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Posted By: TyT
Knife Sharpening - 02/28/21 01:13 AM
Anyone into sharpening knives? What’s everyone’s preference, water or oil?
Posted By: M.Magis
Re: Knife Sharpening - 02/28/21 01:15 AM
I may be the only one, but I use neither. One stone must be 50 years old and has never been oiled. I wash once in a great while.
Posted By: grumley701
Re: Knife Sharpening - 02/28/21 01:16 AM
Diamond, Wicked Edge for me.
Posted By: TyT
Re: Knife Sharpening - 02/28/21 01:17 AM
What kind of stone M.Magis?
Posted By: Jerry Jr.
Re: Knife Sharpening - 02/28/21 01:27 AM
Oil for stones and water for diamonds.
Posted By: Garryowen
Re: Knife Sharpening - 02/28/21 01:28 AM
I use oil on stones. Also have diamond stones. I use water on them. Have one water stone and water on that.
Garryowen
Posted By: Bruce T
Re: Knife Sharpening - 02/28/21 01:29 AM
Work sharp
Posted By: Boco
Re: Knife Sharpening - 02/28/21 01:33 AM
You want a whetstone to thin down the blade and a series of oilstones and a leather strop for a polished scalpel like edge.
Posted By: charles
Re: Knife Sharpening - 02/28/21 01:36 AM
I have a Japanese water stone that is 3000/8000 and I touch up with an F.Dick Rapid steel (spring loaded steels). My pocket knives and a dozen or more kitchen knives stay razor sharp. Start with a good knife.
Much easier to keep knives sharp every day than to have to reshaped dull knives. When someone gives me a dull knife to sharpen, I use my WorkSharp first.
Posted By: Scuba1
Re: Knife Sharpening - 02/28/21 01:41 AM
I use water stones and diamond plates in grits varying from 80 to 10.000
I don't like oil stones.
Posted By: Yes sir
Re: Knife Sharpening - 02/28/21 01:42 AM
I bought a set of water stones about a year ago. Cut fast but wear fast if you need to do much work on a blade but really great stones for finishing an edge. Think I'll try a good diamond stone for the heavy work. Oil stones last forever but cut to slow for me.
Just for context I was buying some older used knives off ebay and some of them had been severely misused and need a lot of work. Once I get a blade right it takes very little to touch it up on a fine water stone.
Posted By: M.Magis
Re: Knife Sharpening - 02/28/21 01:50 AM
What kind of stone M.Magis?
To be honest, I’m not 100% sure. Its been around longer than me. I’ve never known a good way to ID stones. Though honestly, the last several years I’ve been using a diamond sharpener more often than not.
Posted By: Garryowen
Re: Knife Sharpening - 02/28/21 02:01 AM
Smith and Norton make good stones. DMT makes diamond stones. Blade Brand makes water stones.
I use oil or water stones if the knife sharpens easily. Some are Rockwell hardness 58 or more and stones won't hardly touch them. On those knives I use diamond stones.
Garryowen
Posted By: Yes sir
Re: Knife Sharpening - 02/28/21 02:05 AM
Smith and Norton make good stones. DMT makes diamond stones. Blade Brand makes water stones.
I use oil or water stones if the knife sharpens easily. Some are Rockwell hardness 58 or more and stones won't hardly touch them. On those knives I use diamond stones.
Garryowen
I had a knife made from a file and I had a heck of a time getting it sharp. I wonder if it was on the harder side? I didn't have a diamond stone to try it on.
Posted By: Garryowen
Re: Knife Sharpening - 02/28/21 02:09 AM
I had a knife made from a file and I had a heck of a time getting it sharp. I wonder if it was on the harder side? I didn't have a diamond stone to try it on. [/quote]
If you get a knife like that try a diamond stone on it..
Garryowen
Anyone into sharpening knives? What’s everyone’s preference, water or oil?
work sharp ken onion blade grinder
and a Dexter 12 inch diamond steel
I can make them hair popping shaving sharp but I mostly use the 800 and 5000 grit belts now occasionally the 320.
