With the popularity of higher carbide, wear resistant steels, I thought a list of tips and tricks for sharpening all knife steels would help. I have found that up to S30V/ELMAX/D2, that you can pretty much sharpen anything with regular stones and normal techniques. If you use diamonds and sintered ceramics it makes most of those steels sharpen in a similar manner. However, when you increase the carbide volume, it seems things can get tricky:
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I haven't sharpened anything over S30V/ELMAX/D2 so I can't offer much input.
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I haven't sharpened anything over S30V/ELMAX/D2 so I can't offer much input.