[letinsh]

oof. Putting an edge on these was a process, too. I'm terrified of warping a blade during quench, so I left them pretty thick at the edge. The first one took me ~6hrs to get to a sharp edge using my stones and the Lanskey sharpening system.

That pissed me off, so I tilted my 2"x42" back, so the belt was running horizontal (felt more comfortable holding a consistent angle that way). It made some bad noises and let the smoke out of somewhere near the bearing for the disk grinder portion, so I set it back upright (seems to be working ok....). Gritted my teeth and went slow and established a decent cutting edge and finished with the Lanskey. I need to get more confident with quite a bit, apparently.