Have you ever had the problem where you're sharpening a knife down towards the heel and the design of the handle scales causes the scales to contact the stone?
That's what happened with my most recent sharpening of a Tuya Envy 4 (love it, btw).
Like some other knives, the frame extends beyond the heel of the blade. You may be able to see where I put a small blem on the top of the scale before I realized I had a problem. No bueno.
In my experience, it can be a problem with any kind of sharpening, whether you freehand, use a fixed angle system, use belts, or in my case here, you use a Tormek. Sure, there's usually some kind of workaround you can employ, but that's always awkward and often results in wonky edge termination.
What I've done in the past is take the blade out of the knife, clamp it, and just use the tang of the blade as a handle. Definitely not ideal. Of course with a fixed angle system this works just fine, because you don't have to hold the blade. Not so much with freehand, belts, or Tormek.
My first thought was to use a spring clamp to hold the tang, but the clamp bangs into the machine, so that was a no go. Then it occurred to me that I could use one of the clamps from my Hapstone R1 to hold the tang, and that solved the problem. By their nature, these clamps are low profile and thus leave plenty of clearance to get to the bevel.
Anyway, I thought this might be useful if you happen to run into the same problem down the road.
That's what happened with my most recent sharpening of a Tuya Envy 4 (love it, btw).
Like some other knives, the frame extends beyond the heel of the blade. You may be able to see where I put a small blem on the top of the scale before I realized I had a problem. No bueno.
In my experience, it can be a problem with any kind of sharpening, whether you freehand, use a fixed angle system, use belts, or in my case here, you use a Tormek. Sure, there's usually some kind of workaround you can employ, but that's always awkward and often results in wonky edge termination.
What I've done in the past is take the blade out of the knife, clamp it, and just use the tang of the blade as a handle. Definitely not ideal. Of course with a fixed angle system this works just fine, because you don't have to hold the blade. Not so much with freehand, belts, or Tormek.
My first thought was to use a spring clamp to hold the tang, but the clamp bangs into the machine, so that was a no go. Then it occurred to me that I could use one of the clamps from my Hapstone R1 to hold the tang, and that solved the problem. By their nature, these clamps are low profile and thus leave plenty of clearance to get to the bevel.
Anyway, I thought this might be useful if you happen to run into the same problem down the road.
