Dull eskabar bk-14

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B.A.BLADE

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Hello, new here and would like a recommendation for a sharpening service to get my eskabar back into shape. Thank you .
 
A lot of manufacturers offer sharpening services for their knives if you just send it back to them but nothing beats the satisfaction of wheting an edge yourself
 
Butcher1
thank you for the advice. I agree with you and have used the service provided by Buck and Bench-made. Unfortunately, Becker has no such service.
 
How dull is it? Sharpening is really not rocket science,if you are intelligent enough to use the internet you should easily be able to learn how to sharpen. Get a Spyderco Triangle Sharpmaker, simple as can be!
 
B.A.BLADE said:
Hello, new here and would like a recommendation for a sharpening service to get my eskabar back into shape. Thank you .
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Lansky diamond turnbox is dead cheap and easy to use. You won't ever have to send off a knife again.
 
B.A.BLADE said:
Hi, Bobby. I'm in Tucson AZ.
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Ahh, was gonna say if you were near me I'd sharpen it up for you..Beckers take an excellent edge...I'd personally go with the sharpmaker over the similar styled lansky one. Also simply using sand paper will get you a nice sharp edge, if you use it over a mouse pad you can create a convex edge which you can easily maintain with a strop.
 
OK, I pulled the trigger on the spyderco. I like the idea of doing it myself. Usually I can get a knife sharp enough to cut butter... hopefully I'll do a bit better with this tool. Thanks for the input and recommendations. I'll have to show a pic after the sharpening. The knife is an old beater but I love it. -B.A.
 
If it's truly 'dull', the standard Sharpmaker rods aren't going to work very well. The brown medium rod is 1000grit. The white fine rods are 2400.

But 1095CV is not that diificult to sharpen so no need to buy the diamond/CBN rods. Just wrap the standard rods with 200~500 grit sandpaper.
 
TravisH said:
If it's truly 'dull', the standard Sharpmaker rods aren't going to work very well. The brown medium rod is 1000grit. The white fine rods are 2400.

But 1095CV is not that diificult to sharpen so no need to buy the diamond/CBN rods. Just wrap the standard rods with 200~500 grit sandpaper.
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Are you sure? I pulled this off a post here on the forums.

Spyderco Medium stone is 20 micron, gritsize 600 in the US, and gritsize 1000 in Japan.
Spyderco Fine stone is 6 micron, gritsize 1200 in the US, and gritsize 2500 in Japan.
Spyderco UltraFine stone is 3 micron, gritsize 2000 in the US, and gritsize 4000 in Japan.


Cause 600 grit would be enough to sharpen dull 1095cv
 
TravisH my Spyderco Sharpmaker rods are one pair coarse dark gray in color and one pair fine in white. I have 3 other friends and relatives with Sharpmakers and their sets look the same, i've never seen a set with brown rods. But then i haven't bought any of the extra fine or extra coarse auxiliary rod sets so i can't comment on those. The sandpaper trick is a good idea though.
 
Bobby3326 said:
Are you sure? I pulled this off a post here on the forums.
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Pretty sure.

From Spyderco, Medium 15 micron, Fine 6 micron, Ultra 3 micron.

From DMT, Fine 25 micron / 600 grit, Extra Fine 9 micron / 1200 grit.

There's a chart on here somewhere.

From a technical site, I found these formulas:
micron = 14992 x (mesh ^ -1.0046) , or simplified: micron = 15000 / mesh
mesh = (micron / 14992) ^ (1/_1.0046) , or simplified: mesh = 15000 / micron

Compare these results of these formulas to DMT's numbers and you'll see they are fairly accurate.

Therefore, 15 micron ~= 1000 grit.


Regardless, having tried to sharpen dull edges on the SM Medium rods, I know it's a waste of time. ;)
 
TravisH said:
Regardless, having tried to sharpen dull edges on the SM Medium rods, I know it's a waste of time. ;)
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+1

Sharpening is not rocket science, but if you do not have sharpening experience, and you go out and buy a Sharpmaker (and you are trying to sharpen a very dull knife with a factory edge), you may end up frustrated and disappointed. With a little adjustment of technique and the addition of the diamond or CBN rods, you can avoid that frustration and disappointment. I'll cut and paste here from previous posts I've written on this topic:


Magnaminous_G said:
If you want to get the SharpMaker, that is fine, too. It’s a great system... with a few caveats. You will need the diamond or CBN rods if it is going to be your primary system (and those cost as much as the basic set), so you’ll have to spend about $110 total if you are buying new. And you’ll have to modify your technique. I do not recommend the Spyderco DVDs because Sal does not demonstrate sharpening a totally dull, dinged up knife from start to finish. (There's a reason people jokingly call it the "SharpKeeper.") But that’s exactly what you are going to be doing. The official one-stroke-alternating style will simply be too slow (see the video I made years ago below, which is also mentioned in RayseM’s post above -- I did not invent this method. I learned it from CrimsonTideShooter, aka J. Davis). If you try to sharpen a truly dull or damaged edge the official way (especially if you are using only the stones they provide you with the base system), it will just be too slow to be worth your time that way when there is a much more efficient way to do it.
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Common question: Is the Spyderco Sharpmaker a good system, and can I sharpen a dull edge (i.e., reprofile) with it?

Answer: Yes! But I strongly recommend you get the diamond rods. Check out the vid below to watch my technique for reprofiling a dull, damaged factory edge with the Sharpmaker. It can indeed be done and done quickly. With the diamond rods, the Sharpmaker will do everything you need a set of stones to do. They are expensive but worth every penny. A note on the ceramic rods that come with the set: the stones are very hard ceramics and need to be cleaned every few uses. Use a scouring pad. They are also quite fragile, so don’t drop them or treat them roughly. Lots of people have chipped or broken their Sharpmaker rods by accidentally dropping them. Spyderco has good customer service (in my experience) and will replace a rod if it is chipped from the store (and they sometimes are, especially the brown “medium” rods).
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And here is the video mentioned in both posts:

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