Binky
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Post by Binky on Jun 12, 2024 10:11:41 GMT
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Post by jeepers on Jun 12, 2024 10:26:49 GMT
It's like when my wife puts one of my Japanese knives in the dishwasher. There are things you just don't do. Im going to come to your house with a pull-through knife sharpener. |
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Post by jeepers on Jun 12, 2024 10:27:14 GMT
Or my Shaptons. Your choice really.
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Post by LegendaryApe on Jun 12, 2024 10:36:36 GMT
That really sounds like a threat, user jeepers |
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Post by jeepers on Jun 12, 2024 11:11:36 GMT
Can’t talk. Am travelling to Otto’s.
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cubby
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Post by cubby on Jun 12, 2024 11:27:16 GMT
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Post by elstoof on Jun 12, 2024 11:29:16 GMT
Shaptons eh. Looks like we got ourselves a whetstoner
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Post by jeepers on Jun 12, 2024 12:19:50 GMT
Shaptons eh. Looks like we got ourselves a whetstoner Wait until I tell you about my kangaroo hide strop. |
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Post by LegendaryApe on Jun 12, 2024 12:30:04 GMT
This thread has gotten way too kinky
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hicksy
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Post by hicksy on Jun 12, 2024 12:50:20 GMT
/strokes boots
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nexus6
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Post by nexus6 on Jun 12, 2024 13:06:34 GMT
strop me daddy
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mikeck
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Post by mikeck on Jun 13, 2024 8:02:20 GMT
Now I'm going down a rabbit hole looking at whether to replace my lost steel with a diamond sharpener, whetstone or strop. Seems a strop is best used after a whetstone, but I've looked at some strops that make it seem like you don't.
I have global knives in desperate need of sharpening, and also use a Japanese garden knife outside which is getting dull too.
Advice hivemind?
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Post by jeepers on Jun 13, 2024 8:07:38 GMT
Now I'm going down a rabbit hole looking at whether to replace my lost steel with a diamond sharpener, whetstone or strop. Seems a strop is best used after a whetstone, but I've looked at some strops that make it seem like you don't. I have global knives in desperate need of sharpening, and also use a Japanese garden knife outside which is getting dull too. Advice hivemind? Very much depends on budget tbh. At the lower end a double-sided whetstone (300 and 1000ish grit) from King will get you started. Add some leather glued to wood with some green compound to hone. For more money, a 300 or 400ish grit diamond stone for grinding plus a 1000 and 3000ish whetstone plus the strop. When you start getting silly about it, add in some Atoma low grit for repair work and then whetstones as high as you like. For woodwork tools I go to 8000 and then strop on bare leather. Start with the King and see whether you like it. |
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mikeck
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Post by mikeck on Jun 13, 2024 8:13:55 GMT
Thanks Jeepers 👍
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Post by jeepers on Jun 13, 2024 8:48:42 GMT
elstoof may have some useful advice also.
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Post by Danno on Jun 13, 2024 8:51:15 GMT
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minimatt
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Post by minimatt on Jun 13, 2024 9:04:36 GMT
if it's any help i sharpen chisels and planes on a 360/600 600/1000 diamond stone and use a scrap of mdf+compound as a strop. none of this is particularly instagramable but they seem to come out sharp enough
edit: and yep, strop (whatever it's made of) comes after whet/diamondstone edit 2: just checked, it's 600/1000, not 360/600
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Post by elstoof on Jun 13, 2024 9:38:10 GMT
For kitchen knives a honing steel is more useful than a strop
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Post by elstoof on Jun 13, 2024 9:52:46 GMT
Tbh you can do a perfectly good sharpening job with a few sheets of wet and dry sellotaped to your flat kitchen counter top, that way you csn get a feel for what different grits work for you before investing in stones. I’ll do any extreme grinding on rolls of that green Drapers aluminium oxide paper from B&Q long before I bother soaking a stone
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mikeck
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Post by mikeck on Jun 13, 2024 10:13:49 GMT
Thanks all. Was always happy with my steel, but wanted to tart up the process a little 😆
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Post by elstoof on Jun 13, 2024 10:17:08 GMT
Naniwa stones have the best flavour  |
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Post by jeepers on Jun 13, 2024 10:32:08 GMT
A steel will maintain a sharp edge but won’t sharpen (in any sense I’d recognise) the edge.
Great if you keep on top of it and store your knives well.
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Post by drhickman1983 on Jun 13, 2024 10:50:25 GMT
I just have a cheap knife that doesn't do much slice as bludgeon it's way through whatever I'm cutting.
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otto
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Post by otto on Jun 13, 2024 11:45:55 GMT
could this website BE any more centrist dad
/chandler
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Post by jeepers on Jun 13, 2024 11:52:53 GMT
could this website BE any more centrist dad /chandler something something blacksmithing at the weekend |
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Post by elstoof on Jun 13, 2024 12:11:13 GMT
I’ve done blacksmithing!
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cubby
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Post by cubby on Jun 13, 2024 12:12:06 GMT
Of course you have.
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Post by Dougs on Jun 13, 2024 12:18:03 GMT
I have a double sided stone that I inherited (scavenged from my dad's shed). No idea what grit it is - suspect 400/1000. It's good fun. But seems I'm missing a truing stone and probably a guide too, as I doubt very much I can maintain a constant angle. It's very relaxing and cathartic though.
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Ulythium
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Post by Ulythium on Jun 13, 2024 12:22:15 GMT
Just get yourself one of those electric can openers that has a knife-sharpening doodad on the back.
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Post by rhaegyr on Jun 13, 2024 12:24:21 GMT
I've just got one of those pull through things from Amazon that costs a tenner, keeps the knives fairly sharp, no complaints here.
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