How Hard is it to put an edge on S30v with a Sharpening Stone?

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hey guys. I have a knife that's razor sharp and the blade is s30v. I was wondering if it would be hard to get that razor edge back with a sharpening stone. thanks guys.
 
Depends on the stone, Arkansas stones would take forever and I've never sat down for enough days to find out. If your speaking of ceramics or diamond then it won't be much harder than other quality steels.

What stones are you using?
 
knivesngear said:
hey guys. I have a knife that's razor sharp and the blade is s30v. I was wondering if it would be hard to get that razor edge back with a sharpening stone. thanks guys.
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That would depend on your skill as a sharpener. How do you do on other steels? Can you sharpen them to the edge you want? If you can do it with other steels you can do it with S30V. It might take longer or be faster depending on what other steels you have been used to.
 
Depends on the Stones, Japanese Water Stones should eat it for lunch, Aluminum Oxide Stones will handle it easy, Silicone Carbide no problem... Diamonds and Ceramics, the same.

And Old Arkansas Oil Stone, well you will be there for awhile...
 
I just use a ceramic stick sharpener similar to what cooks use. It keeps the edge sharp and does not take long at all.
 
Waterstones depending on the type can actually be rather un-effective. Most waterstones work best on carbon steels and tend to glaze or cut strange when used with stainless steels, especially PM steels. Some might work but most will be a waste of time on such a steel.
 
knifenut1013 said:
Waterstones depending on the type can actually be rather un-effective. Most waterstones work best on carbon steels and tend to glaze or cut strange when used with stainless steels, especially PM steels. Some might work but most will be a waste of time on such a steel.
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The newer Aluminum Oxide water stones will eat S30V for breakfast.

But then they will also sharpen S90V, S110V, CPM 10V, M4 etc very easy also.

Silicone Carbide water stones will will eat any steel I have seen yet.

Like you said, it depends.
 
very weird actually my post moved down too .... BF is drunk ???

myself said:
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i follow ankerson on that one.
i've pulled a burr on S90V with a 500 beston about as fast as i would have done with a dmt C .... and with a better surface finish
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btw sorry knifenut i missed the start of your post.
 
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I always use a japanese 1000/6000 grit waterstone (IIRC the brand was "King"), an ultra fine sharpmaker rod (ceramic) and some bare leather on my s30v blades - works great - i can see myself in my edges. :)
 
pwet said:
again,

i follow ankerson on that one.
i've pulled a burr on S90V with a 500 beston about as fast as i would have done with a dmt C .... and with a better surface finish
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Waterstones depending on the type
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Thus why I started with this statement.
 
Um, how did my post end up, up there?

This is weird
 
Ankerson said:
Depends on the Stones, Japanese Water Stones should eat it for lunch, Aluminum Oxide Stones will handle it easy, Silicone Carbide no problem... Diamonds and Ceramics, the same.

And Old Arkansas Oil Stone, well you will be there for awhile...
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good. I have a silicon carbide stone.
 
silicon carbide waterstone, not the norton-type-oil-stone-like-never-dish-stone .... you got me ? :D

quality waterstone cuts because they wear ... those coarse "oil type" stones will work, but slower. you'll have to go coarser to remove stock as fast and you'll pay this when polishing ... everything is a trade of ... you'll perhaps save flattening and some money but you'll loose time. and probably edge quality as the more time you spend on the stone the more chance you have to make a wrong move.
 
knivesngear said:
hey guys. I have a knife that's razor sharp and the blade is s30v. I was wondering if it would be hard to get that razor edge back with a sharpening stone. thanks guys.
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I've found it impossible to get a good edge on S30V (Spyderco) with an Arkansas stone. The Arkansas doesn't even phase it, and that's after sharpening on an India stone.

My Gatco ceramic rod takes for f'ing ever to sharpen the S30V, dramatically longer than 154-cm.

I'm getting a 1300 grit DMT diamond stone and am hoping that will get the razor edge.
 
I use dmt stones on s30v with really good results. I stop after extra fine and strop a couple times on diamond paste.
Technically you can put a razor sharp edge on s30v with any decent stone but if time is a concern, synthetic ones will cut faster. Good examples were mentioned on the above comments.
 
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