So I had a DMT aligner that I was using with my Norton benchstone. Somewhere along the line though, it became... Unaligned or something. Anyway, I wound up having almost the same bevel on each side, but on one side of the knife it was a few degrees too acute.
Anyway, I've taken to using the thumbstud as a guide and doing things free-hand, and it's worked out great. However, when I used the thumbstud, I wound up grinding in a bevel on one of the sides that's a few degrees more obtuse than originally, and so now there's this unintentional double bevel on one side.
Now here's what I'm wondering... This knife is pretty sloppy right now, because the primary (cutting bevel) is the same width and angle on each side, but then on one side there is this other bevel at a slightly more accute angle that is just as wide as the primary bevel, and so on one side of the knife the over all edge looks twice as large and "half finished" because I was only able to do a 1K polish on the new bevel.
I'm just wondering, what does that do? It doesn't seem to effect the cutting performance or anything, so I've just decided to let it go as it will disappear with further sharpening, but it has me wondering what types of disadvantages it creates. The knife seems to cut perfectly symmetrical, so it doesn't really seem to be doing anything at all.
Just curiosity really I actually see this mistake on a alot of my knives where I have re profiled the edge and not taken care of the entirety of the last bevel, but it doesn't seem to ever effect anything.
Anyway, I've taken to using the thumbstud as a guide and doing things free-hand, and it's worked out great. However, when I used the thumbstud, I wound up grinding in a bevel on one of the sides that's a few degrees more obtuse than originally, and so now there's this unintentional double bevel on one side.
Now here's what I'm wondering... This knife is pretty sloppy right now, because the primary (cutting bevel) is the same width and angle on each side, but then on one side there is this other bevel at a slightly more accute angle that is just as wide as the primary bevel, and so on one side of the knife the over all edge looks twice as large and "half finished" because I was only able to do a 1K polish on the new bevel.
I'm just wondering, what does that do? It doesn't seem to effect the cutting performance or anything, so I've just decided to let it go as it will disappear with further sharpening, but it has me wondering what types of disadvantages it creates. The knife seems to cut perfectly symmetrical, so it doesn't really seem to be doing anything at all.
Just curiosity really I actually see this mistake on a alot of my knives where I have re profiled the edge and not taken care of the entirety of the last bevel, but it doesn't seem to ever effect anything.