06-29-2021, 10:40 AM
(06-26-2021, 10:00 PM)grepper Wrote: You certainly have mastered hand sharpening.
Those are extremely sharp edges. Well done!
Apparently you don't need jigs,
fixtures or power equipment.
Thank you, Mr G, I am actually quite proud !
I can't always get into the mid-30's. but I think that's a worthy goal.
This morning, I wanted to try something in steel S30V, and I had a used Buck "BOS" 860 "neck whistle" in the garage. I didn't spend much time, but when finishing up on a Cow Leather strop with DMT spray 0.5 micron diamond, I found a pretty good edge at 56g.
BUCK “BOS” 860 USA in S30V ……………......………...56g
BUCK 110. (3-dot) USA 440C …………847/329/184/52g
I had an ancient Buck 110 in the tool box, with three "dots: and no particular heritage other than abuse - as most of those old Bucks were.
AWFUL edge !
After rather blindly setting a bevel by eye and hand, I was able to bring the old girl down to a 329g, which would be pretty serviceable.
With a careful progression after that - and ten times more work, the Buck 110 was down to 52g.
I speculate that both of these knives can be made sharper on the BESS scale with more work. BUT, as we know, those last 20-30g "reductions" will take more time than everything else put together.