Jig Sharpening January and Free Hand February

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Just seeing who'd be interested in finishing January sharpening only with some sort of guided method, then converting over to free hand for February. A lot of January is gone, but l just thought of it tonight.
 
Not sure exactly what you mean.
I do both every month.
I was just touching up my Buck 110 with my Spyderco Ultra Fine triangle rod and probably this Sunday I will be doing a more through job on it with my Edge Pro. The edge has two little dings.

Had this 110 since '81; most of the last twenty years it has set on my dresser while I carried all manner of new fangled thing. Always modding handles and wishing for . . . something . . .

After EDCing the old dude this last week . . . maybe what I been wishing for is that the new fangled things were more like the 110 . . . handle wise anyway.

No don't ask me to do major sharpening free hand only for a month . That would suck.
 
Some people only sharpen freehand, other only use some form of guided method. Its just an attempt to get people out of their comfort zone.

I mostly use guided methods, but i have a couple knives that are freehand. It will be nice to see a nice more even bevel of known angle and see how far of l am from what l think. Also, it'll be interesting to see if I can get knives sharper with one vs the other, and I figure l need a couple weeks practice at least with each to tell.
 
And yes, you should definitely try rebeveling or other major sharpening free hand if you've not done it in a while. That's for next month though.
 
I've had a lansky 5 diamond grit for several years. It's not been used much. The only thing I find it can do a little better than my freehand is flat bevels and even/consistant angle. There's nothing fast, or versatile about it.
 
I use a DMT Aligner clamp, some guide blocks, and a Sharpmaker. I also freehand when the mood strikes. Some people are adamantly against one or the other. I didn't realize what I was missing until I tried the Aligner clamp with a Norton bench stone. Now l am able to get almost as sharp by hand, but it's a bit faster.
 
Ok this is january
angle wedges/ramps made by folding/taping junkmail cardboard / postcard,
put sharpening stone on it and hold knife horzontally,
thats one stone no spin sharpmaker :)

also in upper right corner ,
a piece of cardboard bent/taped to the spine,
it started off without tape,
same as angle clamp,
make sharpening cheap/easy,
just measure the width of your blade with a ruler,
then punch that plus angle into triangle-calculator (or use 1:60 rule)
then you cut a square of paper and tape it to the spine

yeah yeah I know, if you gotta type up a description the pictures could be improved :)
but it only took me 3-4 years to try this version :D
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