Well the first 3/4 of a inch or so is razor sharp. It will cut but the primary purpose is to aid in penetration of soft material. I can stab this a lot deeper into a phone book than I could when it was stock. Is it a big deal? Nope. But I did want a more effective tip.
I started with a 120 grit DMT Extra Extra Course diamond stone for the stock removal. There was a lot of metal to remove to make it into the knife I wanted. I should have measured it, but this knife came really thick right behind the edge bevel. I gound it way back until I had a nice flat V-grind edge all the way to the edge with no micro bevel. It would shave hair at 120 grit.
Then I move to 320 grit diamond then 600 grit diamond. By now the natural slop in my sharpening stroke was begining to introduce some convex. Keep in mind that I intentionally re-cut the edge bevel thinner than I wanted to end up with, to allow for just this effect.
Next I went to 600 grit sand paper backed with leather. Here I spent a good bit of time forming the final edge profile and getting rid of scratches. Also the convex profile now fully forms from the natural give of the leather backing. I jumped to 2000 grit paper to bring out the polish.
The last step was 9000 grit paper to refine the very edge.
