What Did You Sharpen Today?

Hosanho HO series... looks like Shun Zu knives. Around 60 hardness, brittle.
A pairing knife and 6" utility knife came at 12° (although the pairing knife was 11°). Chef and Santkou type at 15°.
Crazy sharp, ground on either 400, 600, 1000 and 1200 CBN or a combination. All came out under 80 with two passes on alox and 1 pass on 1mu diamonds. Ground and stropped on a T-8... sharpness from 50 to 80...
My daughter has some Shun Zu's, very similar. A tad too thick for my liking...but sharp for a couple uses.
 
I got the Cheefarcuut 400/1000 vitrified stone a few days ago, so I have been playing with that a bit. 64 HRC Magnacut, 62 HRC Elmax, some Benchmade S30V have been the main ones so far. Took a bit of getting used to compared to my Sharpal diamond plates! Got a some nice, aggressive, toothy edges off the stones, spent time learning how to deburr with this stone instead of my coarser sharpening strops and made a new strop! Did some .5 micron CBN from the late Ken Schwartz on rough side veg tanned leather and same spray on smooth side veg tanned water buffalo! The edges off this stone work great for slicing cardboard and stuff, should work nicely in the kitchen and processing game, too!
 
Yeah! I have been using the Venev pastes for a while, but found the bottle and wanted to use it to compare. I did find my tub of .5 micron Venev, so I will be making up another strop soon too!
 
Spent some time on the Cheefarcuut 400/1000 vitrified diamond stone. Sharpened a Bugout S30V, Spyderco Manix in BD1, Buck 110 TRX Slim in S30V and some of my customs got touched up. Also made up some tester strips with micropore tape and diamond pastes from Amazon. Did a 3000, 30,000, 60,000 and 80,000 grit micro pore strop. Also picked up a new magnifier and it gives me better views of the edges!

The one zoomed out is a MagnaMax blade and the other 3 are my s30v Bugout at 30, 60 and 80K stropped.
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Also re sharpened a couple of Nitro V MBBO yesterday too.

These are the MagnaMax that I sharpened yesterday 3/32" stock, full flat grind and around .007-.010 at the edge before I sharpened them:
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Just sharpened this one. Left the edge around . 020" before sharpening, Sharpal 220/600 to rough in the bevel, CFC 400/1000 for the clean edge, then some 3 micron and half micron stropping!

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Going to try to get some pics of the edge bevel with the magnifier.
 
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