FAT ASH sharpening help.

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madborderman07

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Can anyone give me a link to any advice on sharpening an ASH-1. Can I use my sandpaper/strops or is there a super secret trick? thanks in advance, and im sure this may be on here somewhere so if its easier give me the link. One of these days I will quit being cheap and get a membership.
 
I strop mine with 1200 or 1500 wet & dry sandpaper on a mouse pad or my leather strop and then finish it off with a stropping on the leather charged with buffing compound (available from most spray paint suppliers). Only takes a few minutes and the edge is like a scalpel. After time, the edge will end up being convex shaped.
 
I just send mine to Justabuyer.


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whose got time to sharpen......I am always beating mine



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knife hunter said:
I just send mine to Justabuyer.


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whose got time to sharpen......I am always beating mine



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I beat my CG BATACso bad some days it runs away from me :D they need a knife protective program :D

I strop mine an magazine covers, the shiny ones. forgot who told me that but thank you for the good advice :)
 
Blood_Grooves said:
I beat my CG BATACso bad some days it runs away from me :D they need a knife protective program :D

I strop mine an magazine covers, the shiny ones. forgot who told me that but thank you for the good advice :)
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Blood Hooves Ive heard about the magazine cover deal. Does it work pretty well? I am about to buy a Lee and Valley strop.
 
the Magazine thing works VERY well. this is what i do...

This bus thing, they give for free at my library has this cover, that is glossy so i use that.

it it about 5in wide and 7 in tall. fold in half so its only 2.5in wide.

i put it on the arm of my computer chair that has cutions, and i just strop on that. it gets it shavin' sharp so i guess it works pretty well. :)
 
so is it a good idea to work the edge down with sandpaper 1st ? I have a JRE strop bat, it is a 4 sided strop with all the different compunds on it and a homemade strop as well with some compound I bought at a hardware store, i guess i will get to stropping my ASH!!! whoops that dont sound right
 
I put a wide edge on it with the edge pro (wrong angle) so I ground the edge down, and sent it back to Busse. I find it hard to sharpen wide bladed knives with the edge pro, but I sharpened the ASH again at the right angle, it looks just as from Busse, and is shaving sharp. :thumbup:
 
Gerber: I am getting and Edge Pro soon. Why do you find it hard to sharpen the ASH? What angle did you first do that was wrong? What new angle did you put on it?
 
I put a polished edge on it with the edgepro. 40 degree angle inclusive. That way my Sharpmaker works great for maintaining a hair whittling edge.
 
I put it on the blue setting, which created the slightly wider edge. (Did not look bad at all, I am just really picky. And then I sharpened it at blue again,(with new stones from Ben Dale) it was the uneven stones that made my edge wider on the belly, so it is really important to keep your stones flat, because it can really change the angle. :eek:


norcalblacktail said:
Gerber: I am getting and Edge Pro soon. Why do you find it hard to sharpen the ASH? What angle did you first do that was wrong? What new angle did you put on it?
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madborderman07 said:
so is it a good idea to work the edge down with sandpaper 1st ? I have a JRE strop bat, it is a 4 sided strop with all the different compunds on it and a homemade strop as well with some compound I bought at a hardware store, i guess i will get to stropping my ASH!!! whoops that dont sound right
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you can cover the stop with something like plastic, then put the sandpaper over that and convex the edge which is what i do. works pretty well for me and gets it pretty sharp by itself.
 
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