Thanks Sean, I needed this video. I picked up a DLT exclusive PM 2 in this very steel and also a PM 2 in Elmax and was searching for sharpening videos on these steels. Thanks always for sharing brother!

I'm a newb to sharpening & don't have the funds for a higher end system but do have the work sharp precision adjust which I'm learning pretty quickly on. Your tips & well explained tutorials are the best I've found & have definitely helped me a grip. Much appreciated sir 🙏🏼

@BLADESANDFADESOFFICIAL

8 ай бұрын

Happy to hear they have been helpful! You’re welcome!

Appreciate you and the KME community making these videos. It's so goddamn intimidating to put a 200 dollar knife in a system that literally one mistake will ruin! You guys help so much. Btw, may have to send you some stuff to sharpen cause WOW. Well done, sir.

@BLADESANDFADESOFFICIAL

2 жыл бұрын

You’re welcome brother!!! You’ll get more comfortable with it and keep improving the more you sharpen! Can’t be scared to make mistakes or you won’t progress! And thanks brother, I’m ready whenever you are!

@pcxdrone

Жыл бұрын

What do you think is going to ruin it? Simple. Sharpie as shown. Careful around the bottom. A tiny marking mistake on the DLC isn't going to "ruin" the knife.

A huge thanks for all your videos!! I have learned more from them then any other sharperner on youtube!! I struggle with one thing.. spyderco’s I use the kadet pro with clamp extensions, no matter what angle, or how i clamp, I can’t get a grind from the ricasso and 3mm twards the blade.. it’s driving me insain… any tips?

@BLADESANDFADESOFFICIAL

10 ай бұрын

You’re very welcome! Glad I have been able to help! And as far as sharpening the heal of the blade all the way to the riccaso, you just need to make sure your stone can get to it. So with your stone in the guide rod the edge of it should either be parallel with the ricasso or slightly angled away so that the stone can get entire edge. Use sharpie and it your stone isn’t getting to it, you may need to adjust how you have the blade clamped. Besides that you just grind away at it until it’s Reprofiled with the rest of the blade. Don’t move on from the first stone until you have it all worked out!

Awesome job brother! Very sharp indeed

@BLADESANDFADESOFFICIAL

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks brother!!

Nice video ! I was curious of S90V and now own 2 knives in this steel. Haven't sharpened my Native 5 CF yet but I have a manly in S90v with 0.005" behind the edge it's a monster knife ! Sharpens really nicely too, I'm suprised that they would actually use S90V and heat treat it correctly enough for this price. I like that you take the edge back to the ricasso. I started doing the same with venev diamond bonded stones, with a sharp 90° angle on a stone it's pretty nice for that kind of job. Not that easy on a fixed angle system though.

@BLADESANDFADESOFFICIAL

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks brother! And believe it or not I’m pretty sure this is the first knife in S90v that’s I’ve sharpened! It sharpened up pretty easy, honestly I don’t notice much of a difference when sharpening these different super steels! When you have nice diamond stones it makes it no different than sharpening anything else because the diamonds cut so fricken good! This did take a really nasty sharp edge though and it maintained its bite even after taking it to 0.10 micron! And DAMN 5 thou behind the edge?!?! What knife is that on?! I bet that’s a slicey MF!!

@ramonade_knives

2 жыл бұрын

@@BLADESANDFADESOFFICIAL Yes good type of abrasives makes everything go smooth ! Especially when you go for the qualitative ones. It's on the Manly Peak S90v, i believe there's several version though. Ended up getting it for $50 (sold around 80 in general), it's a crazy good knife ! Maybe it's just mine that had special treatment but i'm pretty sure most of them are really good cutters

@BLADESANDFADESOFFICIAL

2 жыл бұрын

@@ramonade_knives thanks, I’ll have to look into them!

Have you tried out or seen the dual grit sharpening style from home slice?

I'm getting sharp edges but not as sharp as I'd like. After watching how long you spent on each stone tells me I'm rushing through the progression. Just need to slow down I guess. Thanks and keep up the videos.

@BLADESANDFADESOFFICIAL

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah brother, that’s one thing that has made a big difference in sharpness for me is slowing down a little bit and making sure I’m completely apexing the entire edge on the first stone when reprofiling because that is the foundation for your entire edge! And also if you don’t have it fully apexed in one spot it will not be sharp there! Practice makes perfect though! It’s a learning process for all of us and I’m still continuing to learn things also! That’s one of the best things about sharpening is that it really just gets better and better! Every time you think you’ve reached the top, give it a couple more sharpening and you’ll see even more progression in the level of sharpness and the precision of your edges!

Hi man, just starting out to sharpen my own knives. Planning to get some diamond stropping compound. Can you suggest what microns should I get as basic starting set? Thanks in advance man.

@BLADESANDFADESOFFICIAL

Ай бұрын

6,3,1 gunny juice is all you need!

@SlashGears

Ай бұрын

@@BLADESANDFADESOFFICIAL Thank you.

