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New Falkniven Ceramic and Diamond Whetstone.

I have been sharpening with three Naniwa waterstones for some time now, I guess I bought them around ten years ago. They have proven to be very useful for carbon and the softer types of stainless. However Queens D2 was not at all to their liking and 440c did seem to wear the coarse stone rather more than I liked.

Having a few knives with the harder types of steel has meant trying some different approaches to sharpening , You Tube is kind of helpful for sharpening video's I find. I have found wet and dry sand paper in combination with a home made strop to have been very good for convex edges.

The strop consists of a piece of wood from out of the shed , one of those rare occasions that I get to use something that was "put away" for just such a use. The leather was rescued from an old leather chair that was going to the dump.

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Permalink Reply by John Bamford on November 6, 2014 at 10:21

Today I got my Falkniven Dc4 stone which is my first try with diamond , it is a combination one side diamond and the other ceramic .It seems to do a very good job on a GEC 47 though it has 1095 which is not too difficult to deal with.

Permalink Reply by John Bamford on November 6, 2014 at 10:27

The gold side is the diamond and the darker is ceramic ,all in all a nice little stone to carry around .

Permalink Reply by John Bamford on November 6, 2014 at 10:32

I have ordered the Edge Pro today from my friend Greg at TSA and so with these new additions to my armoury I should be able to get the edge my knives deserve !

The stone was about £17 here around $27 I think.

When I have finished spending on sharpening gear I hope to get back to the more important job of buying knives.

Permalink Reply by John Bamford on November 6, 2014 at 13:16

Well I have been playing with this new stone for the last couple of hours and I am very impressed . It is a toothy edge but after a minute on my strop it is all smoothed out and SHARP , it is hard to see how my new Edge Pro will improve on this.

I guess that is not really the point though I want to be able to know what angle I have on a knife and be able to reproduce it.Ah well I will find out in a week or two unless it get's intercepted and put away for a Christmas present !

Permalink Reply by Steve Hanner on November 6, 2014 at 14:54

Well done John, yes D2 is some hard steel. I so far have kept my Queen Fixed Blade sharp with a few touchups on the strop. A complete reprofile well might be a bit difficult for me using freehand.

Permalink Reply by John Bamford on November 6, 2014 at 15:09

That coarser Japanese waterstone just wouldn't touch the D2 Steve. I have had a rub at my Queen Cattle King and it did seem to react to the diamond stone, with a little bit of ceramic after and a polish on the strop it does seem very sharp. Though to be fair it wasn't blunt , it will be interesting to see how the Edge Pro stones will cope with such a hard steel.

Permalink Reply by Brad T. on November 6, 2014 at 15:19

I took my Kershaw JYD 2 that has the CPM D2 composite blade up to the 3000 grit polishing tape on my Edge Pro. It can handle D2 just fine.

Permalink Reply by John Bamford on November 6, 2014 at 15:37

That does look like a nice edge I am looking forward to getting similar results and glad to hear that D2 is okay on it.

Permalink Reply by Brad T. on November 6, 2014 at 15:43

I put that edge on there to see if it could it and I was not disappointed. But, I did bring it back down to 1000 grit finish so I could continue to slice food more easily.

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