rcmodel
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I have had this Kershaw Leek D2 composite for a little over a year.
http://www.knifecenter.com/item/KS1...posite-D2-Plain-Blade-Stainless-Steel-Handles
It was shaving sharp when new a little over a year ago.
But a small chip broke out of the edge near the point the first time I used it to snap-cut a 1/8"" green vine a week or two later.
So I had to sharpen that out with a bench stone.
And it has never been truly shaving sharp since.
(Yes, I know how to sharpen knives.)
Since then?
* I have used Spyderco Sharp sticks.
* A diamond steel.
* Re-profiled it to 17 degree per side with diamond Lansky jig & diamond & stone hones which took over a hour tonight.
* Then I tried a Arkansas Ouachita bench stone.
* And a Norton Fine Crystalon bench stone that will put a shaving edge on a carbide lathe bit!
* Finally stropped on a grey cardboard sheet for 15 minutes tonight.
* It still has no shaving edge, and won't hook into a thumb nail half the time.
I'm wondering now if they over-cooked the D2 goodness out of it welding the two steels together to make the wavy gravy blade?
Or is all D2 impossible to raise a wire edge on one side then the other while sharpening and making it hair popping sharp?
My buddy's cheap Walmart Leek can be sharpened arm hair shaving, stick to your thumb-nail sharp in about 2 minutes when I sharpen it for him every couple of months!
So, what's wrong with mine?
rc
http://www.knifecenter.com/item/KS1...posite-D2-Plain-Blade-Stainless-Steel-Handles
It was shaving sharp when new a little over a year ago.
But a small chip broke out of the edge near the point the first time I used it to snap-cut a 1/8"" green vine a week or two later.
So I had to sharpen that out with a bench stone.
And it has never been truly shaving sharp since.
(Yes, I know how to sharpen knives.)
Since then?
* I have used Spyderco Sharp sticks.
* A diamond steel.
* Re-profiled it to 17 degree per side with diamond Lansky jig & diamond & stone hones which took over a hour tonight.
* Then I tried a Arkansas Ouachita bench stone.
* And a Norton Fine Crystalon bench stone that will put a shaving edge on a carbide lathe bit!
* Finally stropped on a grey cardboard sheet for 15 minutes tonight.
* It still has no shaving edge, and won't hook into a thumb nail half the time.
I'm wondering now if they over-cooked the D2 goodness out of it welding the two steels together to make the wavy gravy blade?
Or is all D2 impossible to raise a wire edge on one side then the other while sharpening and making it hair popping sharp?
My buddy's cheap Walmart Leek can be sharpened arm hair shaving, stick to your thumb-nail sharp in about 2 minutes when I sharpen it for him every couple of months!
So, what's wrong with mine?
rc
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