The Sharpening Thread

Discussion in 'General Discussion' started by Kevo, Sep 11, 2018.

  1. Drew RedBear

    Drew RedBear Member

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    huh? What did you say? :D

    I can't freehand to save my life lol.
     
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    Yeah I understand. It takes a bit of practice and then alot more practice to get it down good. I kinda enjoy it though. One of these days I'll invest in a 1x30 belt sander
     
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  3. Drew RedBear

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    Has anyone else had issues with the work sharp field sharpener losing the grit on the smooth side really easy? I've only used it a handful of times and it's bare in the middle. I emailed them and waiting on a response but I was just curious. The last one I had didn't have this issue.
     
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    Try cleaning the diamond stones with liberal amounts of rubbing alcohol and a paper towel. Maybe even a little toothbrush action. Clean the ceramic with dish soap or a powdered cleaner, like Ajax or Comet, and a plastic scouring pad. All stones "break in" after use and lose some of their initial bite. But you can keep them from getting loaded up with gunk by cleaning.

    Depending on what I am sharpening my finer abrasives can load up quickly. Just some general suggestions since I don't have that particular tool.

    My Wicked Edge instructions said to do 10-20 sharpening sessions on any new stones to get them worked in for consistency. I asked myself, 10 Junglas or 10 Candiru?? Big difference - LOL.
     
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  5. Drew RedBear

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    I didn't have a stick laying around so yeah I feathered the strop lol. 20210912_222029.jpg 20210912_222237.jpg
     
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    Kitchen knife sharpened on the Wicked Edge WE130. I'm quite happy with the 1000 grit diamond stones, but holding back trying to stay in orbit around the rabbit hole. Rather than going down it.
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    Here you go...

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    A tac black special forces cutter made from a super secret South African steel sharpened on a mil spec honer only issued to certain elite SAS behind the lines operators...swear. :D
     
  8. Strigidae

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    You could go far in the knife world. :)
     
  9. Drew RedBear

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    This Lansky system sucks a$$. It's definitely worse quality than the last one I had but thankfully stropping it helped immensely. 20211006_192646.jpg 20211006_193925.jpg 20211006_212121.jpg 20211006_212219.jpg 20211006_212244.jpg
     
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    @Drew RedBear
    I have had a couple of the Lansky “systems” over the years.
    The newer ones do seem to be going down hill in quality…
    I have found that any that are mostly plastic systems are junk..

    I still go with the “Diamond” sharp I think it is files. I never seem to need more then the medium and fine Grit files and I can get a good utility edge and finish on a old fashion Flexx Strop :)
     
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    For maintaining I usually go with the worksharp field sharpener but some I have to reprofile and the Lansky helps with that.
    I wrote lansky since they have a lifetime warranty so hopefully they'll replace them. If the new ones are just as bad then I'll figure something else out.
    This esee 4 had a really off edge geometry, and you can see in the picture how bad the tip was. 20211006_162843.jpg
     
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  12. Jeff Randall

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    That knife should have been sent back to us if it was that bad. That is unacceptable.
     
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    Ah, it gave me something to do and I don't like being THAT guy who sends in a knife for something minor.
     
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    Jeff Randall ESEE Knives / Randall's Adventure & Training Staff Member

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    Was this a new knife? Reason I ask is that is very strange since I've never seen one come out of the shop that bad. Not saying it can't happen but that is a straight-up warranty issue right there and should never have been sent out. My apologies is this was a new knife.
     
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    It was new, yes, I got it through knifeworks. And thank you Jeff, but no need for apologies, things happen. I got it pretty straightened out. I mod most of the esee's I get so I have to sharpen them afterwards anyway.
     
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    It photos don’t do it Justice.. This is my knife that was lost in a box in a dark, humid and wet garage for over a year. The leather sheath was moldy and destroyed. The blade had pitting including in the edge.

    Now after a good scrub and lots of use I sanded it down and sharpened it to get the last pitting out of the edge.

    The surface pitting on the blade will probably never go away and really doesn’t need to. It is now a good utility Sharp!

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    I like that knife. Who is the maker?
     
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    I believe it is officially a Enzo Trapper 95 in (O1 steel i believe) Scandi ground

    I am the second owner so I do not know if it was originally a kit

    It gets a lot of pocket time!

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  19. Drew RedBear

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    Nice looking blade!
     
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    The O1 Trappers are really nice.
     
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