Wicked Edge Owners....

Hee hee hee! My problem is the opposite of yours, I am retired and my life allows me to spend an obsessive amount of time with it. It is good to experiment and try varying angles on the blades of my collected knives. One of the nice things about the WEPS is that it removes far less material than most other sharpeners I can remember. The other great thing about it is that edges are even and equally sharp. I used to have a knife or two with convex edges that now have beveled and micro bevels and a few that had beveled edges that now have convex edges. The all cut with great aplomb. I have a couple of mates over at another forum who were aghast that I would change a convex edge to anything else. I mollify them by telling them, not to worry, I can changed them back when I want to do that and easily too.
For me, the WEPS has added a whole new dimension to knife collecting, and now with the Naniwa Choseras Water Stones and soon the Shaptons, they will have to use a hoist to lift my coffin when I leave cause I am taking this rig with me when I go! ROTFLMAO!
I hardly know where to start with the Choseras once I get them glued up...I have the whole set so the gluing will be quite a chore and then I will have to develop a system. Pity I started all this at 75 since I have years of learning and experimentation ahead of me. Maybe I just won't go!!

Cheers
Leo
 
Leo, I am almost ready to order these new magical stones you speak of. I have sculpted bonsai, fashioned myself a wooden rake to pattern my rock garden which now surrounds my waterfall which my sharpening station sits atop. As soon as my kimono arrives I will don my wooden sandles and enter the next phase of my sharpening journey. I just hope I don't scare the Fedex driver. He may think he stumbled into some demented oriental mans cross-dressing tupperware party. Booyah!
 
When you can answer the question," What was your face before you were born?" You will be ready to own both the complete sets of Naniwa Chosera and Shapton stones. Once there, you will be able to ritually cleanse your sharpened blades with cold running water imported from the Yukon River and the clap your hands over them to attract the attention of the sharpening deities Allison, Schwartz and Blodget! Only then will your new bonsai trees, rock-garden and wooden rake be fitting...and hopefully your kimono too! LWTRDMF!

Thanks for the belly laughs my friend! :D
Leo
 
RoMo said:
Not trying to be smart but, that is no one's business except Clay's and his partners.
Again, not trying to offend anyone.

romo
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umm...ritee...

I actually consider a question like that a bussiness question, chief?
 
BTW you still haven't told me what you were in your working life. I said lawyer, student of Latin, university prof and now I add comedy writer. Fess up brother! I am dying to know. I was an English teacher and administrator for 40 years before here.

Cheers
Leo
 
CallsThunder said:
I'm waiting too whitefox. But I think the wait is worth it on something like this.
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I know the wait will be worth it. This is just my first product I have ever order in my entire 6 years of buying items online, that was backordered. So like many others have mention I am very eager to try it out. I have been sharpening many forms of blades by hand for past 3 years. So I purchased this device primarly because I grew tired of sharpening blades by hand.

I was aware that the sharpener was on backorder from the beginning, I just didn't know it would be this long.

Atleast I know we are all getting very good quality product.

(p.s: this really sucked to type on a HD Zune.)
 
clayallison said:
Whitefox,
Thank you for voicing your concern. You can definitely cancel with us and order from another supplier. I believe that Scott Solar has a couple of units left - scott.solar@gmail.com. Just let me know what you want to do and I'll facilitate it however I can.
<<MODS please edit this post if adding the vendor's email was inappropriate.>>
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I will just wait it out. Thanks though Clay. I apologize if my post came out rude.

Clay, I was also curious about future updates to the sharpener. What if you and your team come out with an attachment in the future that improves the sharpener in a certain way. How will this update affect a older model of the sharpener? Would past buyers have to buy this new attachment and fix it to the sharpener themselves or would they have to send it to the company to have it updated?
 
whitefox said:
I will just wait it out. Thanks though Clay. I apologize if my post came out rude.

