DMT Dia-sharp

Kenix

Kenix

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Flipped the good old Sharpmaker over today to try using the rods as benchstones and found that it's quite easy and much more fun than using the rods in the angle slots. So I decided to pick up some DMT Dia-sharp stones as a foray into freehanding.

So far, I'm planning on picking up the 6" Coarse and Fine stones. Don't think I'll be needing the 8/10/11.5" sizes. Does this sound like a good plan to pair with the Sharpmaker? And for sake of saving $10, is it advisable to get the Coarse/Fine combo 6" over two separate stones?
 
I got a set of 8" Dia Sharps a month or so back and at this point you'd have to pry them from my cold, dead hand lol. Ive got the X,C,F,E but if your not trying to do too much crazy rebevling you'll be just fine with the C,F. I don't know if there is any advantage or disadvantage to the one sided vs two sided thing other than the money. I'll let someone else chime in on that.
 
The 8in are the only set that have the XXC & XXF, this simply means when you want to expand your stone set you don't have to get different stone sizes. Larger stones are easier to work with.
 
Haha 6" -> 8" -> 11.5". You guys just want me to stretch my budget don't you.

What I'm more concerned with is the grit combination of coarse and fine dia-sharps with the sharpmaker ceramics. Is the coarse enough to do basic re-profiling of S30V, D2, M4, ZDP-189? I'm not talking about turning the spine into an edge, but making a relatively dull blade sharp in a few minutes. And by that I mean a few minutes on the coarse followed by a few minutes on the fine, then a few minutes on the sharpmaker, then strop.
 
Can anyone shed light on this? I'm picking up a sharpmaker and want to know if the 4 or 6 inch DMT DiaSharp Coarse is good enough for taking off a chip or slight reprofiling.
 
emman714 said:
Can anyone shed light on this? I'm picking up a sharpmaker and want to know if the 4 or 6 inch DMT DiaSharp Coarse is good enough for taking off a chip or slight reprofiling.
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As far as I know the DMT coarse would work fine. Depending on the hardness of your steel, it seems to take off enough metal if you try or less if you go easy. IIRC it's comparable to 325 grit sandpaper if that helps you any.
 
hoopster said:
As far as I know the DMT coarse would work fine. Depending on the hardness of your steel, it seems to take off enough metal if you try or less if you go easy. IIRC it's comparable to 325 grit sandpaper if that helps you any.
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Thanks. I plan on using it with my izulas if they get too beat up when i;m camping.
 
The blue/red combo is by far the most used of all my DMT's. I'll pull out the black (XC) for edge damage and serious reprofiling, but coarse and fine are great for 90% of my sharpening needs. A lot of my knives never see anything else.
 
sodak said:
The blue/red combo is by far the most used of all my DMT's. I'll pull out the black (XC) for edge damage and serious reprofiling, but coarse and fine are great for 90% of my sharpening needs. A lot of my knives never see anything else.
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+1 here. Very seldom will one of my blades see the XC twice in its life. Once the profile is set, I rarely go back below Fine, only if I've beat the snot out of it. As OCD as I am about my blades, most times a 1 micron diamond on a felt stop is as course as I need to go lol.
 
Kind of unrelated, but does anyone know where to find a good base for the dia-sharp 8" stones? I can only find DMT's Duo-sharp holder that's also supposed to work for 6" stones.
 
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