Ok so I've been trying to sharpen my mora 510 today and yesterday, got it shaving sharp yesterday but wanted to see if I could polish the bevel a bit today, as it was looking very scratched. I ended up dulling it a bit because I still suck at sharpening but that's not really what this thread is about.
When I was sharpening it, I started by pushing the knife back and forth in a stabbing action because it's easier to keep the bevel flat on the stone like that, and it was getting fairly smooth looking, no more grind marks from factory sharpening, not a mirror finish but not bad. That was with my DC4 stone, the diamond side, which is course I believe, then I switched to my new two sided diamond plate from ragweedforge, it has a 600 grit side and a 1200 grit side, but when I used that it seemed to do more harm than good as it left some weird kind of brown colour on the knife, possibly the coating holding the diamond grit on and it left quite a few scratches, so the knife seemed less smooth than after the coarse stone, plus had some gunk on it that isn't coming off. I'm pretty sure that gunk is from the diamond plate but there's a chance it's from my finishing stone which is the "viking whetstone" from ragweedforge again but I think it was probably from the diamond plate.
So first of all, has anyone else had that problem with the brownish colour left on the blade from a diamond plate and if so does it go away after a while? Second, do you think the system I've come up with is a good one or am I missing a step, as in 250(I think), 600, 1200 grit diamond plates and then finish with a super fine natural stone (jasper). Is it possible to get a mirror finish with that process do you think, or are mirror finishes reserved for expensive japanese waterstones? I guess I don't need a mirror finish but a fairly smooth one would be nice.
When I was sharpening it, I started by pushing the knife back and forth in a stabbing action because it's easier to keep the bevel flat on the stone like that, and it was getting fairly smooth looking, no more grind marks from factory sharpening, not a mirror finish but not bad. That was with my DC4 stone, the diamond side, which is course I believe, then I switched to my new two sided diamond plate from ragweedforge, it has a 600 grit side and a 1200 grit side, but when I used that it seemed to do more harm than good as it left some weird kind of brown colour on the knife, possibly the coating holding the diamond grit on and it left quite a few scratches, so the knife seemed less smooth than after the coarse stone, plus had some gunk on it that isn't coming off. I'm pretty sure that gunk is from the diamond plate but there's a chance it's from my finishing stone which is the "viking whetstone" from ragweedforge again but I think it was probably from the diamond plate.
So first of all, has anyone else had that problem with the brownish colour left on the blade from a diamond plate and if so does it go away after a while? Second, do you think the system I've come up with is a good one or am I missing a step, as in 250(I think), 600, 1200 grit diamond plates and then finish with a super fine natural stone (jasper). Is it possible to get a mirror finish with that process do you think, or are mirror finishes reserved for expensive japanese waterstones? I guess I don't need a mirror finish but a fairly smooth one would be nice.