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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)
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?
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
you cant sharpen a scandi on a hoodoo hone
.....remove the mouse mat ;-)
Ed
.....remove the mouse mat ;-)
Ed
or have mousemat and wet 'n' dry one side of the wood, wet 'n' dry only on the other.
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
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
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
WOW why would C O A R S E be censored?
It's only part of the word!
:-)
TheViking
26-09-2004, 08:44
It's really anoying that we can't write C-O-A-R-S-E... :roll:
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 :censored: icon.....
:-)
Ed
It's really anoying that we can't write C-O-A-R-S-E... :roll:
you just did :lol:
It's only part of the word!
:-)
Oh yeah! Doh!
LOL
Jason
Ed, withour the mousmat it wouldnt be a hoodoo hone :wink:
I couldnt find any other combination stone apart from 240. Could anyone gimme a link for a 600 or 800?
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. :-)
Cheers Scott, Icebear are the manufacturers of the axminster waterstones.
:biggthump
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" (http://www.bushcraftuk.net/community/search.php?searchid=33621) - as the 7 pages of results would surely have answered your question Kitaro.
Keith_Beef
27-09-2004, 09:32
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 :censored: icon.....
:-)
Ed
So we can't mention arsenic, either?
Keith.
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
So it was an honest problem then? I thought you were all joking!
The auto censor was turned on as language was starting to slip into the 'not family friendly' zone.... unfortuanatly the auto censor is a bit over zealous so its starting to be configured to specific words.
It will all be sorted soon :-)
Ed
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 use a spyderco sharpmaker to do just about everything from billhook to nail scisors. Really useful bits of kit and usually a few for export from the US going cheap on ebay.
Cheers
david
On another foum rude words get placed by other onnes in a funny mannor
eg dave you have a small broadsword
haven't some poeple changed the moa knives to a convex edge with some good results?
can u not use like remel multi tools to sharpen knife's/axes ???? :?:
cheers
Moonraker
27-09-2004, 19:56
Ed, withour the mousmat it wouldnt be a hoodoo hone :wink:
I couldnt find any other combination stone apart from 240. Could anyone gimme a link for a 600 or 800?
Jake try Japanese waterstones here:
http://www.d.ic.k.biz/cgi-bin/d.i.c.k.storefront/415860890054bd02274350f3360905 d1/Catalog/1091
or
Dieter Schmid - Fine Tools (http://www.fine-tools.com/japwas.htm)
I see if it censors that link to D.I.C.K's fine tools :lol: google for the store and look for japanese waterstones.
Moonraker
27-09-2004, 20:00
Ed, withour the mousmat it wouldnt be a hoodoo hone :wink:
I couldnt find any other combination stone apart from 240. Could anyone gimme a link for a 600 or 800?
Jake try Japanese waterstones here:
http://www.:***::***::***::***:.biz/cgi-bin/:***::***::***::***:.storefron t/415860890054bd02274350f3360905 d1/Catalog/1091
or
Dieter Schmid - Fine Tools (http://www.fine-tools.com/japwas.htm)
I see if it censors that link to D.I.C.K's fine tools :lol: go here:
[remove."s] d.i.c.k.biz, choose English, Sharpening Tools, Man-Made Japanese and Chinese Waterstones.
so can any body help me ?????
It wouldn't be a great idea - they tend to be too fast and too small for long edges. Not too bad for chainsaws, from what I've seen. But hey - don't take that as gospel, go forth, try it out & if you can get it sussed, let us know!
Paganwolf
27-09-2004, 20:49
do you mean the little hobby grinders? all they would do is serrate the edge giving it a tearing action rather than razor cutting edge and would soon dull and not be much good for anything, arnt they called Dremmel's ??
yea lol there dremmels lol so u wouldnt recomend them not even for an axe
??
Paganwolf
27-09-2004, 21:06
lol :lol: maybe lightly to remove a nick but not too hard as you will destroy the temper on your blade if it heats the edge