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Make sure you are getting a burr before you flip to the other side, try soaking the stones in water beforehand, when I am going up progressions I usually aim for 100 strokes per side.

So my final test was to cut through some rpm thick natural fibre rope, no idea what it was but it came out of a gym, the stuff you used to climb up as a kid then fall onto the hard wood floor...

Not fiddly so much as poorly designed, the rods are quite small but the holes they ride in are quite big, as such there is a lot of slop, you can hold a finger under the rod and try and make it more...

Sharpener scratch patterns
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Pure primary grind, fairly smooth and blends in perfectly, most expensive system, quickest to use but easy to bugger it up and takes a lot of...

Waste of money, too much play means the sharpener wobbles all over the blade.

I had the spyderco sharp maker with the ultra fine rods as well, a good system with a really well thought out case, however it does not even come close to the edge I can get with the wicked edge, so...

Next is the wicked edge
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Followed with the last one on the Tsprof k03
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So this one is being sharpened (now done) with this, an 84 engineering belt grinder
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And this one is being done on the tormek
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Two more to go...

Now with sheaths...

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Finished these off, three grew to four as one will be sharpened on my knife making belts sander as well. Also need to whip up some sheaths as someone’s already spoken for one and my testing...

Made, ready for cleanup before edge testing...
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Decided I want to compare the edge of some knives that I sharpen with different sharpeners, my Tormek, my wicked edge and my new Tsprof k03, to keep things consistent I made these:
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Three...