Sharpening stones suggestions

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aarolar

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I am wanting to buy my first set of good shapening stones and need some guidence. This far I have had a lanksy and have been using the stones freehand to sharpen my knives. I have been getting good results but I am ready to move up. I am thinking I want a set of DMT's but have an issue. My EDC is a recurve and i won't be able to sharpen it with the wide stones, what are my options? I am considering buying the 8x3's and using the water jet table at work to cut a 1/2 inch section off the edge giving me a 8x.5 to sharpen my recurves and a 8x2.5 for everything else. Does anyone think this would damage the stones? Thanks for any advice, Aaron
 
I like the idea. If I had to do the same thing, that is how I would approach it. Not that that means anything. :D
 
It would depend on the type of stone I would say. I sanded the edge of most of my stones to a smooth curves (the ceramic is a pain in the ass). It made it pretty easy to sharpen my recurve blade on it (BM710 D2).
 
It might work and it might damage the stone, not a risk I would be willing to take with a 400 dollar set of diamond plates.

Sandpaper on a strop works great for recurves.
 
I've had a lot of different stones (water stones, Arkansas stones, and diamond stones) cut to size for me by ordinary lapidary shops. Very inexpensive and worked very well for me. Of course they were using diamond 'slabbing wheels' to do the cutting. Very precise and clean. I don't know how stones would respond to water jet cutting.


Stitchawl
 
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