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whats the best way to get a hair splitting edge with out useing a sharpmaker (money reasions). ive got several diamond and verious stone sharpeners that i like to use.

for the last month or two my 806d2 has been razor sharp and would touch up easily with a few passes on a diamond hone but for some reasion over the last few days i cant sharpen it worth any thing. its still verry sharp but not sharp enough to split the hair. i think i have touched up the blade so much that the factory angle is gone now.
 
KaBar said:
whats the best way to get a hair splitting edge with out useing a sharpmaker (money reasions).
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You can buy Sharpmaker rods only - they are awailable and fix them in to the bench vise. It will be cheapest way.

I heart about people managed to sharpen knives using combination of brick, ceramic mug bottom, and leather. Some very skilled people manage to do this even with other knife only.

Thanks, Vassili.
 
ok, so you thin back the bevels. not that bad. you don't need a sharpmaker to make a knife hair splitting sharp. i just use the benchstones
 
Strop! You don't need a leather strop even though it helps. You can use some soft pine. I would recommend buying the stropping compound though, which you can apply directly onto the piece of pine. Strop after you have cleaned up the bevel. You could just cut a block of wood against which you can prop your stones, so that they are at 15 or 20 deg. with respect to the normal.
 
well, i fixed my delima for the most part. i dug up my oldest stone that belonged to my great grand dad durring ww2. i dont know why this stone reprofiled the blade so well but i was able to reprofile the blade by hand and get a fairly decent edge on it.

i beleve my problem is that the d2 is wearing out my diamond stone that i normally sharpen with. i tryed to sharpen it on a new diamond rod before i used the old stone but it literally shaved the diamonds off of the rod. i can feel the diffrence between the areas that touched the blade and the areas that stayed fresh.

its not to where it used to be and its only cutting about half of the hairs with a stroke but im confident with a new diamond stone that i can get it to pop all of the hairs.
 
don't press so hard. diamonds are intially rougher, and wear in as you use em. get a dmt coarse
 
thats what i had, i wasent pressing to hard eather but ive used it for a long time. the new one was aparently a pos.
 
Diamonds are aggressive, so keeping an angle constant, or at least making sure you don't roll ONTO the edge is important, b/c one bad swipe will send your sharp edge back to dullville.

I found that a binder clip works fine for those last few strokes honing the edge in. The DMT stuff eats them up, but they're cheap. Just get the black paint off of them first.


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