yeah I have the 10 and the 14 strop but can you do the same with the new stones clay has out that our diamond stones?

How much do you decrease the angle to strop? is 1-2 deg. or more like 5

I was working on my folding knife I carry, and reshaped the blade with the 100 then worked the blade up to the 1000 stones then stropped it with the 10 leather, and the 14 leather but it does not have that razor feeling like you would get when you buy a new knife, I used a 22 deg. ankle for ATS 34 steel. How do you achieve that kind of sharpness?

Its a 4.5 in drop point skinner with a 3/16 back bone, and ATS 34 STEEL

What angle on the arms did or do you start with?

ok that makes sense then as I get used to doing this then I can figure out or ask and get advanced guidelines on how to set the blade angle secondary to the use of the knife. AWESOME I am so glad that this forum is here because I was going to sell my sharpener because of the money I had in it and I could not figure it out. It was not as easy as it was when Clay used it on the outdoor channel and then shaved

So the settings that are in the phamphlet like 18 deg for a kitchen knife and 22 deg. for a hunting knife where do those settings come from. If using the sharpie is the best way to set the angle then why have these settings? This is where I get confused because then you can change it but change it to what angle how do you know what is the angle to change it to to get the best edge on the knife.

Ok I will give the sharpie a try tonight when I get home from work and see. Then watch for the burr and try to progress from there. Thanks everyone for the help Im sure I am going to have more questions hope youall dont get tired of my questions.

This one thing that I have always wanted to be good at since a young age and I totally stink at it and I saw the WE and thought here I go and I cant even get going to GO . Thanks all for your help

Thats why I joined the forum because I really want to learn and it has been very trying on my patience. I will try to night on a kitchen knife and see what I get.

That is what is hard I followed the settings in the booklet that comes with the sharpener and nothing changed, so I dont know is there a basic setting everyone uses say for kitchen knive is 18 deg, and hunting knife is 20 something, and small caping knife is something else and you tweak it or what. I watch the you tube videos and no one says this is where I set the arms to start they start going to it. This is where I am lost.

I am new at sharpening but I have had my WE for a year and still cant figure out to use. The problem I have is figuring out how to set the angle for the different knives from kitchen knives, to hunting knifes, to caping knifes etc. I have read the phamphlet that came with my sharpener but did not seem to change anything. Now I go on you tube and there are up grades and changes already that are being made and I cannot even get the pro pack model that I have to work let alone think about the upgrades some one please help. I really want this to work so I can finally learn how to sharpen a knife correctly.

PS I am new to the forum today.