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My congratulations also! Glad to hear you worked it out.

Besides Ebay, have you looked in our own classifieds? Nice stuff there, though it usually doesn't need honing.

Best wishes

Yep, with those stubborn ones you'll definitely need to drop back to coarser hones. 4k is way too fine to set a bevel, unless you've only worn back the original one a tiny tiny bit. Don't go to 4k...

Hi Spinsheet,

Euclid's advice to sharpie the bevel is good. I almost suggested it yesterday, but he's done a far better job describing it than I could have.

Yes, if you use tape at the start,...

Hi Spinsheet,

I'm glad to help. To be honest, I was mystified about "bevel setting" for the first few weeks I was learning to hone. It's not something you do honing anything else I know of.

An...

Spinsheet--you want to achieve the simplest possible bevel, the one you get when only the spine and your bevel itself touch the hone. The bevel has two sides, and you want the two sides to meet in a...

You may be missing something. I'll work from the first diagram in the link (with thanks to the diagram's original creator):

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The purple lines outline the triangle formed by three points:...

Unless you have extremely high-quality kitchen knives, don't bother sharpening them beyond 1000 grit. Finer edges than that won't stand up to kitchen use anyway, unless you spent some big bucks on...