Looks like a typical wire edge to me. Looks great after sharpening/deburring but fails in use.
Thanks Dave - your thoughts on how to correct at this point?
Looks like a typical wire edge to me. Looks great after sharpening/deburring but fails in use.
First, does that section hit the cutting board properly? I've seen many times where a section of an edge doesn't deburr cleanly and then I find that there's a reverse bow in the edge. When that's the situation the edge doesn't contact the strop/stone evenly and skips over that section. I'm reaching on this but I wanted to ask before talking about other stuff.
First, does that section hit the cutting board properly? . . .
for what its worth, if you're having too much trouble with it, just send it to me and i'll sharpen it for you
If you have a waterstone hard enough to apply a micro-bevel with, or a high grit solid ceramic stone (Spyderco F), you can make 1-2 passes per side at a high angle (at least double the angle you are sharpening at) with extremely light force to cut off a burr, and then make ~5 alternating passes per side at the angle you were sharpening at with light force to remove the tiny micro-bevel you created.
This process has the virtue of cutting off a burr rather than tearing it off (and weakening the metal behind it in doing so).
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