Sharpening..

[Kitaro]

whats the best way to sharpen a knife. i have a boot knife which is bladed on both sides. Do i use wetstone or something, i'm not sure what material you use it with anyway, so any advice will help...(I'm new to all this, bare with me)

 

[ScottC]

Well I use a combination waterstone from axminster on my knives and a Hoodoo Hone system on my axe( search Hoodoo Hone for more info on it) i also use the starkie sharp strop which uses 'magic' paste to get the edge very sharp very quickly which after some initial troubles i have settled in to it nicely.

You can get both the Japanese combination Waterstone (1000 and 6000 grit) and the starkie sharp from www.axminster.co.uk


I am thinking about buying a gransfors axe sharpening puck, what do you guys and girls think of them?

 

[JakeR]

I think Scotts got it all covered. Depends on what grind you have, it is difficult to sharpen a convex on a waterstone, and you cant sharpen a scandi on a hoodoo hone. Hoodoo hones are for convex edges. And Waterstones are ideal with scandi's.

I just got a 240/1000 grit waterstone to sharpen out a nick, does anyone think it is too abrasive?

Cheers,

Jake

 

[Ed]

you cant sharpen a scandi on a hoodoo hone

.....remove the mouse mat ;-)

Ed

 

[Stew]

.....remove the mouse mat ;-)

Ed

or have mousemat and wet 'n' dry one side of the wood, wet 'n' dry only on the other.

 

[jason01]

HI Jake

240 might be a bit too co:***::***::***::***:, 1000 a bit fine, depending how much metal you need to take off. I would use the 1000 in preference to the 240 though! 600 or 800/1000 would be a more useful combination IMO.

Jason

I think Scotts got it all covered. Depends on what grind you have, it is difficult to sharpen a convex on a waterstone, and you cant sharpen a scandi on a hoodoo hone. Hoodoo hones are for convex edges. And Waterstones are ideal with scandi's.

I just got a 240/1000 grit waterstone to sharpen out a nick, does anyone think it is too abrasive?

Cheers,

Jake

 

[jason01]

WOW why would C O A R S E be censored?

HI Jake

240 might be a bit too co:***::***::***::***:, 1000 a bit fine, depending how much metal you need to take off. I would use the 1000 in preference to the 240 though! 600 or 800/1000 would be a more useful combination IMO.

Jason

 

[jason01]

My own stones are 800, 1200, 6000, the step is less at the finer grades so going from 1200-6000 isnt a problem, I could probably do with another around 600 though.

Jason

 

[Stew]

WOW why would C O A R S E be censored?

It's only part of the word!

 

[TheViking]

It's really anoying that we can't write C-O-A-R-S-E... :roll:

 

[Ed]

It's really anoying that we can't write C-O-A-R-S-E...

It seems the system is set to censor that explicative automaticaly, and any word containing those letters in that order will loose that part to a icon.....


Ed

 

[ScottC]

It's really anoying that we can't write C-O-A-R-S-E... :roll:

you just did

 

[jason01]

It's only part of the word!

Oh yeah! Doh!

LOL

Jason

 

[JakeR]

Ed, withour the mousmat it wouldnt be a hoodoo hone

I couldnt find any other combination stone apart from 240. Could anyone gimme a link for a 600 or 800?

 

[ScottC]

I couldn't find anything on the web but I was looking in my axminster catalogue for you and founds some coarse waterstones (big and blue/greyish in colour) they have 400 and 800 grit. I can't find it in the axminster website but the order code for the 400 grit is: GC8400 and the 800 grit: KING800

I think they are made by a company called Ice Bear.

Hope that was of help.

 

[JakeR]

Cheers Scott, Icebear are the manufacturers of the axminster waterstones.

:biggthump

 

[Martyn]

whats the best way to sharpen a knife. i have a boot knife which is bladed on both sides. Do i use wetstone or something, i'm not sure what material you use it with anyway, so any advice will help...(I'm new to all this, bare with me)

I'm guessing you didn't try a search on the term "sharpening" - as the 7 pages of results would surely have answered your question Kitaro.

 

[Keith_Beef]

It seems the system is set to censor that explicative automaticaly, and any word containing those letters in that order will loose that part to a icon.....


Ed

So we can't mention arsenic, either?


Keith.

 

[JakeR]

Or Scunthorp?

 

[Ed]

As you can probably tell, its being / has been fixed ;-) something to do with curly brackets :-? It may take some time to iron out the glitches but we are getting there.....

Ed