You are reading a single comment by @youClown and its replies.
Click here to read the full conversation.
-
Just bought a loupe and have no idea what I'm looking at or looking for; my edge just seems pretty (surprisingly) uniform under both 30x and 60x?
youClown-
Well that’s good news! Maybe check edge whilst trying to deflect it to see if there’s a wire edge extruding from cutting surface?
Difficult to take pics down lens but here’s a new knife out the box at 30x and 50x. You can hopefully see main bevel sharpened at ~800 grit, not polished and then a secondary microbevel added at very end of cutting surface (at ~30 deg or so) at ~2000 grit. This isn’t present on other side and is to add a bit more strength to cutting edge.
jupiz
Yeah probably, 60x loupe is going to show you plenty. This is an aogami 2 Higonokami averagely sharpened yesterday at 8x and 35x. Going up to 80x reveals microstructure better but you can see if you’re missing the edge at 35x