I use the diamond steel several times till that seems like diminishing returns then a run at 5000
I get a few knives sharp then start cutting , today we cut up a cow today was cutting most all day
I like 20 degrees on kitchen knives
Posted By: Garryowen
Re: Knife Sharpening - 02/28/21 03:33 AM
Back in the late 50's and 60's I used a small stone 7/8 inches wide and 3 inches long. Used nothing but spit on it to touch up knives and finish with a steel.
Dad had an old Camillus knife that the long blade was broke. We used the small blade to gut fish. All that was need to keep it sharp was a few licks with a steel. No stones, oil or water was used for years. Just a steel.
Still have that small stone. Keep it in my tackle box and sharpen hooks with it.
Garryowen
Posted By: Marty
Re: Knife Sharpening - 02/28/21 03:45 AM
I have found that if my stones are not giving me the result I want I hit it with a file, rough and then smooth, then the stones do well. I think the edges round so the stones are not doing much before a new edge is cut with the file. But I am no expert.
I mostly use smiths tri hone, three stone sharpener. No water or oil. Then the strop with jewelers rouge.
Posted By: Posco
Re: Knife Sharpening - 02/28/21 03:51 AM
work sharp ken onion blade grinder
I bought one of those after watching Bruce T sharpen his knives on one. He didn't have the Ken Onion model but it was a Work Sharp. I've been fiddling with knife sharpening for forty-five years. Stones, diamonds, strops, oil and water. This thing is the cat's meow.
Posted By: TyT
Re: Knife Sharpening - 02/28/21 04:15 AM
I’ve used one of the cheaper Work Sharps but didn’t get great results. Have a Norton 400/1000 water stone and just recently picked up a Norton crystolon fine/coarse oil stone. Leather strop with the green compound makes for a nice finish.
Posted By: Boco
Re: Knife Sharpening - 02/28/21 04:43 AM
Once you learn how to dress up and sharpen a knife blade clean skinning beaver is effortless and fast.
Posted By: beaverpeeler
Re: Knife Sharpening - 02/28/21 04:51 AM
^^^ Amen bro.
Posted By: Drifter
Re: Knife Sharpening - 02/28/21 05:48 AM
Diamond stone then a steel. Wash the diamond stone every so often using dish soap.
Posted By: Turtledale
Re: Knife Sharpening - 02/28/21 09:38 AM
I use my lansky sharpener with oil. I've always had a hard time getting the bevel right when sharpening and this guided system works for me. After that I touch them up with a steel for a while until I need to reset the bevel
Posted By: Bruce T
Re: Knife Sharpening - 02/28/21 10:09 AM
work sharp ken onion blade grinder
I bought one of those after watching Bruce T sharpen his knives on one. He didn't have the Ken Onion model but it was a Work Sharp. I've been fiddling with knife sharpening for forty-five years. Stones, diamonds, strops, oil and water. This thing is the cat's meow.
Work nice don't they
Posted By: vermontster
Re: Knife Sharpening - 02/28/21 12:36 PM
What model do you guys use?
Posted By: EdP
Re: Knife Sharpening - 02/28/21 01:10 PM
I used Arkansas oil stones for decades but changed to a more modern system a little over a year ago. Now I use a Sharpal dual grit diamond stone. It is monocrystaline diamond grit electroplated on SS. It can be used dry, with water, or a light oil. I use kerosene. Then strop on a leather strop treated with with .5 micron diamond grit. Many times all I need to do is dress up a blade on the strop.
Posted By: Bruce T
Re: Knife Sharpening - 02/28/21 01:18 PM
What model do you guys use?
I use the one just for knives.Theres also one that also sharpens axes,etc.
Posted By: charles
Re: Knife Sharpening - 02/28/21 01:42 PM
I have a diamond stone that is made to dress my water stone to keep it perfectly flat.
Around the house I just use the F.Dick Rapid Steel. Only need my stone about twice a year of during deer season.
Posted By: ILcooner
Re: Knife Sharpening - 02/28/21 02:13 PM
work sharp is what I use
I have a diamond steel to touch them up
Posted By: ILcooner
Re: Knife Sharpening - 02/28/21 02:14 PM
I use the both the old Work Sharp and the Ken Onion. I like the old one for knives.
Once I get the blade where I want it I use a steel for touch ups.
I can easily butcher a 2-3 of deer just using the steel along the way.
WS