Re: O/T knife shapening

Posted by TimV on January 11, 2010 at 04:05:31 from (67.242.35.218):

In Reply to: O/T knife shapening posted by Steiger on January 10, 2010 at 17:26:27:

Steiger: a few thoughts--first, as has been mentioned, you cannot sharpen a knife on a strop--it will make a sharp knife sharper, but it will not make a dull knife sharp. The function of stropping is to roll the very, very thin edge of the knife over so it is straight, remove any burrs along that edge, and polish the edge. While compound will help, it is not necessary--millions of knives have been stropped without it with perfectly adequate results. You can buy pre-made strops but it's just as easy to take an old leather belt, glue it to a piece of board, and use that--I keep several at convenient places like above my workbenches, at hunting camp, etc. The same technique is also useful on chisels, plane irons, drawknives, and many other edged tools. However, it's MUCH more important to get the edge of your knife formed correctly than it is to strop the blade, because without a properly formed edge you can strop until you're blue in the face and your knife will be no sharper. In a nutshell, you use a coarse stone to form the edge and remove any large nicks, then a fine stone to polish the edge and remove any marks from the coarse stone, then a strop to roll the edge and polish out any marks left from the fine stone. You can use additional grits if you have to (I sometimes use 5+ different ones on very dull blades that need to be very sharp) but that's the basics. As a side note, if you're ever lost alone in the woods, a handy technique is to take out your knife and begin sharpening it--withing 10 seconds, 5 different people will leap from the the underbrush to tell you you're doing it all wrong and offer to show you the right way, and all 5 will do it differently!

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