a drop of oil was tremendously effective.. nice one!

cbwx34 wrote:


im not a fan of breathing any sort of dust, and i do not know what this kiln layer that was brought up by clay when these started to fail, would do long term when inhaled..

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direktlink if the imglink doesn't come up
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sigh..
so i thought i would give it another chance but it seems like it couldn't handle being soaked and then flattening 1200 on 1200

hehe thats awesome!
that should earn the person who made it a weps system in viral advertising

does it tip down even with the tsuka and tsuba dissembled?

id say drop them for now, i bought mine thinking they would be hard like ceramics but they are more "chalklike", they absorbe water and sometimes catch the edge and a small cloud of dust shoots from them. and the edge will need more worke from that..
i havent tried the other ceramic but it seems to be ceramic like from pictures..

remember to get enough strops that is one thing i regret not ordering more of on my first order

mark76 wrote:


3G took an very good edge
the fist brusletto hunter i sharpened chipped alot..
than the next one had really soft steel, then now the last one took a good edge but i dident test the edge as it wasent mine.. i get alot of these here in norway and i just dont like them..

IF they use 12C27 in all "as they state" they are really sloppy in heat treat

my favorite is easily VG-10
bg42, s30v and one of their damaskus steels in old sebenzas took a good razor edge
vg-10 and 3G from Fällkniven same as obove
ats-34 from Pro-tech do i have a problem with getting scarysharp
emmerson in 154-CM was good as a chiselgrind, not so lucky as a V-grind

i dont like 12C27 as i have sharpend to many Brusletto knives and had trouble with it

i did hit the edge at the 20 degree mark on the F1. the swipe is 19.50 to 20.40 on the anglecube on the middle of the blade

thanks, i`ll look into that..
well deserved, very good info

the leather sheet is beautiful! being allergic to kydex i wont comment it

Clay what allignment mark did you use for the F1?

ill see if i find the factory angle on that one

im just finishing up 18/19/20 on the idun with the 1600 ceramic and will be stropping now..

my girlfriends F1 will be next, thinking on trying a steeper last angle say 18/19/22 just to see if it has any realworld use difference.. this is to much fun
blending with 14/10 micron is just in another league than the 1/.5 micron

i wonder if Fallkniven puts such acute angles on all or if its just the guy/gal who did yours
13 seems over the top

ill give 18/19/20 a go and see

well i got a package from weps today containing the ceramic stones, blank leather strop, 14/10 micron paste, .25 Micron Diamond Spray, ,125micron boron. and 14 & 10 Micron Diamond Paste
since my very first weps order never arrived here in Norway i only had 1 and ,5 micron strops so blending facets when convexing was very tedious..

so i went 14/10 on the strops to convex and now im in business!
i finished my pro-tech and now its the Fallkniven idun whos next

the protech got 19/20/21/22 degrees but i was thinking of just 3 angles.
say 17/19/20 or maybt 22/23/24

will this be much harder to blend?
all and any thoughts on the matter will be much appreciated

i have a 20 degree V-grind now..

i wish i could find that planobox locally, shipping is high on those
good thread. karma for this

hehe Ouch! that would be at a scary stab or cut.. erm.. dismemberment

having trouble finding the sweetspot on this shin-gunto, and where do i get guid rod lengtheners?

hehe if it havent been so tough to clamp down it would be a fun project to sharpen in stages.
but i dont want to risk bending the clamp..