What is your process for putting the first edge on your blade?

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Excuse my newbness, getting ready to sharpen my first knife and curious how everyone does it. Sand paper, stones, etc. course to fine, medium to fine or extra fine, etc?
 
Diasharp fine, Spyderco benchstone medium, Spyderco benchstone fine and then some light stropping. This is for setting my edge on it from factory. For resharpenings I just drop the diasharp.
 
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My first sharpening on a new blade depends on what came from the factory.Most only require touching up on a stone, medium then fine. If it's a convex I use a leather strop, start with the black and move to the green.
 
Depends. If I'm just doing a standard sharpening I'll usually just use my Sharpmaker as it's quick, easy and effective. If I feel the need to reprofile the edge, diamond benchstones or, if I'm not feeling like I have steady hands, cubic boron nitride stones in the Sharpmaker, which take longer but I'm less likely to screw up.
 
I wanted to add that I use more than anything, especially on an already fine edge, is a polished Butchers Steel for ‘proper alignment’, some edges I leave alone right off of the gray Tri-Sharp sticks for a more toothy edge.

There are many great tips here....I’m sure something will suit you.
 
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