Anyone you trust sharpening your slippy's?

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not-too-sharp

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I just purchased a knife from a fellow forum member here and I'm thrilled with EVERYTHING about it... Except the edge. Were talkin butter knife dull :eek:
Which leaves me with two questions.
1.Whats your experience with Bulldog Knives edges out of the box?
And 2. Is there a forum member who will sharpen the aforementioned knife for a fee, but do so without scratching the blade etc.?
Also if you are a forum member who provides sharpening services, please PM me.
Thanks in advance. -Andrew
Edited to add: I've tried to re-hone the knife already myself, but the 1095 on this bulldog knife is too darn hard for my sharpening stone.
 
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Hope you get an answer.
I would trust more than a few here to have the skills for 1095 and not scratching the blade.
But in the long run you need a good stone and to develope your own skills. I recomend you to by a Fallkniven DC4 frehand stone with bouth diamonds and cheramic. Practise first on a good, not to hard knife. for ex a SAK. If you scratch it you start to know how to adjust that and you can polish it back to respectable with fine wet sandpaper ex 1000 grit. Its fun and almost nesisarry to be able to sharpen a knife in a good way.

Bosse
 
Your Bulldog is probably made by GEC and frankly they don't have a great record of "Sharp out the box" knives. Most of mine needed touching up to a greater or lesser extent. Once they were done they were razor.

I cannot offer advice on who to go to for sharpening. However I have read many good things about RichardJ but I don't know if he does sliplocks.

Good luck with your quest!

Steven
 
I have only just got to the stage realy of putting an edge on a blade, I think I have to be honest with myself and admit that even though its sharp, and a very nice even line...it could be a lot better.
With stropping is my next lesson, I now have three strops, and admit that I need much to learn on how to strop properly and 100% affectively.
And in reviewing....I still have only a coarse/fine long typical norton, carberundum (sp?) stone, and havent moved on to the ceramics...so lots to learn, and I would like to learn for myself, and stop having to rely on other good people to sharpen MY knives that I so deeply have affection for.
Im guessing this is a personal thing?...sorry to sound silly,just trying to explain how we feel about our knives ( hence the beginning of this thread :o )
But I am glad where I am now-although not great...but getting there.
 
If we talk about a knife that will be sharpened and put into a collection and not being used there can be meaningfull to have realy even angles and sharp as a womans toung.

But if its an EDC it will get dull as you use it.
If you are good enough at sharpening so you can hold a good angle frehandedly it will provide a thin convex edge good enough for every day cutting. I myself think that a edge that shaves armhair or even hangs in a nail is adequate. If you can bring it there yourself you can realy use your knife without the fear of wrecking the edge and resharpen easily if nesisarry.
My advise is: dont use Harder steel than you can deal with.

Bosse
 
Andrew,
You say you tried it yourself. That tells me right there you are willing to try to do it yourself,learn it better
It sounds like if the 1095 was too hard for your stone,you might need to get some different stones.Start out with a diamond stone & then go to an Arkansas type & then finish it off with another.Going from course to finer. It may come way easier to you with a few more tools for the task.
Relying on someone else to sharpen your EDC pocketknife is really not a good thing,IMHO.
In this forum (The whole BF's) there is info on sharpening just about anything.Descriptions,w/pics,galore
Good luck & have fun with it!
-Vince
 
Frankly, I doubt the steel is too hard for the stone. I've sharpened ZDP-189 at Rc67 on a carborundum stone. It just takes time.
 
use sandapaper and some leather, if it's made by gec you can get ti scary sharp in half an hour or so, google "bark river convex guide" and check out the tutorial, I started from there some time ago and it worked, now I've improved my skills but that tutorial started the convex crazyness

you probably need to thin out the edge or create it if it's not there or too obtuse it's not hard at all, with some marker for edge angle and some tape to save it from scratches you'ere good to go

Maxx
 
nirrebosse gives great advice--you really need to get some d.m.t. diamonds & spydie sharpmaker. gecs 1095 is fairly tuff to sharpen for beginners but a knife is a personal thing & you need to learn the maintenance.--dennis
 
I personally use DMT stones, a ceramic stick, and a leather strop. It may cost a bit up front to find something you are comfortable using but it really is worth it in the long run. Move from coarse to fine... I remember the chore it was to re-profile/sharpen some of Queen's D2 when I only had a fine DMT stone... Its doable, but takes a long time.
 
Since this is primarily a sharpening thread at this juncture, moved to "Maintenance" with a link left behind in "Traditional"
 
Thanks for all the responses guys. I've been sharpening knives on an Arkansas stone since age 8, and have always stropped them on a leather belt. I've actually never had someone sharpen one for me, but this goes beyond touching up a poorly done factory edge.
I will eventually put some time, money, and effort into re-profiling and recreating relief grinds on my knives but not just now. I just want the knife to have an edge that I can strop and re-hone like all my other knives.
 
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