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Originally Posted by The Reaper
Bill:
If I could elaborate afrom an amateur perspective, that angle is one of the reasons that I have suggested carefully marking the sharpened portion of the edge with a Sharpie or some other marker to see how much you are taking off and where.
If as you sharpen, you see the color of the marked edge is not being removed uniformly, you are changing the edge geometry.
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I finally purchased water stones--800, 1200, and 6000-- and dug into sharpening some carbon steel blades. I was really struggling until I remembered your Sharpie tip. I discovered I was missing out the front quarter of the blade edge...lord knows what I was grinding off up there. I still haven't mastered the triple-axis elbow turn up-and-out that I need to get the very tip sharpened without rounding it off. But I got the blades razor sharp for the first time where I can slice paper with the lightest touch. Very cool. The Mora with the distinct bevel was easiest because the edge geometry was easiest to follow. Stropping the blades on the back of my belt 50x per side made a surprising difference.
Thanks for the tip.