Suehiro Cerax Dual Grit Edge | 40 mm Manila Rope | ANDE Knife Test

New best fine stone!? The King 6000 grit water stone has always been my go-to fine stone for dual grit edges. I expected good things from the Shapton Glass 8000 grit and Japanese Natural Stones, but interestingly - they seemed too hard to properly remove enough damaged metal from the Coarse stone.
Could the Suehiro Cerax 1000 grit (1K) / 3000 grit Cerax Japanese water-stone be the key to unlock even better dual grit performance?
Our friend ANDE, the 40 mm Manila rope will surely tell us!
Also check out my tutorials on dual grit sharpening.
What's a dual grit edge, you may ask?
Think: high performance aggressive knife edge!!! This method for versatile razor sharp knives is fast, easy, and leads to edge retention increases of up to 50% in some tasks! Watch my tutorials to quickly learn innovative hand sharpening techniques with whetstone, diamond plate, & honing strop.
The dual grit method is a specific method for sharpening one side of the edge coarse and the other fine - an updated tutorial is below:
• CPM MagnaCut Dual Grit...
And the results have been observed by independent testing:
• You Won't Believe How ...
If you're curious about the science behind the edge mechanics, check out this scienceofsharp.com article in which Dr. Todd Simpson analyzes the effect:
scienceofsharp.com/2021/06/15...
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Whether your passion is bushcraft knives, survival blades, hunting & fishing knives, edc knives, or kitchen knives - this method could revolutionize the way you sharpen your knives and make your edge last longer!!!
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[@computeronzin]

The more you work on this, the greater your accuracy becomes, the better your results are. It may be useful to go back to old top results and take the test again with the accuracy you have now. My philosophy is: “The cause is always within yourself”.

[@homeslicesharpening]

Yeah, you're probably right. It is also crazy to look in the scope and see how different one edge is from another just from swapping to a different stone. I'm not so sure I'll get to the accuracy you have in your kitchen knives, but it's fun to see improvements!

[@wadejensen3301]

Pretty darn good Gabe!....you know I'm totally going to pressure you to find the best edge protocol for my steels so I can maximise my offerings to my customers 😊

[@homeslicesharpening]

Haha! The best test has not yet aired, my friend. Even just for these Victorinox knives. There are some fairly mind-blowing things to come I will say... Also - I plan to use your NitroV in this testing, to observe the difference caused by hardness (I'll compare some Civivi NitroV at probably 59-60 HRC to yours at 63 and see whether the best stone combo from this Victorinox testing performs differently at different hardness). If the results are clearly in line with my other findings, I'll probably leave it at that (but you'll have something of an answer). If it appears that we could optimize a stone combo and technique that's better for harder steels, you know I'll tinker around with yours. Cheers mate.

[@sabelfechter7136]

I finally found the time to make some pics of my Z-Wear Mule, with relief bevel + microbevel, and sharpening equipment. How/where do i send you those? 🤔

[@homeslicesharpening]

Are you on Instagram, I could re-activate my de-activated account and DM you there?

[@sabelfechter7136]

@@homeslicesharpening Deactivated mine too, do you have a non private email, like a contact email for your channel related stuff? 🤔