Photos Slippies, Stones and Strops!

Eli Chaps said:
And that is all that matters! Thanks for jumping in. :thumbsup:
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Thank you. The ceramic stones a do a good job and last forever, with that said the belt system is REALLY nice! It takes very little time to set up and typicall a couple of passes on each side and I am done except for the stropping.
 
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Until I read it here, I thought I was about the only one that used denim as a stropping media. Can't remember where I first heard about it or started using it, but have done it on cut pieces or on jeans I am wearing. I have an Edge Pro, a Lansky and do some free hand. Recently got a Work Sharp for doing multiple knives efficiently, normally on the kitchen knives.
 
The leather strop (no wood) is about all I use :) with green and white BR compounds.

The soft red leather is for wipe downs and fingerprints.

Every now and then the Edge Pro Apex (but very very seldom :eek:).

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DelOro said:
The leather strop (no wood) is about all I use :) with green and white BR compounds.

The soft red leather is for wipe downs and fingerprints.

Every now and then the Edge Pro Apex (but very very seldom :eek:).

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Maintaining an edge can really cut down on the sharpening.
 
Don't forget your sharpening steels either.

Here's a picture of a Kabar knife being sharpened on a Kabar stone, complete with Kabar instructions, alongside a Kabar field sharpening steel.

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The legendary US-made Schrade Old-Timer Honesteel

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A Remington sharpening steel, that came in a Camillus-made Remington R-4 boxed set.

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I find myself buying almost as much sharpening gear as knives! Here’s a small sampling of some of the portable systems I’ve picked up along the way.

Two of my favorites in this picture are the Baryonyx American Mutt pocket stone and the DMD 400/1000 combo diamond.

The Baryonx is a do-it-all that can tackle almost anything and leave a much smoother finish than a regular coarse stone.

The DMD is insanely cheap compared to most of the other diamon stones. It’s very thin and great for travel. For whatever reason, I seem to have great luck with it and the 1k leaves a nice edge.

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I like experimenting with different stone and strop combos, and resharpen nearly all my knives before I use them.

This is a random assortment:
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From bottom to top: Atoma 140 plate, Venev double sided 400/800 bonded diamond ‘waterstone’, ceramic Shapton 5000, Spyderco Ultrafine ceramic, homemade smoothside leather strop with 0.25 micron CBN spray.

The natural nagura stone is mainly for scrubbing loaded steel off of the Venev stones, which are my current favourites.

The Belomo 10x loupe is solidly built, and also an essential piece of sharpening kit for me.
 
T. Erdelyi said:
One of my prime pieces is this cheap white ceramic hone I bought for $3 at a gun show. It puts a final polished edge on my knives before the strop.

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It looks a lot like the Smith's ceramic hone I've got. It's a great little stone, most of the sharpening I do is done on that stone, followed by as strop. Unfortunate it's gone out of production as far as I know.
 
T. Erdelyi said:
One of my prime pieces is this cheap white ceramic hone I bought for $3 at a gun show. It puts a final polished edge on my knives before the strop.

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zolthar said:
It looks a lot like the Smith's ceramic hone I've got. It's a great little stone, most of the sharpening I do is done on that stone, followed by as strop. Unfortunate it's gone out of production as far as I know.
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I think I have one of those too, received as a freebie with a promo code or such. Mine was not flat when I got it but I flattened it and it works just fine. I haven't used it in a long time.
 
For reprofiling I resort to a Lansky guided system, but otherwise do most of my sharpening on a Smith's ceramic stone and if I need something a little courser I use a simple hardware store stone.

But most of the time I can do with just regular stropping because most of my knives aren't used very hard and rotated regularly.

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Eli Chaps said:
Very nice Jiki Jiki , CasePeanut CasePeanut , and Cambertree Cambertree ! Thanks for joining the thread.
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Thanks! Great thread, I’m enjoying every post. Thanks for starting it, It’s fascinating to see the diverse sharpening gear folks here use.:thumbsup::cool:

Here’s an old pic of some denim wood backed and hanging strops I made, after reading the experiments in the excellent scienceofsharp blog.

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