sharpening a folding sog vulcan

[Dan3shot]

hey guys, new to this forum and fairly new knife owner. My sog vulcan will be requireing some sharpening soon and im lookin for a sharpener that's easy to use and effective. The blade itself, a vg-10 san mai is a tanto tip and has a "S" curve in the body of the blade. Just wondering what you guys might recommend using, if its an automatic or free hand using stones. Thanks alot.

 

[richard j]

to do recurves by hand you can use a pringles can. here is how to do it. take a pringles can with the bottom cut out and attach some abrasive paper to it. crimp down one side so you have somewhat of a square corner so you can sharpen the plunge line area of the blade. you put your arm through the can with the flat facing the knife for each side. match up the angle by tilting the blade and slowly push the blade away from you while working your way to the tip where you will stop. dont let the tip slide off or you'll round off the tip. switch the can to your other arm and repeat. once you have a burr worked up, go to a strop or ceramic stick to remove the burr.

for some recurves i use my belt sander or my paper wheels. i always finish off any edge with the slotted paper buffing wheel which gives me a razor edge.

 

[Dan3shot]

sounds like a cool trick with the pringles can. might just be somethin i might wanna try out. Just wonderin, is there actually any store bought sharpeners that might work with it?. i heard spyderco makes a pretty good one. but thanks for the advice. Thanks VG another thing i might wanna think of is just gettin someone to do it for me that would actually know what the hell their doin...thanks for the replies guys!:thumbup:

 

[Misanthropia]

I have the same knife (in mini form) and the edge of the Sharpmaker stones works perfectly on it. Sharpening recurves is one of the system's strengths, among many others. I highly recommend it if your knives don't see sustained heavy use.

 

[richard j]

i can sharpen it for you. here are some links to check out http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=585019
http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=651061 http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/s...an-Dua-folder!!!!-Wow?p=10106418#post10106418

in this post there is a zt which is a recurve i sharpened.
http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php/757639-knife-sharpening?p=8430472#post8430472

if you dull your knife often you might want to check into the paper wheels. you can sharpen just about any knife out there with a set, even recurves and do it in about a minute or so. here is a thread i started on them. http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=578787

 

[9blades]

Thanks Richard but I must say iv been Putting it off for a long time I'm just gonna get a sharpmaker......
Thanks for the info though.

 

[CorWillHope]

to do recurves by hand you can use a pringles can. here is how to do it. take a pringles can with the bottom cut out and attach some abrasive paper to it. crimp down one side so you have somewhat of a square corner so you can sharpen the plunge line area of the blade. you put your arm through the can with the flat facing the knife for each side. match up the angle by tilting the blade and slowly push the blade away from you while working your way to the tip where you will stop. dont let the tip slide off or you'll round off the tip. switch the can to your other arm and repeat. once you have a burr worked up, go to a strop or ceramic stick to remove the burr.

for some recurves i use my belt sander or my paper wheels. i always finish off any edge with the slotted paper buffing wheel which gives me a razor edge.

Do you have a video or pictures of you sharpening using this technique. I've always tried using a pipe and some sand paper and I either end up slicing/shredding up the paper or I get mixed results.

 

[Lapedog]

Buy a sharpmaker or atleast the stones. Lay the recurve section of the blade against the flat side of the triangle stone. The two corners of the stone will hit two points along the recurve of the blade. Make sure the angle is properly set to match the angle of the edge bevel, this takes practice. Now when you drag the edge like you are trying to shave off a piece of the stone the two corners will sweep along the inside of the recurve. I find this much easier than using one corner of the sharpmaker triangle rod at a time.