I got a s110v I'm working on now. Seems I am having a tough time getting a burr to form evenly on the low grit stones, taking forever to get it going. Using honing oil. Any help would be appreciated

@BLADESANDFADESOFFICIAL

2 жыл бұрын

Just keep at it bro, shouldn’t take too long, make sure you have it clamped tight and don’t spend too much time on one side. If the bevel is smaller on one side you need to stay on that side until it’s even with the other side and at that point you should have a even burr for sure.

@jarodhall1910

2 жыл бұрын

@@BLADESANDFADESOFFICIAL thanks man. I appreciate the tip.

Hi, can't believe how easy that was with that diamond stone, it really looks like a must-have for this super steel ! However, I am wondering, how does the edge hold when you sharpen S90V to such a beautiful mirror finish ? I have seen quite a few people mention that they prefer a "toothy edge" with S90V, to make use of those big vanadium chunks, what do you think ?

@WafflesASAP

7 ай бұрын

Given that Sean never answered this comment, I'm assuming he just never saw it (because it was an older video by the time you wrote it), but I'd be curious to know the same thing so I'm hoping that with this new comment from me, he'll see yours and give an answer. I'd be very curious to know what the edge retention is like with an edge _this_ polished. I use the Wicked Edge system and have their diamond stones from 50 to 3000 grit, their strops (which I use with their 1 and 0.5 micron diamond emulsions), as well as their 0.1 micron lapping films. I've used all of these to take various steels to a mirror edge: S110V (my blurple PM2), Magnacut (on both my large and small Sebenza 31s, my Hogue Deka, and my Protech Malibu), S30V (my PM3, Canis, and Spyderco Smock collab), S90V (on my sprint run Yojumbo), 20CV (my older Malibu and my WE Knives Vision R), and finally M390 (my brother's Bestech Ostap Hel Lito). Getting a gorgeous mirror edge is relatively fast and easy with the Wicked Edge system, and while I've found that there's just nothing as scary sharp as a true, mirror-polished edge - especially when it's done at a 30-34 degree (inclusive) angle - the edge also doesn't last as long as a toothy edge does, and it doesn't seem to matter what steel we're talking about. I'd definitely be interested to hear what Sean's experience was like with this knife.

@BLADESANDFADESOFFICIAL

7 ай бұрын

I haven’t had any problems with polished s90v edges, it holds up really well for me. The best performance ive gotten has been from 15-17dps finished with a f400 venev resin bonded (diamond or cbn) stone and then I strop it on basswood and kangaroo with 3 and 1 micron gunny juice. With that combination I can get a beautiful edge that is sharp and still has some aggression and good edge retention. If you go above F400 or finer than 1 micron diamond emulsion when stropping, you will lose some of the sharpness and edge retention.

@BLADESANDFADESOFFICIAL

7 ай бұрын

I haven’t had any problems with polished s90v edges, it holds up really well for me. The best performance ive gotten has been from 15-17dps finished with a f400 venev resin bonded (diamond or cbn) stone and then I strop it on basswood and kangaroo with 3 and 1 micron gunny juice. With that combination I can get a beautiful edge that is sharp and still has some aggression and good edge retention. If you go above F400 or finer than 1 micron diamond emulsion when stropping, you will lose some of the sharpness and edge retention.

@HellGatefr2

7 ай бұрын

@@BLADESANDFADESOFFICIAL Phew thank you both, what a treat 7 months later ! I saw that video from Michael Christy, it's crazy what he can do with K390 : kzread.info/dash/bejne/gqVlxLWTZKTVoNo.html I wonder if it's just pure technique, or if the quality of the abrasives also matter as much

@BLADESANDFADESOFFICIAL

7 ай бұрын

@@HellGatefr2 both matter from what I’ve experienced. You can get killer sharp edges with a variety of different abrasives but certain ones definitely work better.

I have the Culery Shop exclusive Sharman that I put some R/C Blade Works Dymalux scales on it, but the detent on it is pretty bad. I remember you saying that you made your detent stronger. Can you do a video on how you fixed yours ? Or would you be interested in fixing mine? And great sharpening video and those clippers looked awesome…

@BLADESANDFADESOFFICIAL

2 жыл бұрын

I actually already have a couple videos on how to fix detents! I have one on replacing your detent and I also have one on strengthening it! The thumbnail for the video is the Spyderco Subvert because that’s the knife I demonstrated on. JUST MAKE SURE that you watch the full video first, don’t skip through it because there’s some very important things that mean the difference between getting it perfectly tuned or making it worse and creating detent lash! It’s not hard to do but you definitely have to be careful and patient. You’re especially just opening the detent hole a hair bigger so the detent ball can sit deeper down into it (makes it stronger) but if you open the hole too much and the detent ball goes completely into the hole or if the hole ends up bigger than the detent then it’s gonna feel really shitty and then becomes a much more complicated fix!

