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Gatco 10004 Diamond Sharpener: A beginner's review
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Fwiw....
I've used that spray in the past and don't think it would be a better choice for your application over electrical tape or grip tape.
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Yet another update: Winter weather shut down the courts and offices around here, so I had some extra time to spend with this system. I even got bold enough to hone a few "real" (non-Goodwill) knives. I learned a few new things:
The friction tape definitely works. I need to quit messing with this clamp, get the right width of friction tape, and get down to sharpening. Perfect is the enemy of The Good, right?
My Spyderco Native 5 (CPM-S30V) takes a lot longer to sharpen than one of my junk knives, but I suspect it will hold an edge a lot longer, too.
Marking the edge of the blade is important. Marking the flat of the blade, so that you can accurately re-clamp the blade if need be, is very helpful, too.
The coarse diamond hone is good for setting a new edge on a blade, but clearly not needed on every blade.
I’m getting a decently-sharp blade, but I think I need to add something even finer than the fine diamond hone to get the blades where I want them.
I'm about to go edit the OP to compile a lot of what I've learned over the course of this thread for the benefit of future readers who may just stumble across it, and may not want to read the whole thread.
And in the category of “What Was I Thinking?!?” It’s time for me to get a couple of Arkansas stones. I’m an Arkansas dude, living about an hour from where they are quarried. It just doesn’t seem right that I don’t (currently) have an Arkansas stone. I know that I used to. A few years ago, I was going to re-learn freehand sharpening, and an Arkansas dude really ought to have Arkansas stones to do that, right?
The friction tape definitely works. I need to quit messing with this clamp, get the right width of friction tape, and get down to sharpening. Perfect is the enemy of The Good, right?
My Spyderco Native 5 (CPM-S30V) takes a lot longer to sharpen than one of my junk knives, but I suspect it will hold an edge a lot longer, too.
Marking the edge of the blade is important. Marking the flat of the blade, so that you can accurately re-clamp the blade if need be, is very helpful, too.
The coarse diamond hone is good for setting a new edge on a blade, but clearly not needed on every blade.
I’m getting a decently-sharp blade, but I think I need to add something even finer than the fine diamond hone to get the blades where I want them.
I'm about to go edit the OP to compile a lot of what I've learned over the course of this thread for the benefit of future readers who may just stumble across it, and may not want to read the whole thread.
And in the category of “What Was I Thinking?!?” It’s time for me to get a couple of Arkansas stones. I’m an Arkansas dude, living about an hour from where they are quarried. It just doesn’t seem right that I don’t (currently) have an Arkansas stone. I know that I used to. A few years ago, I was going to re-learn freehand sharpening, and an Arkansas dude really ought to have Arkansas stones to do that, right?
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ETA #3 added to the opening post.
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