How do you sharpen a knife.

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I was just wondering what your guy's technic was for sharpening pocket edc. or fixed blades with a stone. I have read books and looked on the internet and seen many ways, ie. Sharpen the blade like your slicing into the stone with the sharp edge,or sharpen with back of knife first with the sharpened edge facing you pulling away from yourself.Hope that makes sense.
I usually sharpen it with the edge first as if slicing into the stone,but as of late I am having problems getting my crkt m16 AUS 6 blade sharp. I don't know whether I have lost the ability to sharpen knives or if it's the knife material it's self.
I don't want to know what book to read I just want to see the main way everyone seems to sharpen blades. Thanks Dave.
 
I prefer to stick with sharpening with a stone. I never had a problem before just as of late I seem to be having problems,whether it be the knife blade steel or me. All help is appreciated, i.e pictures and what have you. I used to sharpen with blade slicing into stone, but recently with this knife I can't seem to get a good edge. I started digging around and have seen articles and books saying the way i sharpen the knives is wrong, thats why I have started second guessing the way i was sharpening.
Thanks again Dave.
 
when i use a stone, i usually slice into it, unless i am sharpening a convex blade. if i am sharpening it convex, i will use an edge trailing motion, because i find i have less control, forming a convex edge.

try the sharpie trick: take a sharpie and color the bevels in. take a couple of strokes on the stone like you normally would, then look at the side you just sharpened. where the sharpie rubbed off is where you sharpened.

it seems likely to me that you are just not hitting the edge, and grinding the shoulders of the bevel instead. using the sharpie trick will tell you exactly where you sharpened.

this is how i typically sharpen on a stone:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWQZ_yEyVM8
 
What are your thought's on the Oregon stone med grit and super fine grit? i see alot of people use Arkansas stone, I'm not a big fan of Diamond. I also should mention i tend to just use the super fine grit to sharpen the blade. Maybe I should be using the coarse grit first. I was under the impression you shouldn't have to use coarse unless the blade of the knife is extremely dull or the blade damaged like chipped or what have you. By looking at all the pictures and things it seems everyone uses coarse grits first wether the blade uses it ir not. I won't ask anymore questions I promise and if it all doesn't work i'll go to using a sharpening kit.
Thanks Dave.
 
dave, don't worry about asking questions. if noone asks questions then we all just sit around twidling our thumbs and trying to figure out new things to test sharpness with...

typically the guys around here use a coarse grit to even out the bevel and often to thin the bevel out some (to make the knife cut better). after the bevel is in the right shape (and it should be sharp at even the coarsest grit or else you will be doing alot more work at the finer grits) then you can polish it to a higher bevel.

you can do all of the above steps on a super fine stone, but it will take a whole lot longer and be much more frustrating.

for stones i typically just use my basic hardware store two sided stone, it does all i need in a stone. i have been thinking about some ceramic stones and some proper diamond bench stones though...

you might try japanese water stones too.
 
Thanks again. I think I will use a the coarse tonight and grind the tar out of it and then the smoothto finish it up. Cheers
 
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