What Did You Sharpen Today?

Haven't posted in here for a while... I recently got a blue Civivi Qubit as a birthday present for a friend. I liked it so much I had to get one myself 😄
I used my usual setup for both blades. 400 grit vitrified diamond for setting the bevel, followed by a 3000 grit vitrified diamond and then a strop with black and then white compound for refining/burr removal. Both turned out very nice. The blue one is in 14c28n which is one of my favorite steels to sharpen. The green with damascus blade I got for myself is apparently similar to VG-10 and sharpened up nicely as well.

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I sharpened this Cooper Cutlery folder.

I used my TS Prof and Venev Ursa diamond resin stones, 80 to 400 grit. The stones are .6" inches wide, I love em. I set the angle to 22 and it still took a while to profile. I'm thinking that the subtle swell at the belly of the blade formed a slight recurve that even my narrow stones weren't making good contact on. Might have been a candidate for triangular ceramic stones.

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bonus pic of the removed metal

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playu72 said:
A nice chinesse replica. Hapstone r2 ,Boride t2 stones until 1200, ukranian 5/7 microns paste on leather ...
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Some nice bling on your R2 screws there. Where did you get those screws and caps?
 
Lately I've been doing knives I am not at all into, automatics mostly with tanto style blades.
Finishing on a worn 325 grit diamond stone. I think a coarse edge is best for hard use EDC.
 
Sharpened a new beater kitchen knife for my wife. Used my TS PROF with a magnetic table instead of clamps because I wanted to keep the angles even on both sides. I'm planning ahead for more consistent touchups on a Sharpmaker. Didn't think I'll use the mag table for a big knife again.

My best Bess in a while. Venev Ursa's up to 800.

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Dutch87 said:
Sharpened a new beater kitchen knife for my wife. Used my TS PROF with a magnetic table instead of clamps because I wanted to keep the angles even on both sides. I'm planning ahead for more consistent touchups on a Sharpmaker. Didn't think I'll use the mag table for a big knife again.

My best Bess in a while. Venev Ursa's up to 800.

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Very nice results! Did you use the large blade magnetic platform attachment for Leading Edge core magnetic table?
 
I used the extended platform, but I took the magnets out of it and only used the magnets in the center so that I wouldn't have to use so much force to break the knife free of the magnets. I used two layers of kapton tape to protect the platform from the knife.
 
Sharpened this Rosecraft Barlow.

Used my TS Prof and profiled with Venev Ursa stones that are .6" wide. I wanted to shoot for as high polish as I could get, so after profiling, I switched to Edge Pro Matrix stones that are 1" wide. That was a mistake, because the thinner Venev stone had happily gone over a very small recurve at the heel, but the wider Matrix stones started jumping over the spot. I didn't fully realize what had happened until I reached my 2.3k Matrix stone and the difference in polish was revealed. Lucky, the edge was well apexed from the Venev stone, so I finished on the Matrix 4k, then tried to save the polish with a .5" wide glass stone with 6k polishing tape on it and then 1um gunny juice on .5" mounted basswood. So the edge has an uneven polish. it is cloudy towards the heel, but the edge is very keen and I managed to get the tip needle sharp.

I am a big believer in using narrow stones navigate uneven factory grinds in small blades. I would have stuck to the narrow Venevs, but I only have up to 800 grit on them and I was fixated on high polish. I have some narrow CBN stones coming that I am hoping become my main stones for anything under 4"

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Finally sharpened my neglected Tojiro ITK Petty in White No. 1. 220, 1000, 4000, strop at 12 degrees per side. It’s not a mirror finish but it’s as close as I ever get.
 
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