Sharpening "long" blades

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Please forgive my impatience for doing a thorough search, but I'm curious on tips or preferences for sharpening larger blades. At what point do you give up say the Sharpmaker and move on to other methods? I'm thinking about touching up my Junglas in this case. Just seems a bit long and heavy to run through the rods, not that it wouldn't work.

I assume you should take the stone to the blade vs the blade to the stone...like working an axe edge...or a sword? Same for stropping? I guess I just haven't ventured far enough into larger blades to have given this much thought.
 
Yep, I use a file, then for finishing (if I prefer) hold the stone in hand and use it just like the file.

Find or make a handle for your sharpmaker stones. large file handles might work.
 
To be honest I gave of on the sharpmaker awhile ago in favor of the KME. In this case I'd probably go with the Ken Onion Work Sharp. I only use the KO for the occasional heavy lifting task but for a blade this size I would pull it out.
 
For my large knives, like my 9" Kabar Becker BK9, that my Sharpmaker cannot handle easily, I simply made a large SM-like cross-stick sharpener that uses full-length sandpaper. Works just fine.

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TravisH said:
For my large knives, like my 9" Kabar Becker BK9, that my Sharpmaker cannot handle easily, I simply made a large SM-like cross-stick sharpener that uses full-length sandpaper. Works just fine.

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Nice! I love creative solutions to problems.
 
mb> said:
Please forgive my impatience for doing a thorough search, but I'm curious on tips or preferences for sharpening larger blades. At what point do you give up say the Sharpmaker and move on to other methods? I'm thinking about touching up my Junglas in this case. Just seems a bit long and heavy to run through the rods, not that it wouldn't work.

I assume you should take the stone to the blade vs the blade to the stone...like working an axe edge...or a sword? Same for stropping? I guess I just haven't ventured far enough into larger blades to have given this much thought.
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Why you do not make it ? You need only one uniball joint , one long steel bar of appropriate diameter to fit in hole of uniball joint . Rest is easy ...do not need a holder for stones it s easy to hold with hand on steel bar . Depends on how long you make the stand you can sharpen from sword to pocket knive .Under whatever angle you want ............ Trust me this is better, faster , more precise .... than all sharpening tool on the market like Lansky , Edge pro .... they are a toy for kids !

PS . On this I can sharpen more then 30 centimeters blade .................

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I occasionally touch up my 9" and 9.5" kitchen blades on the SharpMaker. That seems to be about the limit for me with the SM, as even at 9", it gets slightly awkward to sharpen.

Both blades are rather easy to sharpen on an 8x3" bench stone though. I'd imagine the Junglas wouldn't be too hard on 8" bench stones as it's only about 1" longer than the blades I'm talking about.

Brian.
 
mb> said:
Please forgive my impatience for doing a thorough search, but I'm curious on tips or preferences for sharpening larger blades. At what point do you give up say the Sharpmaker and move on to other methods? I'm thinking about touching up my Junglas in this case. Just seems a bit long and heavy to run through the rods, not that it wouldn't work.

I assume you should take the stone to the blade vs the blade to the stone...like working an axe edge...or a sword? Same for stropping? I guess I just haven't ventured far enough into larger blades to have given this much thought.
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I use benchstones etc on larger tools. Here's a larger blade on a WB block - 11".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ux-wH1i_2FQ

and a hatchet from file work to finish.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzbeeHnFPEs

Freehand is the way to go for larger tools, you could do very large tools on an even smaller stone, 4-6" but helps to have more real estate.
 
If you want to spend some money and have something really versatile I would recommend the ko with bga. You can do longer blades just fine and makes reprofiling a breeze. You can also use your sharpmaker for follow ups if you want
 
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