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Chee, how you doin' with that stainless steel Puma you've been working on?? Do you have a microscope to check for microchips? OMG, that was so annoying... You work like crazy to set a good bevel,...

It's a stainless steel blade, so I don't think it's oxidation that is the problem, I think it's just that stainless steel overall is a bit more brittle than regular old carbon steel. Supposedly the...

The blade micro chips very easily on low grits, which caused the problem in the first place. That's why I went with the 3m films, too; much more gentle on the blade than my diamond-based DMT's.

OK, so I took another shot at sharpening the Hess today. I *very lightly* bread knifed the micro chips out of the edge with my Chinese 12k.

I then reset the bevel with 15 micron 3M film, using...

Yeah, I broke in both of the DMT's with the handle of an old, large Craftsman screwdriver.

And honestly, I'd rather see me using a Shapton 1000, too. :)

I'm starting to understand how people...

I gotta get it to that point... I just don't think the DMT's are gonna allow that, though. Micro-chipping buggers that they are.

I had some pretty good luck with the 3m films before I switched...

Chee, it's been a love/hate relationship with the DMT's. I did break them in as was suggested, and it seems to have helped some, but I'm still having problems with them microchipping the SS blade....

So last night and today I've been working on sharpening my Hess 44 stainless. It's the first SS blade I've sharpened.

It had some microchipping in it, so I decided to start from scratch; work out...