@BLADESANDFADESOFFICIAL

2 жыл бұрын

If you’re not comfortable doing it yourself, I’d be happy to do it for you. And thanks brother! This video was “ok” definitely not my best but I’ve been struggling to get time to record lately and that’s why I recorded most of this at work because I wanted to get something out to you guys! Lots of good videos planned and coming soon though! And thanks brother, the clippers are definitely bad ass!! 👊🏼😁

@BLADESANDFADESOFFICIAL

2 жыл бұрын

And I have a cutlery shoppe exclusive shaman also and ironically that’s probably the best action Shaman I’ve had straight out of the box and I have 4! But like I said I have a video on how to do it if you want to try it yourself but if not I’d be happy to do it for you.

@JJ-lu6mg

2 жыл бұрын

@@BLADESANDFADESOFFICIAL the detent seemed much better before I put the new scales on it, but I don’t thin the scales would have made much of difference.

Dang, that's a nice and large Burr on there at the beginning of the video. I don't have any s90v yet . I do have s110v on a manix 2. Is s90v very similar to s110v in performance and sharpenability?

@BLADESANDFADESOFFICIAL

2 жыл бұрын

It’s similar performance but tougher! And yeah when you are setting your profile you want to make sure you have completely apexed your edge and a pronounced burr along the entire edge is a sure way to tell! After those first initial flips I begin to minimize the burr as much as I can through the rest of the progressions!

@stinkybuddydog

2 жыл бұрын

@@BLADESANDFADESOFFICIAL Thanks for the response. I sharpen with the work sharp precision adjust elite. I've been sharpening my Manix 2 at a 17 degree angle per side. I flip the knife when I begin to feel an even Burr along the entire edge. It seems like I should be creating a much larger Burr from what I see here in the video. I get good sharp edges , but I can't reach the sharpness level I see here until I get a better system such as a kme. Next sharpening I'm going to create the larger Burr like your doing. Thanks for the info

@stinkybuddydog

2 жыл бұрын

Oh I see reduce the Burr as I progress

@BLADESANDFADESOFFICIAL

2 жыл бұрын

@@stinkybuddydog yes, the reason for the large burr in the beginning is just to make sure you have apexed the entire edge! I like to get the burr like that evenly across the entire edge of both sides and then throughout the entire rest of the sharpening process I’m trying to get that burr smaller and smaller to the point that when I’m on my last stone of the progression I have no visible burr and can’t feel it! Or atleast small enough that I can just barley feel it and it feels the same on both sides! Then the strop can easily handle removing that last little microscopic bit of burr!

@BLADESANDFADESOFFICIAL

2 жыл бұрын

@@stinkybuddydog it doesn’t necessarily have to be as big as what I did right here. Everyone has their own ways and there are many ways to achieve excellent edges! This is just what I like to do just to be 10000% sure that the entire edge is completely apexed because there’s nothing worse than going through all the progressions and then finding out you have one spot of the blade that isn’t sharp because it didn’t completely apex there! Also it’s removing just a little extra steel so your getting to the steel that you know is fresh and going to perform the best. You don’t have to do it this way but it’s just what works well for me! 👊🏼😁

มุมกี่องศา

How'd that level of sharpness on the folded paper translate to a BESS score?

@BLADESANDFADESOFFICIAL

Жыл бұрын

Has several variables to it such as blade thickness and geometry where to as with the BESS test it’s essentially testing how fine your apex is. Both tests offer important insights when you want to check the quality and sharpness of a edge but I’m not sure theres a direct correlation. Ultimately if you consistently can do the freestanding paper push cuts clean through, you are in good shape!

Do you count how many passes your doing on each side or is that not necessary?

@BLADESANDFADESOFFICIAL

Жыл бұрын

Honestly not really, By this point I probably have a built in timer/counter that I don’t even think about. Now with certain things I absolutely count and stick to something exact like when i’m deburing or stropping. Im sure it wouldn’t hurt to count but I don’t really think about it much when I’m sharpening, I just kinda do it off my intuition. I’m always learning and improving though so these things are always subject to change. I’m due for some newer updated sharpening videos because I have definitely made improvements in the recent months!

@Hvac.tools_

Жыл бұрын

Appreciate it brother, looking forward to checking out the new videos, Subscribed and locked in 👍🏽✌🏽💪🏽💯

in how many degrees was the reprofiling?

@BLADESANDFADESOFFICIAL

2 жыл бұрын

17dps

@rogelioarciniega8704

2 жыл бұрын

@@BLADESANDFADESOFFICIAL thanks!! I leave you another question in another video!! you will cg kme

I feel 100 grit is way too rough for anything. The 300 is much better for what you’re doing. And you can use scotch blue #2098 tape on the blade to protect the heal and anywhere else you’re worried about as it’s thick plastic tape that takes a bit of work to go through.

@BLADESANDFADESOFFICIAL

9 ай бұрын

I use 100 grit every day and id loose my mind without it!

Sean, that is the most horrible edge ive seen in a long time...when i say horrible, I mean horrible for that poor paper you sliced to peices...😂😮😂😊. When i get a Tsprof kadet pro i will be able to achieve those types of edges.

@BLADESANDFADESOFFICIAL

7 ай бұрын

Haha thanks! The tsprof honestly doesn’t allow me to do any better than what I could do on the KME. Sometimes its even much more difficult. Just something to consider before you drop a thousand dollars!