Need help sharpening please !!

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dbreeze225

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hi every one i don't know if this is the place to ask this question but cant find anywhere else so here it goes. i have a couple of swords and daggers and also a couple pocket knives that get alot of use they need to be sharpened i want to get them as sharp as a razor or as sharp as possible. i have tried some of the handheld sharpeners and also table mounted sharpeners that you pull the knife through and didnt get very good results certainly nowhere near what the companies that make them claim. so my father gave me a very fine sharpening stone (looking at it it almost has the look of a block of metal but its not just very fine now i have heard some stones are ment to be used dry just as they are and others made to be used with water on them and even others made to be used with oil on them as lubrication. now my question is how do i tell what kind of stone it is i dont want to mess anything up using it the wrong way is there any way to tell if they are ment for oil water or dry? please any help would be much appreciated

also any general tips about sharpening techniques and or products that work world also be appreciated THANKS EVERY ONE!
-dave EMAIL- DBREEZE225@YAHOO.COM
 
You need to post up a pic of the stone, we could probably ID it on sight and point you in the right direction.
 
I would also second post a pic. Considering you're saying its "fine" it's probably not coarse enough to do any real sharpening or apexing. Grab a norton combo crystolon stone and use the coarse side to start it. It's kinda a skill to learn to keep the correct angle. Grab a knife that isn't your best to start. When the angle is correct, the edge will smoothly glide across the stone, not stick or scrape. Keep sharpening on the coarse side until you raise a burr. Same number of strokes per side. Color the edge bevel with a permanent marker to ensure you're hitting the right angle, it should evenly scrape off. Once you've raised a burr, continue on the fine side of the stone until the entire scratch pattern is replaced, the move to a fine finishing stone like an Arkansas(hard), fine diamond, or fine ceramic/waterstone.

I find dish soap and water works much better then oil on "oil stones".
 
Sounds like you need to go through the sharpening process from course or medium to fine. The course and medium stones do a lot of the heavy lifting for shaping profiling your edge and getting it sharp. The fine stones refine and hone your edge.

Most times if your hand is steady a course stone will get you to share in sharp.
 
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