Kawa
Senior Member
So, I want to be able to put on a microbevel if I decide it is needed. Means I have to start practising, because putting one on isnt exactly as easy as the torturial shows. The first few strokes on that way-too-high angle feel like you are deliberately destroying your previous work. And, one stroke in, there is no way back, or you just really destroyed your previous work
First I want to see and feel the effect on a cheap knive.
So, to start a few quick questions I can't find answers to, but I can't imagine I'm the first to wonder ...
1) Does it matter on which side I put the microbevel? Looking down on the spine, cutting edge on the board, I'd say I want it on the right side (I'm right handed, so are my knives). It's a guess, mostly because there is the higher/taller first cutting edge on an assymetric J-knive (which most, if not all, are?). I'm practising on western 50/50 bevels though...
2 At the end of my sharpening, or in between sessions, I'm using a strop. I'm assuming I strop at two different angles once you have a microbevel, otherwise you will miss the actual edge on one side I imagine. Is this correct?
How do you actually remember that microbevel angle while doing maintainance stropping? How can you speek of muscle memory when you only did a few strokes at the end of sharpening at that microbevel angle, then you dont hit that angle for a period (during usage of the knife) and then you want to strop in-between-sharpening-sessions. No way I still know or feel at what angle that microbevel was... I touched, used, sharpened many knives in between etc...
You see, some assumptions in my story. Please feel free to answer a question, or give feedback on anything i've put up. I'm open for that, since I like to learn and there always seems to be more into it then I think off...
Thanks,
First I want to see and feel the effect on a cheap knive.
So, to start a few quick questions I can't find answers to, but I can't imagine I'm the first to wonder ...
1) Does it matter on which side I put the microbevel? Looking down on the spine, cutting edge on the board, I'd say I want it on the right side (I'm right handed, so are my knives). It's a guess, mostly because there is the higher/taller first cutting edge on an assymetric J-knive (which most, if not all, are?). I'm practising on western 50/50 bevels though...
2 At the end of my sharpening, or in between sessions, I'm using a strop. I'm assuming I strop at two different angles once you have a microbevel, otherwise you will miss the actual edge on one side I imagine. Is this correct?
How do you actually remember that microbevel angle while doing maintainance stropping? How can you speek of muscle memory when you only did a few strokes at the end of sharpening at that microbevel angle, then you dont hit that angle for a period (during usage of the knife) and then you want to strop in-between-sharpening-sessions. No way I still know or feel at what angle that microbevel was... I touched, used, sharpened many knives in between etc...
You see, some assumptions in my story. Please feel free to answer a question, or give feedback on anything i've put up. I'm open for that, since I like to learn and there always seems to be more into it then I think off...
Thanks,