No matter what i do i cant seem to get any of my knives hair whittling, i use a lansky system with the sapphire stone, then strop with stropman compounds, the knives are razor sharp, shave with weight of knife alone yet i cant whittle hair, is it a form issue? is there a way i have to hold the knife or hair? ive tried over and over and cannot do it.
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cant get hair whittling
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It could be that there's a really small wire edge on the knife. Have you tried looking at the edge under magnification.
Also, if you want the knife to whittle hair, the edge needs to be really refined, what are you using as your finishing stone?
There's in my opinion a big step from shaving to whittling and to get to that stage you need proper technique and patience, don't give up just yet.
Also, if you want the knife to whittle hair, the edge needs to be really refined, what are you using as your finishing stone?
There's in my opinion a big step from shaving to whittling and to get to that stage you need proper technique and patience, don't give up just yet.
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The Lansky with sapphire stone should be able to do it.
I have done a 2 stage 600 grit sandpaper to strop with cheap green chromium oxide, and gotten hair whittling.
No extra steps.
One thing, I find with the lanky system I tend to be heavy handed. Especially with low grit stones, which increases the chances that the high ever grit and polishing stones are only hitting the shoulders. The rods are easy to bend under pressure.
I have done a 2 stage 600 grit sandpaper to strop with cheap green chromium oxide, and gotten hair whittling.
No extra steps.
One thing, I find with the lanky system I tend to be heavy handed. Especially with low grit stones, which increases the chances that the high ever grit and polishing stones are only hitting the shoulders. The rods are easy to bend under pressure.
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Make sure you have a burr across the entire edge before you go to stropping. No burr or wire means you haven't created an edge.
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hold the hair root out and try that . get that burr up the lenght of the blade with the med. stone from there on use very light pressure as you go up in grit, ditto with the strop
Hello fisher2, We are glad you achieved your goal. Can you tell us what you did that helped you get there? It may help someone else that was in your position.
well i knew my knife was razor sharp so i looked under a microscope and found that there was a few tiny dings (not visable at 30x but noticeable at 200x) so i took to the loaded strop, i use stropman compounds i did 30 on one side on the rough black compound(i think 4 microns) then i flipped, then 15 on one side flip, 7, flip 5, flip 1, flip 1,flip 1 flip 1 flip, and then repeated on the white compound (2 microns if i remember) did the same thing then i switched to green and did the same thing, i spent alot of time making sure my angle is perfect(im pretty good at freehand anyway so)
, then i went back to microscope and looked, dings were gone so i tried, i have to drag more of the blade than i expected to need to so i may need some touch up, or im just not actually getting the blade on the hair for the first few inches