Thinning out Clamps for your sharpener

777 Edge

777 Edge

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For anyone interested in thinning out your knife clamps on your sharpening system, here is a way to do it very accurately.

I took an old 1 inch wide file and cut it 6 inches long with my angle grinder, then I mounted it on a sharpening stone/strop aluminum blank.

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I then installed it on my sharpening system, with the knife clamps secured on the knife clamp bar. I set my angle to 14.5 degrees and filed down the front tips of the clamps until they were right where I wanted them.

The end result is having a set of clamps that work much better on smaller & thinner knives, without losing any of the grip strength or needing to buy another set of thinner clamps. (These new TSProf Quick clamps are not yet sold in a thinner fillet set yet, so I needed to thin mine out)

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Having a file mounted on a stone blank is very handy for multiple knife repair and tinkering purposes.
 
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One wonders why a knife sharpener company / designer has not ever sharpened knives to a high degree of performance and needs us "amateurs" to modify their products for them .🧐 Not just this brand ; wicked edge I am glaring at you . . .

Some how I just keep using my Edge Pro and "forgetting" to modify my Wicked Edge As I intended to do years ago when I bought it . (I refuse to pay the extortion money they ask for the long rod / low angle kit just so I can sharpen a basic pocket folder )
Love the WE stones for free hand sharpening ala Michael Christy though . Can even clamp the WE stones in a vise for full on reprofiling with one foot up on the bench . 😝
 
777 Edge said:
I took an old 1 inch wide file and cut it 6 inches long with my angle grinder, then I mounted it on a sharpening stone/strop aluminum blank.
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aaaannnnd using that alone we are all set to just use it to sharpen cheep knives the family and friends offer up !
Thanks for posting this though !
I'll keep it in mind for the time of the great modification of my Wicked Edge . Maybe this winter . . . after I have bought the last of the 15V knives , read all the threads here , hell has frozen over and the governments of the world have learned to play well together .
and Christmas has arrived .
 
Nice! That looks super functional. So far I've not had an issue with hitting the edge of the clamp but I could see this being great for small blades like SAKs.
 
This is one of the biggest reasons I’ve generally avoided clamp style systems. The Worksharp Precision Adjust was one of the better ones and I didn’t feel hamstrung by hitting the clamps with the stones. I did end up selling it, as I have other ways to do the same thing and generally use stones to sharpen at 12 degrees with a microbevel at 15 if needed. You can have a clamp system where the clamp isn’t in the way at all, but it’s pretty much a home built affair and can get very fiddly. That bothers some people but I’m ok with it every once in a while for a new knife.
 
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