Quote Originally Posted by gssixgun View Post
These two things go hand in hand besides anything else you do

Let me try and explain

Pick up a blade call it a "0"

Set the bevel correctly it becomes a "1"
Sharpen it and it is a "2"
Polish it and you have a "3"
Proper finishing gives you a "4"

Create a burr and you have a "-1"

Don't create a burr unless you are doing serious restoration, you are wasting steel and starting with a chewed up fragile edge....
I only resorted to that method after trying unsuccessfully to achieve a suitably sharp edge using the method demonstrated by Lynn on YouTube. It looked pretty good with my 30x loupe afterward, but my experience is so limited that I don't really know what "good" is. I will probably glass the edge per bluesman's suggestion, and revisit the circle method now that I feel a bit more comfortable with the whole process.