shaved with Spyderco Calypso Jr. ZDP-189 knife I reprofiled myself!
Wow! WOW! I recently reprofiled my Spyderco Calypso Jr. in ZDP-189... this knife was tree topping sharp when I first got it factory fresh, but my first session cutting boxes just made it shaving sharp...over the months, it's gotten less and less sharp, albeit quite a light saber.
I decided recently to reprofile it with a convex edge using a mouse pad and 500 and 1000 grit sandpaper... I was going to try 1500 grit paper, but thought I'd graduate to my diamond pasted strop and some cardboard/paper stopping to finish it off.
After about 20 minutes of diamond pasted stropping, and 20 minutes stropping on a manilla folder, I tested it on the back of my hand... shaving sharp! I stropped it a bit more on the manilla folder, and decided, what the heh! Let's try a cheek!
Really smooth! I just did one pass, and just a portion of one cheek, but I took a somewhat dull knife and brought it back to shaving sharp! Woohoo!
I think I'm going to hit the diamond pasted strop some more and see if I can get it back to tree topping/hanging hair sharp... I'd love to say I did that *from scratch* with this difficult to sharpen steel.
Anyone else here mad enough to try shaving with what most people would consider a knife, not a razor? :D