Resharpening BK-11 (Becker Necker) Knife Tip?

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youstfu

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Hello, I bought a BK-11 many months ago and I've been sharpening it with a Spyderco Sharpmaker. What I didn't notice over the course of time was that I was slowly rounding off the tip of the knife because of my inexperience with sharpening and hard use. However, I realize my errors and have become better at sharpening and I'm much more careful with my knives.

I've tried googling around but searching for the words "tip" and "point" but google only brings up "knife sharpening tips" and "good points on sharpening a knife." Searching on the forums didn't bring up a good solution either. The tip isn't sharp at all anymore but still retains its shape somewhat, but how do I resharpen the knife tip?

Much help is appreciated, thanks in advance!
 
I'm guessing you've learned the basics of sharpening by using the Sharpmaker, so I would suggest learning to freehand on stones and sandpaper.

I've used alot of sharpening mediums and I've narrowed my favorites down to folding double sided DMT stones, and sandpaper/strop.

Here are a few pics of my BK-11 that I convexed with sandpaper/strop on leather backing...

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...my camera has trouble focusing on tips, but I can tell you that the tips of all my knives turn out very well with this technique. :)

By the way you can find plenty of how-to's on youtube, as well as on the maintenance sub-forum right here on BF.:thumbup:
 
That looks very nice! I want to try it, but I don't know if my hands are steady enough to keep a consistent angle to do freehand. I may try it one day as a last resort though.
 
youstfu said:
That looks very nice! I want to try it, but I don't know if my hands are steady enough to keep a consistent angle to do freehand. I may try it one day as a last resort though.
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As far as freehand sharpening goes, I've found the sandpaper+mousepad technique to be really forgiving compared to sharpening on benchstones. You could always give it a try on a cheap knife if you're worried about messing up your good knife. :thumbup:
 
now that your tip is rounded my advice is to make it crisp again by removing metal from the spine. it's easier than sharpening the edge untill you get a crisp tip especialy since you are not so confident on the stones. sharpmaker is too slow and you'll probably mess it again.

the drawback is that you'll remove the clading on a good portion of the spine, no big deal if the knife is a user, the farther you go on the spine the more you'll stick to the original profile.
 
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