Kubey D2 round 2
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old4570
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Kubey D2 round 2
22 deg 180 grit Diamond cut / guided edge ..
Bottom line - It did 400 slices of rope .
After this I put the knife to the whetstone grinder .
The factory edge was poorly ground and I can't help but feel a little impressed with the 400 slices , in hind sight .
Another humid as day ( fog all morning ) . I had to do my paper slicing inside .
Has a ground edge now , stropped and it's sharp .
The Kubey is not going in the junk box , that's for sure .
Yes , took a while to get around to doing this .
Had some seriously bad weather for quite some time now . ( PITA )
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kootenay joe
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Re: Kubey D2 round 2
Not sure i understand correctly:
Did the factory edge do 400 rope slices ?
You mention sharpening with "guided edge" and later with "whetstone grinder" but don't give before and after results.
Are you able to explain your results more clearly ?
thanks, kj
Did the factory edge do 400 rope slices ?
You mention sharpening with "guided edge" and later with "whetstone grinder" but don't give before and after results.
Are you able to explain your results more clearly ?
thanks, kj
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old4570
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Re: Kubey D2 round 2
Factory edge did 250 ..
Guided knife sharpener = 180 grit diamond @ 22 degrees and then stropped = 400
After this I put the knife to the Whetstone grinder ( machine ) and put down a new edge cleaning up 90% of the factory edge .
To clean up the bad factory grind might cost around 5 years of regular use ..
So I did as little grinding as I could .
I cleaned up the tip and belly , its the remaining 1/3 to 1/4 of blade towards the handle that has a really bad section .
And to clean that up , would be costly .
A really poor bevel that is badly done can cost performance .
My TwoSun TS16 is kind of proof of that .
Nice sharp factory edge did 300 , Not bad for a factory edge .
But the whetstone grinder did 650 which is outstanding ..
Cleaning up a poor or average edge really helps .
Problem with a lot of guided sharpeners is that they follow the factory grind , and dont really clean it up or correct it .
The whetstone grinder ( machine ) puts down a more true ( Straight ) bevel .
Not that many people care about such things ..
I would suggest though , if you have a $$ knife that is ordinary ..
Paying someone a few $$ to put down a nice clean bevel ( straight ) might be worth while .
As that bevel might last for quite a few years , depending on the amount of use the knife gets .
I use that machine , to :
A) See how bad or good the factory bevel is / was .
B) Put down a nice clean / straight bevel
C) That ground bevel is really easy to maintain , maybe 10 passes on a strop and the edge is back
D) Harder steels or edges with more wear , a strop with a bit of green compound gets the edge back .
E) This way , the blade does not need a stone or diamond sharpener till the strop no longer works . And that might be anything from 5 to 10 stropping sessions . ( I have one knife that is up to 5 strops and it comes up sharp no problems )
Guided knife sharpener = 180 grit diamond @ 22 degrees and then stropped = 400
After this I put the knife to the Whetstone grinder ( machine ) and put down a new edge cleaning up 90% of the factory edge .
To clean up the bad factory grind might cost around 5 years of regular use ..
So I did as little grinding as I could .
I cleaned up the tip and belly , its the remaining 1/3 to 1/4 of blade towards the handle that has a really bad section .
And to clean that up , would be costly .
A really poor bevel that is badly done can cost performance .
My TwoSun TS16 is kind of proof of that .
Nice sharp factory edge did 300 , Not bad for a factory edge .
But the whetstone grinder did 650 which is outstanding ..
Cleaning up a poor or average edge really helps .
Problem with a lot of guided sharpeners is that they follow the factory grind , and dont really clean it up or correct it .
The whetstone grinder ( machine ) puts down a more true ( Straight ) bevel .
Not that many people care about such things ..
I would suggest though , if you have a $$ knife that is ordinary ..
Paying someone a few $$ to put down a nice clean bevel ( straight ) might be worth while .
As that bevel might last for quite a few years , depending on the amount of use the knife gets .
I use that machine , to :
A) See how bad or good the factory bevel is / was .
B) Put down a nice clean / straight bevel
C) That ground bevel is really easy to maintain , maybe 10 passes on a strop and the edge is back
D) Harder steels or edges with more wear , a strop with a bit of green compound gets the edge back .
E) This way , the blade does not need a stone or diamond sharpener till the strop no longer works . And that might be anything from 5 to 10 stropping sessions . ( I have one knife that is up to 5 strops and it comes up sharp no problems )