bench stones

[stockmanlover]

i have sharpend lots of knives and all i use is a two sided bench stone and a belt i want to know if other people use and what they think the best way to sharpen is

 

[Jason B.]

Diamond stones and diamond strop compounds, of all my sharpening tools they work the best.

 

[rwasham]

im relatively new to sharpening and dont have a whole lot of experience yet but my best used to yet is my old leather belt that ive been using as a strop....once I figured out I could get knives shaving sharp on that thing sharpening has been a cinch.

 

[Roger999]

Right now I'm in my belt sander phase, if I am sharpening a severely dulled knife I would go with 120, 320, 600, 1200grit belts then I'd switch to a leather belt on the belt sander, it gives me a hair whittling edge in no time.

 

[Dakki]

Carbide stone, Lansky, sandpaper-and-mousepad, Japanese waterstones. I want to try paper wheels, Apex and DMT diamond stones.