand finish. I'm not planning to use the knife this way, so I wasn't concerned about ending up with an overly polished apex with little to no slicing aggression.



 
Just did a Spyderco 204p Military. I have sharpened s110v, m4, s90v, and 5200, this felt harder.
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Joe Manco said:
Just did a Spyderco 204p Military. I have sharpened s110v, m4, s90v, and 5200, this felt harder.
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Cts204p should be way easier to sharpen than s110v but def s90v...I've done a few in that steel and is on par with m390, 20cv, (basically same steel as those anyway) and 3v...m4 was only slightly more time consuming.

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Bobby3326 said:
Cts204p should be way easier to sharpen than s110v but def s90v...I've done a few in that steel and is on par with m390, 20cv, (basically same steel as those anyway) and 3v...m4 was only slightly more time consuming.

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I know, I was very surprised. I'm re profiling a xm-18 m390 right now and it's going much easier. Same steel and removing much more more of it from a much thicker blade , doesn't make sense.
 
Joe Manco said:
I know, I was very surprised. I'm re profiling a xm-18 m390 right now and it's going much easier. Same steel and removing much more more of it from a much thicker blade , doesn't make sense.
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Maybe spyderco are done at a higher hardness

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Here is the m390 xm-18 I was working on yesterday. 18dps with 20dps micro bevel. 400-1000 grit diamond stones then 15-0.5 micron diamond lapping film then backed off 2° and put a 1000 grit diamond stone micro bevel then stropped with 5 and 3.5 micron diamond paste. All done on wicked edge.
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Joe (and anyone willing to chime in), When you use the 1000 grit for a micro bevel, do you use pull strokes, push strokes or a mixture? (I've been experimenting with all three to see how doing-so effects final sharpness of the micro.) I work on an Edge Pro, so I think what I call a push or pull stroke, for you, might be the opposite...due to the opposite positions each system requires the knife to be in during sharpening. So for me, a push stroke is from the apex, up towards the spine of the blade. Envisioning working on a Wicked Edge, it seems to be the exact opposite...just to try to make my question clearer.
 
Scrim said:
Joe (and anyone willing to chime in), When you use the 1000 grit for a micro bevel, do you use pull strokes, push strokes or a mixture? (I've been experimenting with all three to see how doing-so effects final sharpness of the micro.) I work on an Edge Pro, so I think what I call a push or pull stroke, for you, might be the opposite...due to the opposite positions each system requires the knife to be in during sharpening. So for me, a push stroke is from the apex, up towards the spine of the blade. Envisioning working on a Wicked Edge, it seems to be the exact opposite...just to try to make my question clearer.
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I go the opposite of stropping with the 1k then strop with the leather.
 
CRKT, w/IKBS, super smooth, detent beautifully dialed in, feels great in hand, great jimping, rock solid, no play, awesome value blade, surprisingly nice all around. 4 oz. Easily takes a crazy sharp edge.:) Knife is as nice as some of my much more expensive mid-techs (minus the supersteel). So nice, I got the "large" Fossile too.

 
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Quite surprisingly, it turns out it is possible to get a pretty good freehand mirror polish on Maxamet at ~68 HRC going from a DMT EEF to a Spyderco M and then a Spyderco UF. I wasn't expecting the Spyderco sintered ceramic stones to work as well as they did, quite frankly.



 
A little off subject but, with all the blade reprofiling and polishing I have been doing with my wicked edge I forgot how fast and easy it is to just make a knife sharp after it has been reprofiled and you don't care how it looks. I have already sharpened my wife's and my kitchen knives previously. I just grabbed two of them to resharpen for the first time(and they really needed it) threw them on the WE vice without tape, in the same position I originally profiled them to(40° inclusive) and hit them with a quick and light 400 grit and 600 grit and done in about 5 minutes each! Shaving sharp again, those veggies and that turkey tomorrow don't stand a chance!! Happy Thanksgiving everyone!!
 
Joe Manco said:
A little off subject but, with all the blade reprofiling and polishing I have been doing with my wicked edge I forgot how fast and easy it is to just make a knife sharp after it has been reprofiled and you don't care how it looks. I have already sharpened my wife's and my kitchen knives previously. I just grabbed two of them to resharpen for the first time(and they really needed it) threw them on the WE vice without tape, in the same position I originally profiled them to(40° inclusive) and hit them with a quick and light 400 grit and 600 grit and done in about 5 minutes each! Shaving sharp again, those veggies and that turkey tomorrow don't stand a chance!! Happy Thanksgiving everyone!!
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Joe, True, sharp is quick & practical...but a beautiful mirror polished edge is a shiny fun challenge! Happy TG to my fellow edge-nuts!
 
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Yes its a Ganzo that i tried to experiment with BUT WAIT!
Its just a 1000grit on a Lansky and finshed on a leather strop with Autosol, was able to produce almost a flawless mirror on that 440C😂

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I needed some more microscope images of my Maxamet Mule on some of my higher grit waterstones, so here are some more shots of it with a freehand mirrored edge bevel off a SPS-II 13,000:




 
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