Sharpening frustration

Nov 16, 2008 20 Replies

You may not be saving any time, assuming you've got a jig that does microbevel adjustments easily.

If you hone the primary bevel on the coarse (basically removing the microbevel), it will take much less time on the finer stones to renew the microbevel because less metal will need to be removed.

Brent Beach has a good writeup of this with a diagram:

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