Ceramic stick sharpening

[hillst1]

Which way do you guys use a ceramic stick? Sharpen with a cutting motion against stick or like a strop pushing away from the blade?

 

[Blackwind]

Usually use a cutting motion against the stick.

 

[jimmyjones]

I've had the best luck sharpening INFI stropping. Either with a steel, ceramic, sandpaper.

INFI seems to like it backwards from other steels. You loose less metal, and if done properly, a wire isn't an issue.

Sharpening
INFI's high level of chip resistance also makes it the easiest steel to resharpen by hand that we have ever encountered. I personally fall into the category of "hand sharpening challenged". I've heard tales of those who can sharpen ball peen hammers to a razor's edge on an Arkansas stone in less than 5 seconds flat. My experiences have always been to the contrary. The spine of the knife is usually sharper than the edge when I'm finished applying my magic stone sharpening technique. One of the great features of INFI is that simply stropping away from the edge (the way a barber strops a straight edged razor) on a ceramic stick is basically all that is required to resharpen INFI. Since you're not chipping steel off the edge there is no need to grind any steel away. This feature of INFI will, likewise, allow you to keep the same overall profile of the knife for a much greater period of time.

From Busse Combat http://www.bussecombat.com/infi/index.shtml

We've got some sharpening guru's around here, someone more skilled then I will chime in.

 

[idahoskunk]

i do it both ways, seems infi likes it in the rear a lil more



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[gustav]

Usually use a cutting motion against the stick.

i do it this way too.

 

[leatherman]

i do it both ways, seems infi likes it in the rear a lil more



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Too Much Information!!!

 

[zephy5]

I do it like the boss says "away from the edge." Really seems to work well.

 

[theonew]

I've been finishing using a cutting motion on very fine ceramic using the lightest stroke possible. Works well for me.

 

[mfaster7]

I do it both ways depending on the edge geometry. Convex gets stropped and v-grind gets cut
But what do I know?

 

[RussMo]

I do it both ways depending on the edge geometry. Convex gets stropped and v-grind gets cut
But what do I know?

+1 here--depends on the geometry.

 

[Patrickknives]

I do it both ways for two different reasons. 1) if the edge is dull and needs to be resharpened I use a cutting motion into the rod, 2) if the edge is sharp but needs to touched up, I push away from the edge. I always end the sharpening with #2.