I use the Ken Onion Worksharp and a Beavercraft ash wood handle leather strop with some simple chromium oxide compound. I can get any knife from dull to shaving sharp in 5 minutes with that set up. Do some anons here actually use whetstones here and is it really worth the effort and time you have to put into it? I remember starting out on a 1000/6000 grit double stone and it would take me at least half an hour per knife to get it shaving sharp and that was with normal 58ish HRC stainless steel kitchen knives. It'd be unthinkable to try and get a hair popping edge on some hard powder steels like M390 with those.
I tried stones, but monkeymind takes over after 5 minutes and I just end up with an evven duller blade. I then got the Lansky set about 10 years ago which was fine for the cheapo blades I had back then but the overall quality and result is quite shite. I got the worksharp guided field sharpener last year and it gets all my knives to a nice working edge quickly.
I'm not completely happy though, I don't know if I wanna go all in and get the Ken onion Worksharp or just the Precision Adjust.
>Ken onion Worksharp or just the Precision Adjust
Alright, but you should know the Ken Onion creates a convex edge and the Precision Adjust creates a V edge. I personally find the convex edge holds up better.
>Other contexts your Worksharp or something else might make more sense.
It's really convenient for hard steels in the 62-63 Rockwell range, like aogami or shirogami, but also high carbide powder steels. It takes forever to sharpen a blade with 4% Vanadium and 1% of Tungsten on stones. The only downside is those steels wear the belts down very quickly and they are proprietary and pretty expensive.
Post your knives actually doing work. I’ll wait.
>let me see your knives so I can say you aren't doing it right and/or don't use them
kek
It’s the “or don’t use them” part 100%. Anybody who starts sperging about vanadium and HRC is a man israeliteelry collector that would cry a little bit if he ever chipped an edge.
Pic related is like nails on a chalkboard for anon
>literal homosexual who owns Apple products pretending to be a man
Still waiting…
>posting his boyfriend's knives
>Apple
>trip
YWNBAM
I’ll be here waiting with my 2 iPhones and a knoife that does work.
The only use those knives saw was stabbing another man's catch and scraping cum off of public restroom floors for future consumption. No apple user will ever be a man. You're beat, effeminate.
Still waiting. At least my knoifes get used to clean cum. I bet your mom’s knoife looks just like mine when she’s done cleaning up after her boyfriend and you.
Why are knife gays like this? Are they 13? Or sub IQ?
Bepis is legit you need to check your tone.
stomp his guts scootyboi don't take shit from anyone
Who?
Still waiting…
For?
See
Still waiting…
NTA, so keep waiting, I guess.
>NIB
Yup, all that HRC and carbinadiums make for real good collectibles next to those pristine old Spider Man comics with plastic covers so you don’t spill cum all over them when you beat the meat to em.
Confirmed for unused knives and collector gays who have no reason to be on an outdoors forum.
Did you mean to respond to someone else, or are you just moronic?
Plssss anon post a used knoife! I’m still waiting and I really need to eat some time!
Who woulda guessed, anon sperging out on HRC and carbides has never used his speshul knifes to do any work.
>everyone in the thread is the person I'm mad at
That'll be moronic, then
>nobody in a knoife collector thread ever goes PrepHole and/or uses their $$$ knives but they constantly talk about how sharp and tough they are
How do you know it’s a good knoife if you have never used it? It’s not a goddamn fidget spinner or baseball card.
He's definitely moronic. Keeps trolling knife threads demanding to see knives and bragging about his phones.
I’m starving. Pls anon post knives that have been used!
The homosexualry and autism in these knife collector threads is second only to the furries.
>The homosexualry and autism in these knife collector
t. autistic pedantic homosexual
Pls anon! A used knoife! Just one! You brag and brag about how great the knoife is but it doesn’t look like you have ever used it!
You'll be waiting forever. LARP tourists never follow up.
I take it you're the kind of guy who will drop everything and spend 5-10 minutes staging a photoshoot for abrasive dipshits you have never met?
Those are a lot of words to say you never go outdoors
>I use my knives how could you tell?
>said the autistic homosexual shitting up a sharpening thread
Still waiting. Chipped a blade cutting some schedule 40 while I’ve been waiting.
who the frick takes a picture of a knife while using it? are you gay? Moreover who takes pictures of themselves doing shit? People who feel the need to prove to others that they do shit? yea you're a homosexual
>excuses and no pic
Post a pic with a knife (one of your knives*) that has battle scars from real world use. I’ll wait.
>post pics of your knife doing work
stabbing a snakehead is work? you could kill a fish with a pencil..
