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Comment by Nate Andrews on January 15, 2011 at 12:09

My goal when sharpening is to get it back to cold steel sharp. A brand-new cold steel out of the box is so freakin sharp my friend shaved a massive piece of his thumb off with one. That's how sharp I want to make mine

Comment by Mackenzie Soileau (sebenza100) on January 15, 2011 at 11:41

I have tried several ways and i find this the best way fo me anways, but I could never really get a good mirror polish it is decent though.

Comment by Nate Andrews on January 15, 2011 at 11:30

Yeah thats exactly how I do it but instead of a leather strap I use a piece of fine marble which works wonders

Comment by Mackenzie Soileau (sebenza100) on January 15, 2011 at 11:04

Ok lets say your knife is really dull first  take the course stone place your blade tilted slightly back and position it to the angle you want your edge and slide down and forward across the stone keep doing that until the edge feels rough.  then you repeat the same process on the fine stone make about 8 to 10 passes on each side.  Then the same on the extra fine.  then i go to my strop using light preasure pull the blade the oposit way while rotating it with the curve of the blade.

 

I hope this isn't too confusing.  Im not good at explaining in text I would have to show you

Comment by Nate Andrews on January 15, 2011 at 10:51

What's the process you go through when sharpening cause the only time I've ever been able to get a blade back to hair popping sharp is after I shapen with a fine stone then go back and resharpen with a piece of marble.

Comment by Mackenzie Soileau (sebenza100) on January 15, 2011 at 10:32

I would also love to learn on a wheel

Comment by Mackenzie Soileau (sebenza100) on January 15, 2011 at 10:30

I am not too sure about the idea of heating and sharpening while it's soft.  To me it seems once it's cooled down it would change that edge.  I have a course, fine, and an extra fine diamond stone that In use to put that edge on it.  the edge should catch and feel sort of rough because it has micro serations.  After the stones i use a leather stop with a honing compound to refine and smooth the edge.  I have literaly shaved my face with my knives ...lmao

Comment by Nate Andrews on January 15, 2011 at 2:12

Personally when it comes too sharpening I would love to learn more of it's art and a better way to do it. I mean I just use a hand stone to shape the blade then various other grades of stone to do the sharpening. I would love a wheel. Personally my friends all say I do the best job of putting an edge back on but I don't feel like the knives are getting as sharp as they could. Any ideas? I would like to have some sort of forge where I can heat a blade then sharpen it while it's soft but it's just an idea that I don't have to resources to attempt

Comment by Mackenzie Soileau (sebenza100) on January 14, 2011 at 23:40

 Ok everyone has their own methods of sharpening their blades.  I personally preffer a good ole bench stone and finishing up on a well made strop with different grades of polishing compounds.

Everyone share your methods with other members.

Comment by Mackenzie Soileau (sebenza100) on January 12, 2011 at 10:25

yea I can't go anywhere with them with out them asking me to use it either that or they just bug me to sharpen theirs.... lmao

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