Hair Whittling Sharp!!!

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Carlosoraibi

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Hey guys! I always make sure my knives can whittle hair. To me it provides a "cool factor" as well as a slight increase in performance. I've had people want to see my knife, and they end up cutting themselves because they wanted to "test it's sharpness" (apparently on their fingers.) Anyways, my question to you is ; how sharp do you usually sharpen your knives and why? (BTW I'm talking mostly EDC use)
 
For most of my knives, I sharpen them 1000 grit, then strop lightly. This will easily cut phone book paper, but will last a bit too. I don't want to have to sharpen all the time.
For a "yard" knife I will usually just sharpen to 600 and call it a day, since I don't need the super sharp edge to trim branches and such.
 
i have a king stone that sais 800 , thats what i use , im not very good at sharpening yet.
 
Depends on the knife, the native FRN I had in my pocket today will whittle hair easily:)
 
All my knives are hair whittling sharp. I strop them one after the other. It soothes me and makes me feel connected somehow to them. Wow, how addicted am I? :)
 
rwdata said:
All my knives are hair whittling sharp. I strop them one after the other. It soothes me and makes me feel connected somehow to them. Wow, how addicted am I? :)
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You are not addicted any more than the rest of us that frequent this forum. I would say you are pretty normal. Whatever normal is? :confused:

Blessings,

Omar
 
Lets see, today I reprofiled a push knife on my belt sander, then stropped it for a while. It will whittle curls off of my wife's hair.

I stropped about 5 pocket knives, and a large khukri tonight also.

Most of my pocket knives will whittle hair. I strop them frequently to keep them at that level.
 
As a chef, I need my edge sharp and durable.

I can strop on the leather with compounds but it'll only stay that sharp like a few seconds doing prep work, so no point in stroping work knives.
I just use a 8000 grit stone and microbevel the last few passes on the stone.

I strop my sebenza after the 8000 polish and it's scary sharp.

I just started polishing my kukri, never thought to strop it, think I'll give it a go.

I do
 
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