I was super stressed about it (still is, thanks for all the help and good words in the knives instances) I guess I will see if I did good on my next camping trip.
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I was taught to test the edge by trying to slice a piece of paper, if it resists it is hard to cut you need to keep going. Although my experience is it’s fine as long as you do a halfway decent job of maintaining the sharpening angle and not wobbling all over the place. Don’t stress it, you can always sharpen it more!
Paper slicing is a reasonable test, but you still have to make sure you're getting rid of the burr. A burr will cut paper just fine but in actual use will dull very quickly. Having at least one finer grit and a strop makes this fairly easy. Doing it on one grit can be quite tricky.
+1 to not stressing about it though, half my knives have a patchwork look of different bevel angles along them from learning to sharpen. So long as the current bevel is consistent all the way to the apex they work just fine. Presumably a knife that is being sharpened is meant to be used and not admired for its looks.
Used the back of a leather belt for strop, don’t have one. Hope it will be enough
That’s pretty much what I did. Test it on a sheet of paper. The resistance seems equal to my Mora so I think I did good. Don’t seems to cut to much hair of the back of hand though