Show Your Best Becker Edge - Win a BK-2 Campanion

[Guyon]

This week I really got to know my KME Sharpening system and was most impressed not only with what it can do, but also how it does it.

My sharpening session gave me an idea for this contest, which will award a BK-2 to one hair-splitting Becker owner.

The idea is to show off your best Becker Edge and what it can do.

Some ground rules:

• The knife you sharpen must be a Becker knife, whether it's Cincinnati, Blackjack, Camillus, or Ka-Bar.
• You must do the sharpening yourself and not outsource it.
• Three pictures are required.

1. Picture of how you sharpened the knife. Stones, systems, strops, mechanical devices, whatever.
2. Picture of the edge, hopefully better than mine above. My cell phone kept focusing on the blade and not the edge.
3. Picture of what it will do. Shave arm hair, shave your face, shave GUNYON into your chest, split a hair, slice paper, make a featherstick, split an atom, shave Ethan's face onto the side of llama, whatever.

That's it. One entry per person. Please keep chatting to a minimum. We'll run this one till July 4 (two weeks). Have at it.


ETA:

I ran a random number generator for eligible entry post numbers.
Boom. There's your winner. Post #19. Congratulations, Jonny1280.

Fisked my BK5 on my HF 1x30 belt sander with 120 grit.
Mouse pad and sandpaper. 320, 400, 600. (Because that's what I had).
Brought to a mirror polish on a strop loaded with Mother's Mag Polish.
Those branches are English Walnut. The Magnum Camp slices through some thick stuff like butter!
Thanks for the cool contest Gunyon. :thumbup:

 

[mountainmist]

I'm in!!!! Thanks soooo Much!!!


The edge doesn't look like much, but it is very sharp. Pointy did sharpen this at the Gathering, but since then I've re-profiled it, this is entirely my edge.

The edge was put on this BK16 with some 600 grit sandpaper, and I leather strop with two different compounds.

Easily feathers Receipt paper:

Top left-hand corner:

Another one:

And it easily shaves arm hair:

Thanks so much!

 

[Guyon]

How does this work? Extra points for how dull to begin with? Extra points for using stones? Or is it just the sharpest edge? Thanks!

Everyone will have to send me knives for inspection. I've contracted with a local laboratory to conduct microscopic inspections and CATRA cutting trials.



OR

You could just go by the posted directions and have a chance at a free knife.

 

[crimsonfalcon07]

Whaaaat? Follow directions? You're so demanding, it's not like you're offering a free knife or something! ...Oh wait...

Thanks for the opportunity. I'll see if I can get an edge put on after I get back to my knives on July 1st. That gives me 3 days before the contest ends to do something.

 

[Guyon]

Whaaaat? Follow directions?

I'm just busting the kid's chops for thinking I could actually tell which knife is sharpest from a couple of photos.

 

[LG&M]

I'm just busting the kid's chops for thinking I could actually tell which knife is sharpest from a couple of photos.

If anyone could it would be you , sucking up helps right?

 

[Chameleonbear]

Alright so this is my SHARPEST knife... EVER! It's a Camillus BK-11.

I use this as a slicey cutter which this excels at.

I'm editing my entry to give you what you actually asked for... Sorta... I don't think you actually asked for this but I'm editing it in anyway...
It will single pass shave hairs off my arm

What I did was used my KME and I took it to the lowest setting on it. Which is a 17° per side. It will single pass shave hairs off my arm no problem, it will shave hairs off my face, but the most impressive thing about it's edge to me, was when Ethan borrowed it to cut a burger in half and looked at me afterwards with this look on his face and handed it back and said "You turned that into a goddamn laser!"

That was the highest praise I could ever get on an edge to me.

 

[Darksidedenny]

Alright so this is my SHARPEST knife... EVER! It's a Camillus BK-11.

It isn't that "sexy shiny" edge, I'll fully admit it isn't HOWEVER I use this as a slicey cutter which this excels at.

What I did was used my KME and I took it to the lowest setting on it. Which is a 17° per side. It will single pass shave hairs off my arm no problem, it will shave hairs off my face, but the most impressive thing about it's edge to me, was when Ethan borrowed it to cut a burger in half and looked at me afterwards with this look on his face and handed it back and said "You turned that into a goddamn laser!"

That was the highest praise I could ever get on an edge to me.

Well....here goes the contest...!!!

