crooked knife- sharpening how to?

[running bare]

hi all
can anyone tell me how to sharpen a crook knife and what stones,diamond stone , torpedoe stone or whatever to use????

Thanks tom

 

[JonnyP]

Hi..........I use a diamond steel, like a butchers steel which is oval shaped instead of the usual round ones. You have to go slowly and carefully, but it works a treat. I have not found a way of stropping though.............
Good luck Jon

 

[running bare]

hi jon
do you sharpen on the front or the back edge?? ie. inside or outside the curve?????

thanks tom

 

[JonnyP]

Hi Tom.........My knife is a right handed one and I sharpen on the inside (concave)

 

[Martyn]

Wet and dry paper, wrapped round a piece of dowel.

 

[Fenlander]

I have ground down the secondary bevil on my Frosts Knife and can now maintain an edge using Autosol on a small piece of leather.

I suggest you use the search function for this one as it is a question often asked

Here's oneto get you started:

http://www.bushcraftuk.com/community/showthread.php?t=3544&highlight=autosol

 

[running bare]

thanks everybody.
great tips and links as usual

thanks

tom

 

[Motorbike Man]

As for stropping, I use a piece of thick leather bootlace loaded with solvol to strop my serrated blades, I reckon this would work with a crook knife as well. Hopefully I'll be findinmg out soon

 

[innocent bystander]

I roll a starkie up and use that on the inside of the blade. Brings it up a treat. Any thick leather would do though...

 

[Pappa]

I've got a Frost's Mora crooked knife, which is bevelled on the outside edge. Does anyone have any suggestions how to sharpen that, as I'm finding it impossible to sharpen on a waterstone?

Pappa

 

[cgait]

I've been told that you should use wet and dry paper wrapped around doweling rod

 

[capacious]

I have the double edge frosts hook knife, with the bevel on the outside, and the way I sharpen it is this. Get your strop and apply a small amount of stropping compound (available at axminsters or quality shaving companies) and start on the part of the edge closest to the handle. Then, as you push the edge backwards down the strop rotate the blade anticlockwise (if you are righthanded). Do this 20 times on each edge and it will be razor sharp again. Be very careful not to roll the edge as you come to the end of the stropping as you will end up needing to buy a new hook knife.

The best thing about the frosts (apart from the low low price) is the edge retention - if you do this properly you will not have to do it very often at all (thankfully).

 

[OldJimbo]

That's how I do my outside bevelled one, too.

 

[Pappa]

Thanks capacious.