Well, last night I decided I didn't do a great job on my case trapper's bevel, so I decided to use the benchstone to reset it. I've had troubles using my DMT aligner clamp with this knife beacuse the hollow grind, so I decided to free-hand and use the penny method to set the angle. I was lazy and didn't do the math and decided two penny's would be too obtuse, and started grinding away.
Now my edge faces are extremely wide, and after doing the math (asin(.058/.558) * 180 /pi * 2 ) I find out I'm grinding in a 12 degree included angle
Not really sure if I should just finish it out and have an incredibly acute angle on steel that probably can't hold it ( Case's CV) or if I should add another penny to microbevel it, which would still only be at ~23 (asin(.116/.558) * 180 / pi * 2) degrees included. I still worry if Case's CV can even hold 23 degrees.
Either way I feel like it'd be a lot of work to finish it up the way it is now, and would be so acute I couldn't really do anything but shave with it. I'd be more comfortable at ~23, but does a microbevel of about double the secondary bevel's angle perform the same?
I've very close to having the edges completely beveled, but still very far away. The edge faces are .100" wide and I've got less than .030" of the old edge face still showing, but I don't feel like I'm making any progress at all grinding on these huge edge faces.
So long story short: Should I stick it out and complete the edge at 12 degrees and see how it works, or just microbevel it now to save myself some time ( now and later )? I have a pretty good idea that 12 degrees included is to acute for Case's CV for the tasks I'm going to be using it for ( other than shaving ) so I think it'd behoove me to microbevel it now, but I'm just not sure.
Now my edge faces are extremely wide, and after doing the math (asin(.058/.558) * 180 /pi * 2 ) I find out I'm grinding in a 12 degree included angle
Not really sure if I should just finish it out and have an incredibly acute angle on steel that probably can't hold it ( Case's CV) or if I should add another penny to microbevel it, which would still only be at ~23 (asin(.116/.558) * 180 / pi * 2) degrees included. I still worry if Case's CV can even hold 23 degrees.
Either way I feel like it'd be a lot of work to finish it up the way it is now, and would be so acute I couldn't really do anything but shave with it. I'd be more comfortable at ~23, but does a microbevel of about double the secondary bevel's angle perform the same?
I've very close to having the edges completely beveled, but still very far away. The edge faces are .100" wide and I've got less than .030" of the old edge face still showing, but I don't feel like I'm making any progress at all grinding on these huge edge faces.
So long story short: Should I stick it out and complete the edge at 12 degrees and see how it works, or just microbevel it now to save myself some time ( now and later )? I have a pretty good idea that 12 degrees included is to acute for Case's CV for the tasks I'm going to be using it for ( other than shaving ) so I think it'd behoove me to microbevel it now, but I'm just not sure.