Clay, I was also curious about future updates to the sharpener. What if you and your team come out with an attachment in the future that improves the sharpener in a certain way. How will this update affect a older model of the sharpener? Would past buyers have to buy this new attachment and fix it to the sharpener themselves or would they have to send it to the company to have it updated?
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Good question about the future updates. All the attachments we have planned are designed to work with the sharpener as is and won't require any kind of installation. BTW, we're unpacking boxes and starting QC today!
 
I need to sleep with my tin foil hat. The voices keep telling me to buy this thing. I got a new para2 today and the grind looks horrible. I'm starting to care more about how sharp and pretty I can make the bevel than I even care about the knife itself and this para2 looks horrible:barf:

The worse part of the whole thing is if I order it I'll be looking at it's box for a while until I recover from the shoulder surgery that is still a month away.
 
Ordered mine last Sun 27th of Mat...got e-mail to say I will be receiving it earlu may ....duh.

Bought the basic kit and added the fine / super fine

Can't wait to get it

I have global knivced that are supposed to be sharpened @ 15 degrees

But I also have a buck..dunno what type..it's a small folding one...maybe 4 inch blade....what degree each side should I sharpen it at????????????????
 
collioure said:
Ordered mine last Sun 27th of Mat...got e-mail to say I will be receiving it earlu may ....duh.

Bought the basic kit and added the fine / super fine

Can't wait to get it

I have global knivced that are supposed to be sharpened @ 15 degrees

But I also have a buck..dunno what type..it's a small folding one...maybe 4 inch blade....what degree each side should I sharpen it at????????????????
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27th of march
 
I ordered mine today. I gave in, must have been bad quality tin foil, and a really awesome deal! I can't wait, gonna put the diafolds up on for sale and to get the fine stones for the WEP. The only bad thing is come April 28th I'm having surgery on my left shoulder and will only get to look at it for all of may and into June. *cries*
 
when you say you are marking each knife so you can put it back exactly where it was before, what exactly do you mean? are you marking the knife, the clamp? I was thinking I would use my calipers to record the distance from the hilt to the clamp that way I could setup my caliper lock it down and then slide the hilt up to it, with the other end of the caliper already being up next to the clamp.

I ordered mine back in feb and it should be here soon hopefully, since I saw an earlier post from Clay saying they had got their shipment in.

The only fun knife is a sharp knife, like the only fun gun is an accurate gun.

Stan
 
If you watch a demonstration video on youtube you have the depth key so it is in at the right depth everytime. Also, there is a ruler looking thing that goes on the key with markings so you put the tip at the same place everytime. Then you use the same angle. I've read of people keeping a diary of knives sharpened for quick and easy touch up.
 
You guys are nuts! Paying all that $$ just to sharpen a knife? :eek:


:rolleyes: Ok, I'm waiting on mine too. Since Feb 20 and I just ordered everything I missed this morning. Can't wait!
 
How long after you placed your order did you get the email saying around May would be when you would get it? Shooot, I've spent just as much as the WEPS basic set cost on DMT Diafolds and Sharpmaker with UF just about. I should have just bought the WEPS the first time I saw it and it would have saved me alot of aggrevation.

I think I'm more addicted to trying to sharpen knives than I am knives. I only have 4 knives at the moment. Right around 230ish in knives. Got 200 in the WEPS preorder (thanks to facebook and clay!) plus the rest of the stuff. When I get the WEPS I'm going to get everyone at works hunting knives to sharpen for my personal entertainment. Plus, the look on their face after they dress the first deer.

The thing is just beautiful. I see no other way to put it.
 
Big_Red said:
Ordered 2/1/11 - got my shipping notification yesterday, 3/30/11.

Sweet.
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Dang! That's practically 2 months of wait 0_0!

I order mine on March 3rd, 2011. I probably won't get my shipping notification till like the 3rd week in April.

mongolguy said:
You guys are nuts! Paying all that $$ just to sharpen a knife? :eek:


:rolleyes: Ok, I'm waiting on mine too. Since Feb 20 and I just ordered everything I missed this morning. Can't wait!
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If it takes them an average of 2 months to get their sharpener out that is on back order, you should be getting it in mid or early April I imagine.
 
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