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A Reconsideration of Stropping (2 replies)
When I was still fairly new to sharpening, I had experimented with stropping using a balsa wood strop pasted with a green aluminium oxide compound. I never got good results from it, and I quickly...
View ArticleDVD Passaround? Sharpening Woodworking Tools (no replies)
I picked up a copy of Leonard Lee's Sharpening Woodworking Tools DVD on a lark while I was at Lee Valley buying some belts today. I found some helpful things in his book so I thought I'd give this a...
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Tyrolit 89A FEIN (5 replies)
Bigger and coarser than the wonderful 89A SUPER 1200 grit More photos and videos are in the production pipeline. For now - excellent quality, near perfect flat surfaces, harder than the 1200 grit,...
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Vintage Stone Identification (17 replies)
I ended up being given this bunch of stones today and am trying to figure out what they are. The top one is a slip stone that measures 5"x2" and is about .5" thick at it's largest. The face of it...
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Ideas for modding an oversized machete? (8 replies)
So I have this big 22" $5 machete that I bought years ago before I knew anything about blades. I used it once, decided it was terrible (too long, too much forward weight, half-ground edge bevel,...
View ArticlePerhaps a happy accident on a broken stone. (3 replies)
I keep my current use sharpening stones in a 5 gallon bucket to permasoak, and sometimes I will leave one stone while using another sitting on the edge of the bucket. Well this time it bit me, my...
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TYROLIT version of the sharpmaker (4 replies)
I just found this video the device looks well build with 3 grits of SiC stone [www.tyrolitlife.com] the price (just over 150 euros) is pretty steep especially for the poor EU countries like Bulgaria,...
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Swatycomet 150/320 SiC sharpening stone from Slovenia (3 replies)
Another sharpening stone from the good old Europe. This time - country of origin - Slovenia / [en.wikipedia.org] manufacturer - SwatyComet - [www.swatycomet.com] just a quick legend about the markings...
View ArticleGimme something finer (1 reply)
Hello, everybody from Germany. My name is Stephan and I am 42 years old. I have been trying to sharpen my knives for more than 10 years now, but never had any luck. Until I bought a DMT coarse stone...
View Articlelooking for info on "ever cut" knives (8 replies)
I have been asked to sharpen one of these. It is extremely gard to grind a 40 grit zirconium belt will not touch it. My XC dmt will cut it but slowly and produced a black slurry that won't come off my...
View ArticleZero full flat ground ZDP-189 Endura, mistakes were made. (2 replies)
Well due to insomia I finally finished zero grinding my ZDP-189 Endura 4 with a DMT XC. I learned a few things. The distal taper of the blade when zero ground, either due to the stress from grinding...
View ArticlePocket Stone Sharpening Set Up (no replies)
Looks like the diamond/sintered ceramic is a popular combination for pocket sharpening kits: [youtu.be]
View ArticleI lost it. I can't get a blade to do a true 90 across the grain anymore. (23...
Okay. I've been having this problem for a couple weeks. I can get a knife to push cut with the grain, but not across the grain anymore. Thought it was just an off day at first but after trying a few...
View ArticleEdge Retention and How You Sharpen (no replies)
I've been wondering this for some time. There seem to be two main camps of sharpening. One is grit progression with burr minimization, the other focused on high angle passes and not creating a burr...
View Article4x1x3/8" (100x25x10mm) Cheap Hardware Combination Stone (no replies)
Just saw this for the price of a regular cheap hardware stone ~$2-3, and had to pick one up, as I like cheap stones, pocket stones, and the utility of the cheap hardware stones. I was a little...
View ArticleSharpening Possibly Damaged Steel (16 replies)
I have two knives, (three actually but that one stabilized finally after a few sharpenings) all from Benchmade, that grind easily, burr easily, and are very difficult to apex. I can get them to shave,...
View Article6" Diamond Combination Hone M/F (300#/600#) (no replies)
I bought one of these listed as cosmetically damaged for half the price list here: [pages.ebay.com] Nice hone, performing so far like an EzeLap/Smiths/Lansky diamond hone. Great for lapping resin bond...
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Norton Crystolon stones - Coarse, Medium & Fine - my impressions and opinion...
These was given to me to check them out and have some sharpening fun. I know that in this forum there are a few topics about the Crystolon / Norton Economy stones but I think this one can be a blank...
View ArticleStone choice for flattening (1 reply)
Hello there, this is my first post yet i lurk around quite often. I currently use sandpaper (wet or dry SIC 240) and abrasive cloth (120 grit Alox) to flatten and thin out my knives which are mostly...
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