Poll: How do you sharpen your knives?

I have a Lansky that's probably 15 years old- I use that & my Sharpmaker. I pretty much suck at freehand sharpening. I can get a "good" edge- quite adequate for most things & most people wouldn't complain, but I can't get that final "wow" edge. I wind up destroying the adequate edge & have to start over.
(that's what I get for not learning properly)

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"Never give a sword to a man who can't dance" (Celtic Proverb)
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Free hand on diamond, ceramic, or Arkansas, depending on blade steel. Strop on leather belt (not always).

Paul
 
Hmmm. Learned by freehand with arkansas stones, then went to a lansky for a while, then back to free hand with stones. Now I use a belt sander 120 grit to set bevel, 600 grit to polish, then strop using rouge and old belt. Sometimes, I use a ceramic stick to touch up an edge.

Javahead, how is the O-1 going??
 
Lansky (diamond) for serious honing, hard Arkansas and ceramic stick for touch-ups and for achieving the final hair-popping edge.

JK
 
I have always used Arkansas stones, but lately I have also been using ceramic rods and Spyderco's ceramics, too. Just got a diamond stone to make it easier to deal with my BG-42. On my carbon steel blades I like to do a really light pass with a steel to really bring out the edge instead of stropping.

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Die Entropie der Welt strebt einem Maximum zu - R.J.E. Clausius
 
I use norton crystalon 200-1000 mostly
I also have f-m-c oregon abrasives water stones with a norton 8000 grit water stone for finishing.

for touch ups I use an ultimate edge diamond rod.

I can put a hairpopping edge on all my knives. I have trouble when I hand sharpend someone's knife that they never ever sharpened it over 3 years. that is alot of grinding by hand.

[This message has been edited by chrisaloia (edited 11-08-2000).]
 
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