Be honest, how many of you gays are subscribed?
snakehead are such trash fish. Only people who bowfish them deserve any respect.
Ridding the environment of invasive species is real work son!
lmao thinking your even putting a dent in their numbers is masturbatory af
Tbqhwy, it doesn’t take much for recreational fisherman to put a big dent in a population if a good portion of them don’t throw the fish back. Especially in freshwater. I got rid of a bunch of big adults at one of the fishin holes and that spot really slowed down for sneks the next couple years.
Have snakeheads been eradicated from any watersheds once they've taken hold?
We’re workin on it
In all fairness, the DNR could do a better job spreading awareness about it instead of all these PrEP billboards.
>Do some anons here actually use whetstones here and is it really worth the effort and time you have to put into it
depends on context. When i worked in a kitchen i would take good care of my kitchen knife and spend 5 minutes at the end of most days on a whetstone.. just one, not 8 different stones with different grits or anything. Always sharp enough for my purposes and sharp enough to cut hair off the back of my hand. That said, it was a knife made of surgical grade stainless, which is soft and sharpens easy. Other types of steel are harder and don't sharpen on a stone as easily. I also didn't put much damage on that knife generally and didn't need to do much to keep it sharp. Other contexts your Worksharp or something else might make more sense.
Stones are pure muscle memory, I can sharpen a knife while watching something on my cellphone. If you go ceramic, you just splash some water and go, whetstones require some time to soak. But when you get the hang, it stays with you forever.
I understand why some people don't bother, but this thing in your picture will give you some mad convex edges.
>convex edges.
nta but is that a bad thing?
vintage oil stone, it's what my grand dad taught me on, and what I use.
depends on who you talk to. I like a bit of convex. some folks say it has more meat on the edge and will stay sharper longer, but hard to say really
>But when you get the hang, it stays with you forever.
yeah I was gonna say this. Once you learn the fundamentals and get the muscle memory, you can sharpening anything on pretty much anything harder than it.
I mostly use vitrified diamond stones. Super fast and need almost no maintenance.
If I am being lazy I will use a Spyderco sharp maker.
I would start with coarser grit, like 500 on wheat stones if your edge is bad. Ive done same mistake starting with 1000 grit and sharpening lasted forever. First stone that you use should take you to like 90%. then you finish your edge with finer grit all the way to grit you desire. I usually stop with 6000 girt but you can go higher If you have problems with holding angle you can buy that sharpening systems . But I would just skip that, 3d print angle guides and start with stones and bare hands. After while muscle memory will develop and sharpening will be ez. Lots of good tutorial on YouTube. For super fast sharpening belt grinder is the way but you remove much more material so knife life will be shorter and you can frickup blade heat-treatment if you aren't careful with temperatures. Tip from mi is to start with cheap Chineseium kitchen knifes before you go with nicers steels
LMAO you poor, poor people. Having to sharpen your knives when they dull out. I couldn't imagine living such a primitive lifestyle. It's 2023. Just buy a new knife! If you don't have enough spare cash to just buy a new knife anytime you need one, what are you even doing with your life? Even I can afford to do that, and I'm barely making ends meet. After taxes, I only bring home about $180,000 per year. Most people make way more than that. I couldn't imagine stooping to the caveman level where you're having to sharpen your knife. What's next? Starting fires by rubbing sticks together? Are you going to make some boots out of a mammoth hide? Just buy a new knife and use your new-found free time for something more productive. What a waste of time.
Stones are the best. If you maintain your knives regularly you should only have to touch them up on your finest stone. Don't neglect your knives and they take like 5 to 10 minutes to get back to hair popping sharpness. Also, how well does the Ken Onion work on kitchen knives? I can't imagine it working well at all. Especially on Japanese knives with crazy thin asymmetric bevels. Can you sharpen single bevel knives with it?
Trend 300/2000 double sided diamond block and a strop I made from an ancient all-leather footstool my dad bought at a garage sail in the 70s.
Most of my knives are supersteel so basic b***h stones don't actually work very well.
Get the trend lapping fluid--it lasts forever and make sure you have strop fluid, I use the DMT shit... it also lasts forever.
unironically
Are you me?
I have the Ken Onion belt sharpener, its pretty good...don't use it a whole lot unless I really need to doctored up because it was neglected. Also have some diamond plates from worksharp, also work well. I have gotten into the habit of ceramic honing and leather stropping at the end of the day if I use my knife, pretty much never have to sharpen anything anymore.
I scrape mine on concrete
I have one of those Lansky sharpeners with the little V-notches for my pocket folder I'm always carrying. If I'm PrepHole I might carry a puck for my belt knife.
