Any angle guides suitable for a sword?

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yepimonfire

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Been forced to use a smiths pull through on my katana, while it gets it sharp enough to chop shit up, we all know those pull throughs leave less then satisfactory edges behind.

Tried sharpening on a water stone but felt like my skill wasn't up to par enough to maintain a very consistent angle across the entire blade.

Any ideas? Work sharp is out of the question due to limited finances, rather manually do it.
 
What type of sword?

Sword sharpening is kinds a specialized art form, not something you can just run a stone over.
 
Katana. I have waterstones going from 220-8000 grit. Pretty good at getting knives razor sharp.

It's a cold steel warrior series.
 
Pls share what you learned. I'm interested in sharpening my CRKT shinbu. Its not a sword but def sharpens differently from my other knifes.
 
Have to sharpen the entire blade, with periodic focus on the edge portion in a way that creates a convex edge. Google sharpen katana, on backyard cutters forum there is an excellent tutorial. You can expect the process to take about three hours at least.
 
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