the persistence is a shaver

[zyhano]

So after my previous bragging rights post on the mule, I can create another one on the persistence
Made my persistence shaving sharp and whittling hair yesterday. I took it out of it's spot among my collection and hadn't touched it since I did a trip to Scotland in april (check out persistence pics here..)

8Cr13MoV steel is relatively easy to sharpen. It started with a trip to the dmt benchstone XtraCoarse to reset the bevel and to get rid of the uneven 5 mm near the base of the edge. There was a slight depression there, I noticed this before on other knives, I think it's the place where they set the edge to the grinder to create the edge.

then I progressed up the grits to C, F, EF and then to the strops with diapaste of 6 micron, to 3 micron to 1 micron.

Took me about half an hour total.

The edge is not so nicely polished as it could be polished, but I didn't invest an insane amount of time on it.
here is the result, enjoy

that's not a tree, it's a hair

with the steel type stamp in view

on top of an interesting read

 

[dc50]

Some nice shots of a fine tuned Persistence As a matter of fact, for the heck of it, I honed mine on 1500 grit sandpaper last night, came out razor sharp.

 

[ZippoThisKnifeThat]

Yep same results as my Tenacious.
8cr13mov may not hold up like vg10 or s30v, but it takes one heck of an edge!

Thanks for sharing, that tree is worthy! lol

 

[knoefz]

Great result again!

I've put a polished edge on my Tenacious as well and it shaves good, but I can't get it to whittle a hair like that. Still working on m sharpening skills