using wet dry sand paper as part of my sharpening system

dogwood dan · Aug 29, 2012

I am thinking about using wet dry sand paper backed with glass to sharpen my knives. It is a system I used to lap my plane iron in my wood working days. Has any body used this system and how did ti work out for them?

Thanks for your time

Dan

Bill DeShivs · Aug 29, 2012

It will work great, as long as you know what you're doing.

quint · Aug 30, 2012

I use it backed with leather, take it to that first then the leather strop portion, do this with my leather cutting tools that have a true convex edge.

Nonprophet · Aug 30, 2012

I watched one of the Busse's actually do a demonstration on using sandpaper to sharpen knives at the last Blade show. They were using sandpaper laid over a mousepad to do a convex edge but from what I've seen as long as the paper stays flat and you don't scratch the blade it works exactly like using stones.

Morkte · Aug 30, 2012

As long as you can free hand sharpen it will work great. I have used it alot. If your looking for a V edge back with glass or other smooth/hard surface. If you want a convex edge then back with a smooth/soft surface (leather, mousepad)

Hengelo_77 · Aug 30, 2012

there is this thing on the net called scary sharp tm
Basicaly they sharpen chisels with sandpaper.
I’ve sharpened a chisel ground knife like that once and indeed got it very sharp.
I haven’t done a recurve blade but if I would, I’d sharpen it like that with the paper wrapped around a glass or piece of tubing.

dogwood dan · Aug 30, 2012

Hengelo_77 said:
there is this thing on the net called scary sharp tm
Basicaly they sharpen chisels with sandpaper.
I’ve sharpened a chisel ground knife like that once and indeed got it very sharp.
I haven’t done a recurve blade but if I would, I’d sharpen it like that with the paper wrapped around a glass or piece of tubing.

I will look for the scary sharp TM
what gave me the idea is use to do a lot of wood working and would take my paring chisels and pane irons up to about 2000 grit wet dry be for i stropped them. I am going to try using spray adhesive to put wet dry paper on glass lapping plates then use them like bench stones.
I thought I would use leather with a wood backing to back the sand paper for my convex grinds then again use it like a bench stone

DCL Knives · Aug 30, 2012

You could try a regular glue stick to stick it to the glass, I use metal backing but glue stick defiantly had enough stick to keep it on, while still being very easy to remove