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Hello hello!
I've been doing a lot of reading of old threads lately but I couldn't quite find the info that I'm looking for. So here's my issue:
I have a sharpmaker but I'm not particularly fond of it. I've been researching different sharpening systems and even just stones for free-handing, but I'm feeling very overwhelmed and torn and I'm kind of going crazy trying to make up my mind.
For the past few years my main sharpening method has been a KSF strop (the little ones in the otterbox). With this system I can place whatever grit of wet/dry sandpaper over the little piece of leather, smooth it out, and sharpen all my knives decently well using strokes that go away from the edge (pulling rather than pushing).
This, however, has started to convex pretty much all of my knives.
Is this a problem? For any reason? I'm contemplating just buying a larger strop set up to continue using this sandpaper method as I find it intuitive and forgiving in terms of getting an exact.
For example, though, I worked on my Spyderco Temperance 2 last night. I got it sharp enough that it slices tomato skin without any pressure (just pulling it across) and yet I was having trouble getting clean cuts on printer paper. My theory is that the convex edge is very sharp but maybe requires a more precise cut when trying to slice paper. Does that make sense to anyone?
As long as there are no disadvantages to gradually convexing all of my knives I'm perfectly happy staying the course. I just want to be able to sharpen my knives well and maintain them, and if the best way for me to do that is to end up with a bunch of convexed edges, that fine by me, provided that there's no reason not to do this.
Yikes. Long, slightly venting post. Apologies. Anyway, I'd really appreciate anyone's opinion or thoughts on the matter.
Thank you!
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I've been doing a lot of reading of old threads lately but I couldn't quite find the info that I'm looking for. So here's my issue:
I have a sharpmaker but I'm not particularly fond of it. I've been researching different sharpening systems and even just stones for free-handing, but I'm feeling very overwhelmed and torn and I'm kind of going crazy trying to make up my mind.
For the past few years my main sharpening method has been a KSF strop (the little ones in the otterbox). With this system I can place whatever grit of wet/dry sandpaper over the little piece of leather, smooth it out, and sharpen all my knives decently well using strokes that go away from the edge (pulling rather than pushing).
This, however, has started to convex pretty much all of my knives.
Is this a problem? For any reason? I'm contemplating just buying a larger strop set up to continue using this sandpaper method as I find it intuitive and forgiving in terms of getting an exact.
For example, though, I worked on my Spyderco Temperance 2 last night. I got it sharp enough that it slices tomato skin without any pressure (just pulling it across) and yet I was having trouble getting clean cuts on printer paper. My theory is that the convex edge is very sharp but maybe requires a more precise cut when trying to slice paper. Does that make sense to anyone?
As long as there are no disadvantages to gradually convexing all of my knives I'm perfectly happy staying the course. I just want to be able to sharpen my knives well and maintain them, and if the best way for me to do that is to end up with a bunch of convexed edges, that fine by me, provided that there's no reason not to do this.
Yikes. Long, slightly venting post. Apologies. Anyway, I'd really appreciate anyone's opinion or thoughts on the matter.
Thank you!
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