Cool Convex Sharpening Videos by TwinBlade and Nechako!

TwinBlade said:
Brian, you gonna make me blush...LOL!

Ok first of all, thanks to all for the hearty welcome. Secondly, Brian, I am just glad to be of help to try to educate. A man like you can surely understand this. :D If someone, anyone, can get a little something out of what I put up, I am a happy fella.

Now, I have aspirations...maybe tomorrow when I wake up and brew a coffee...maybe 3, and get the kids in check :D ... to do a video on how I sharpen a machete sized blade to razor sharp using the same set-up. Would anyone benefit from this? The longer edges are a little trickier to do in one swipe, but I have a fairly decent system to doing it. I have the KSF Machete and it has a 13 1/2" cutting edge so it is a good role model.
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I just recieved a new 12" Ontario from one of our awesome members here, and I am yet to give it its initial sharpening; so I would love a video on that.

Thanks in advance bro!:thumbup:
 
TwinBlade said:
Brian, you gonna make me blush...LOL!

Ok first of all, thanks to all for the hearty welcome. Secondly, Brian, I am just glad to be of help to try to educate. A man like you can surely understand this. :D If someone, anyone, can get a little something out of what I put up, I am a happy fella.

Now, I have aspirations...maybe tomorrow when I wake up and brew a coffee...maybe 3, and get the kids in check :D ... to do a video on how I sharpen a machete sized blade to razor sharp using the same set-up. Would anyone benefit from this? The longer edges are a little trickier to do in one swipe, but I have a fairly decent system to doing it. I have the KSF Machete and it has a 13 1/2" cutting edge so it is a good role model.
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Welcome and glad to have you.

I for one would love to see a vid of machete sharpening.

I would also like to know what you guys do for field sharpening. Do you pack a smaller strop?
 
Video is uploading as I type this...it may be done sometime this millennium...apparently I did some excessive talking...either that or youtube is REALLY slow today...
 
Bah, it squished the video and made everything look like A toothpick. I forgot to encode it to WMV. I will have it up tomorrow morning or late tonight when I get home from work.
 
shotgunner11 said:
I would also like to know what you guys do for field sharpening. Do you pack a smaller strop?
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My knives (mostly Bark River’s and Dozier’s) rarely need touch ups in the field.

Though after hard use I will strop them on my jeans or the back of my belt, and that does re-polish the convex edge.

:)

For extended trips into the wilderness a small field hone (Strop) is easy to carry.

I have one made from a piece of paint stirring stick with leather and compound.

I carry it in a zip lock bag.
 
Just wondering... is there any advantage to going edge trailing as opposed to edge leading? When sharpening with sandpaper like this, I usually go edge leading. However, I sometimes do the other way just as successfully. If applying such light pressure, does it matter which direction?
 
Edge trailing is the accepted method for convex sharpening.

If you listen carefully you will hear the edge grinding as you raise the spine to the correct angle.
 
The crew at Bark River grind the convex edges edge leading, but finish the sharpening edge trailing on a buffer.

As per Mike Stewarts advice, when using the belt grinder I grind edge leading, and I find it works good, but when stropping I switch to edge trailing.
 
yeah, I love those videos! Convex edges were the fix type of edges I ever had luck sharpening.

Nice job twin blade!

brett
 
dude, that kicks ass. Nice job.

I just got my stropping compound from BRKT today and I'm gonna go give it a shot.

By the way, Knivesshipfree rock!

brett
 
great info and vids Twinblade, thanks!

just a quick question. if all you had in the field was say the fallkniven dc-4 sharpener, could you still sharpen the convex edge using the same motion you used with the machete as long as you didn't use too much pressure? or is using your jeans still a better option (if all you needed to do was a touch up)?
 
Jeff,

Outstanding. You are very clear and articulate, and your delivery of the presentation is a home run.

Both videos are extremely well done.

Thank you for putting that second one up!
 
Brian Jones said:
Jeff,

Outstanding. You are very clear and articulate, and your delivery of the presentation is a home run.

Both videos are extremely well done.

Thank you for putting that second one up!
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completely agreed. Now I need a barkchette to practice with....:)

Brett
 
Thanks gents for the kind words. All I want to do is help someone out to get the same effortless performance out of their blades as I do with mine.

I want everyone to keep in mind I am quite new (say around 6 months ago that I found Bark River and more importantly for this thread, this method of sharpening) and it is something that has become so natural from the start, it makes me sick the money I have spent on GIZMO's. Friggin gadgets this and gizmo's that...take away the $30 cost for the 2 sticks of compound (which is enough to last a lifetime as far as I am concerned) and you can use any damn leather you want...deer skin, bull hide no matter. as long as it is tight to the stick you glue it to, you are good to go. For the record, that leather in the video is nothing more than a section of a drive belt for a pulley driven drill press at work that was made back when the dinosaurs were humping. I cut a section off of a bulk roll in maintenance and slapped it on some particle board and I can whittle hair with the edges it produces...Convex RAWKS!:thumbup::thumbup:
 
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