 

[samclaymore]

1st A wore out smiths duel diamond sharpener 600+ grit. Free hand 'n' all the way.

2nd The best shot I could get of the edge. Note to self get leather to strop.

3rd A solo shaving shot of my natural nearly hairless left leg. hope it turns out well.

 

[keroscene]

Hodgepodge 'o crap I sliced/shaved/cut with my honed edge

The utensils I used to create said edge

And a crappy pic of my edge (I seriously need a real cam)

 

[Charlie_K]

Okay I'm in.

Here's the system/setup I use


Here's a close up of the edge itself


And here's what it'll shave

 

[Psyop]

My BK2 has a convex edge that is stupid sharp for that thick of a knife. When it was new I used sandpaper and a mouse pad to get the convex ever since then its just the Norton fine and strops. It is a laser

 

[Galeocerdoshark]

BK11 needed its first sharpening since I got it. It could cut, I didn't throw it at bricks or something, but the finesse wasn't there anymore...
What I used was my DMT clamp, fine stone, and the fine stone of a Lansky as well as Lansky honing stone. After that: strop with 3 different compounds.


Fuzzy afterwards


Result, no more factory grindmarks. Smooth as butter.

 

[BryanNomad]

My 14.

 

[MOCraig]

I've never had much in the way of sharpening tools. However, for Father's Day, I received a Ken Onion-edition Worksharp. I like it, but also use the fine rods in my Sharpmaker to supplement.

Here is a shot of my BK14, much in need of a sharpening from use. Also, the tools I used on it. Forgive my bench - it's a mess.



Here's the 20-degree finished edge, the best I can show with my phone.







Its nice and will shave very well. I like the edge I'm able to obtain with the WSKO.

 

[TBL]

I'm in! Thanks for the chance!

My home made setup involves dowels drilled into a 2x4 at a 70 degree angles. Measured with an angle finder to set them up and glued them in place (then remeasured to make sure they were perfect).

From the recent stropping thread I got the idea to wrap the dowels in leather in order to help convex the edges while rotating through different grades of sand paper to get a nice edge. I secure the leather / sand paper to the dowel with heavy duty paper clips. It allows me really easy quick change for grits.

My rig with the leather on the dowel (I was in between changing paper)

A really bad cellphone picture of the reflective edge

Fuzzies really thin note pad paper and shaves pretty clean.

Have more pictures in my photobucket if interested.

 

[Darksidedenny]

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Well...i m not trying to make sushi here and my stones are in the jeep in the garage wich is waayyy too far right now.anyhow,bothe these blades came with a factory edge beyond belief.never sharpened the 5 and it cut like you wouldn t believe,the camilius 2, well i put a convex edge on it cause it came with a laser engraving...had to sand it down,i just used a rough stone,the a soft stone the some bitting.i don t think i need a reflecting edge to bit crap up.sorry,i only have 1 pic to show right now but there it is.

 

[tanglediver]

I have a well soaked BK6 that needed a bit of TLC, so I gave it a shot. It is much better now, but as for splitting quarks? Mmm, nope. But it EATS watermelon!

I have been totin' this stone kit since the early eighties or seventies when I weren't but younger. I still ain't much at it, but I still try.

 

[Jonny1280]

Fisked my BK5 on my HF 1x30 belt sander with 120 grit.
Mouse pad and sandpaper. 320, 400, 600. (Because that's what I had).
Brought to a mirror polish on a strop loaded with Mother's Mag Polish.
Those branches are English Walnut. The Magnum Camp slices through some thick stuff like butter!
Thanks for the cool contest Gunyon. :thumbup:

 

[Tdhurl1103]

Ok, this is our (my son helped out a bit) best edge so far. We sharpened and polished the edge with a WSKOE. The 5 is the most used knife in the house so it always as an edge that must me maintained. I am still getting used to the machine. There is no video, only a pile of dead paper to show for our efforts. Actually, we had so much fun slicing paper we over did it a bit, so we had to go back and touch up the edge. One of the things about working with the WSKOE is that its hard for me to tell if my blade is maintaining the correct angle on the belt. About 1 inch below the tip, the belly, is my worst area.

My son decided to help out a bit with motivation, a keen attention and by holding the blade in the pics to get the best angle. He didn't do that bad considering its stifling in the garage, and its partly cloudy, haha, and I suck at sharpening and taking pics.

Anyway, the boy and I had a lot of fun and that was the most important part for me.




This is just a small pile of the paper we killed. LOL