Blasphemy! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" /> If your troubles sharpening were with stainless steels like ats-34, ats-55, 154cm or S30V, I think that you'll find that SR-77 is much easier to sharpen.

Go ahead and beat it all you want. Then you can practice sharpening it. If you still can't get it the way you want it, you can pay somebody else to do it at a cutlery store, maybe a butcher, or I think you can even send them back for sharpening. But I'm pretty sure you won't have any trouble doing it yourself.

What you use depends a lot on how you want the edge. I wish I had a belt sander but I don't really have anywhere to operate it. The diamond/ceramic will work just fine.