Sharpening Question

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I know I have tons of them, anyway I sharpened my HH with my sharp maker, it turned out ok, not great....trouble near the tip, not nearly as sharp.....I am curious if there is a device better made for large knives.....I felt like my eyes were bleeding doing it on that little sharpmaker. I am sure there are freehand methods like Skunk has told me about but I don't quite have the skill for that and wouldn't want to FUBAR my blade(s)......Anyhelp appreciated....:o
 
I've beat my HH pretty good. I strop light to heavy(depending on the abuse I just gave the blade) and steel it just a little lighter. Hair poppin' sharp and still choppin' Maple and Pine, knots and all.:thumbup:
 
Damn, I have very little stropping experience....need to learn more about it, does it actually put an edge on, or does it just touch it up
 
Stroppin with leather and compound touches it up, on a mouse pad with wet/dry paper will put an edge. Make sure you go 800 at the lowest though, you don't need to take much off believe me. They sell 800 and 1200 in the automotive dept. of wal-mart.
 
Numanite said:
I am curious if there is a device better made for large knives.
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The sharpmaker, and other such v-rods, works well appling a final micro-bevel, however they they remove metal slowly. You are much better off in general running multi-bevels and using the Sharpmaker to just apply the final micro bevel and doing everything else by hand on benchstones.

Stropping is just using the blade edge trailing and is inherntly no different than sharpening edge-into in regards to general considerations. Trailing sharpening just allows you to use media that would be cut into if you tried to lead with the blade, such as leather with a buffing compound.

-Cliff
 
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