I'm sure plenty of people don't use their knives but I also have plenty of knives that get used that look new. Seems like a pretty pointless metric to gauge use by... Wear is going to pretty negligible with most outdoor tasks or general knife tasks outside of big game processing or batonny chop. I think the only things I have that show noticable wear are tools I use to process wood that are either powder coated or have a phosphate finish. I guess I have watched guys throw their knife into dirt over and over around the fire because they are autistic... Their knives definitely look used.
>Wear is going to pretty negligible with most outdoor tasks or general knife tasks outside of big game processing or batonny chop.
Game carcasses and wood are way, way softer than steel. Depending on corrosion resistance of the steel or proper care for non-stainless steels, knives can look near new for a very long time even after extensive use.
What the tripgay troony ITT is trying to say by "used" is just the anti-rust coating from his ESEE tooth pick popping off which he probably did on purpose by banging it on his tard helmet to get the "ebin reddit vintage look".
>picrel Mora Companion Stainless (12C27 @ ~56-58 HRC just to trigger the trip troony) I have eviscerated 11 deer and 3 boars with that still looks almost new except for some light scratches towards the hilt
>sharpened it literally once to put a convex microbevel on it and ever since the sharpening routine consists of stropping it on leather with some chromium oxide compound to get it back to shaving sharp every time
So profound.
We got a Mora with a couple scratches! Next I’m sure we’re going to see Anon’s ZT that has definitely been used to baton!
What the frick did you even do with the top one lol? I can also use my Makita drill driver as a hammer and then say it‘s ‚well-used‘, but all I‘d do is using it wrong.
See
I think I tested out some buffing compound before that pic too, knoife had to be reshaped a little when the tip broke.
I use a machete for be-heading my chickens when time to put them down or butcher them.
I use the blade on my leatherman that was gifted to me for doing the cleaning of the corpse.
Can anyone recommend a better knife for de-boning/cleaning?
Also I sharpen both items with some sharpener that was gifted along with the Leatherman, it is just a handle and a two sided length of metal, one side is coarse, one side fine, with what different grit material on each side.
Suggestions for a better sharpener I could use for the machete and the Leatherman or replacement deboner/cleaning knife?
Pic related, machete after my last mercy killing, smoothest decapitation yet!
>Can anyone recommend a better knife for de-boning/cleaning?
Mora Fishing Comfort Fillet 155
>Suggestions for a better sharpener I could use for the machete and the Leatherman or replacement deboner/cleaning knife?
Work Sharp Field Sharpener
Thanks based anon
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Can someone tell me why the edge of my knife is chipping off when I’m sharpening it? I think I might be trying to put too sharp an angle on it. It’s just a cold steel bushman I’m practising on and using diamonds stones freehand. I’ve gone back to a coarse grit, taken it back to a smooth edge, but once I start working up the grit the edge ends up looking like this. Is it me or the knife?
what are you using as a stone?
I bought a set of diamond sharpening stones off Ali express. They’re supposed to be used in one of those sharpening devices but I figured I’d give them a go by hand. They work great and the edge is mega sharp, but it just looks shitty. I’m guessing it’s not right and I’m leaving some performance on the table with an eye like that.
I’m doing it freehand so that may be the issue. If that’s the case then all I need is some more practise.
I think so, hard to say. Last time I sharpened it it came out looking like this, I thought I’d chipped the edge using it, so I went back to 240 grit, made the edge smooth again and by the time I got up to 1200 grit it looked like this again.
Looks like you have a problem holding the right angle while sharpening or you are using too fine of a grit and it won't get rid of the chips.
The tearing looks like what a pull through sharpener would do to it. Is the torn section changing as you sharpen? Maybe it started like that and you just have to put some time in on the coarse stone to work it off of the blade?
>finally a pic of a beat up edge
>from trying to practice sharpening
You gotta be kidding me.
i bet my ass youve dug into the corner.
on a whetstone, you chamfer the stone to prevent that. on a diamond plate you gotta keep the knife on the flat at all times
this guys has a good idea here. If you drag your edge off the edge of the stone, it'll act like a pull through, and you'll get some edge tearing with soft metal.
>it'll act like a pull through
no not at all. riding on the corner increases the pressure per area by like 1000%, result is it saws right through the thin apex.
For the same reason, hogging off material on the narrow flat side is a lot quicker but it will wear the stone a lot faster
Gotcha. That does make plenty sense.
Ah no way, I didn’t realise that was a thing but I did notice I’d caught the edge of the stone a few times. This must be it. I’ll go and have another go being a bit more careful and see what happens. Thanks anon.