home made ceramic sharpener

[beyondmyken]

Is there a way to make your own ceramic sharpener? How about adding industrial diamond dust to it as well.

 

[Bruz]

Hmmm, I'm assuming they use very high pressure to extrude the ceramic to make it so dense...reckon if you get the right grit powder you could make one by just pouring in a mold, same with the diamond dust?

 

[brownshoe]

I've read accounts where people use old plates and bricks as sharpeners. These would be "homemade ceramic sharpeners."

 

[beyondmyken]

Yes, now I remember that I read a piece by David Boye that he has sharpened a knife on a coffee cup. Hmmm, I wonder if my wife will mind if I use her grandmother's china?

 

[Grapevine]

I still remember seeing my Mom and aunts using the bottom of ceramic bowls to sharpen their knives when I was a little kid. Growing up, I don't remember ever seeing a benchstone of any kind. Though I must admit, I don't think the knives we had were all that sharp.

 

[pyrguy]

Back in the '80's working in the oilfields we used the ceramic inserts in a "Choke". There was a regulated opening in the insert that choked the oil/gas back to usable pressure. The oil/gas usually had some abrasive sand in it and wore the opening larger. When it got too big it was replaced.

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