dafox
Senior Member
I'm having some scratching of the blade on the stone while sharpening. The scratches are near the edge of the blade and are about 2mm long, perpendicular to the blade.It only happens when I'm sharpening my 240's and only on the right side. Doesent happen on my 210's or on the left side of the blade. Looks like I'm not holding the blade level with the stone but am tipping it a bit. I've tried rounding the edges of the stones with the lapping plate but this doesn't seem to be helping. For the right side of the knife I sharpen with the blade at about a 45 degree angle to the length of the stone, and when i sharpen the left side of the blade I start at about a 90 degree angle to avoid the handle and gradually change to about a 45 degree angle as I move toward the center of the blade. The scratches are mostly towards the center if the blade. Ive tried to be very careful when walking my fingers that are applying pressure to the blade to try and keep them in the center if the stone. I'm getting my knives very sharp and the edges looks pretty even after after doing a progression of stropping strokes eith fewer and fewer strokes with less and less ptessure. Before doing the stropping strokes I can see where the edge is uneven, looks like I'm not holding the knife level with the stone.
Any ideas how to remedy this?
Probably just more practice.
Interesting that there is such a difference between the left and right sides of the blade.
Thanks in advance for your insights.
Any ideas how to remedy this?
Probably just more practice.
Interesting that there is such a difference between the left and right sides of the blade.
Thanks in advance for your insights.