Sharpening tool

[spict]

Despite which "sharpening tool" I use. It's always worse.

 

[Crag the Brewer]

Despite which "sharpening tool" I use. It's always worse.

You're not saying what knives you have?
What steels?
What sharpening tools you tried?
Your background/history?

It's hard to help without more data points.....

Some knives, some steels, some blade geometries are easier than others

 

[spict]

You're not saying what knives you have?
What steels?
What sharpening tools you tried?
Your background/history?

It's hard to help without more data points.....

Some knives, some steels, some blade geometries are easier than others

You can look at my post history. Kinda applies to all of them.

 

[Wowbagger]

From trying to help people here with sharpening lately I am starting to think :
if you weren't born " handy " and " mechanical "

run away !

Pay someone here to do it for you . ( I do not mean me )

 

[spict]

From trying to help people here with sharpening lately I am starting to think :
if you weren't born " handy " and " mechanical "

run away !

Pay someone here to do it for you . ( I do not mean me )

They have grains and all of that. I think I lack the dexterity.

 

[Crag the Brewer]

You can look at my post history. Kinda applies to all of them.

-I'm not going to do that.

 

[FortyTwoBlades]

For those who struggle with more technical instructions, I just tell them to hold the knife by the handle with one hand, the back of the blade on the other, lock their wrists, and work the knife on a stone as if they were trying to take thin slices off it. Do this an equal amount on both sides until the edge no longer reflects light anywhere when looking straight into it under good light, and you can see your scratches reaching the very edge. Probably the simplest you can make it. Just imagining the lowest angle you'd be trying to take a slice off a block of cheese tends to get folks to intuit a "close enough" angle most of the time.

 

[eveled]

If you can slice bark off a stick you can sharpen a knife.