Video - How to sharpen knife to "whittling hair" sharp.

Small Regular Sebenza sharpened on Spyderco Sharpmaker white stones 20 strokes per side.;)

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Vassili,
I am very new to using leather. I purchase one along with some powder that you sprinkle onto the leather. It's blue or purple in color. The instructions say to push down hard with the blade dead flat against the leather. This causes the blade edge to sink into the leather and in my opinion round the edge. Also, I like the look of the steel that is not part of the edge so I increase the angle slightly to not were or polish it off. How do I know if the edge is rolled? I can shave hair off my arm and push cut through newspaper but if I apply only light pressure by holding the end of the knife and drag it across even toilet paper, no cutting gets done. I use a mechanical device to hold the angle prior to using the leather, down to 2000.
Thanks,
Mark
 
Mark1967 said:
Vassili,
I am very new to using leather. I purchase one along with some powder that you sprinkle onto the leather. It's blue or purple in color. The instructions say to push down hard with the blade dead flat against the leather. This causes the blade edge to sink into the leather and in my opinion round the edge. Also, I like the look of the steel that is not part of the edge so I increase the angle slightly to not were or polish it off. How do I know if the edge is rolled? I can shave hair off my arm and push cut through newspaper but if I apply only light pressure by holding the end of the knife and drag it across even toilet paper, no cutting gets done. I use a mechanical device to hold the angle prior to using the leather, down to 2000.
Thanks,
Mark
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If it think into leather it most likely get rounded. This is why I use relatively thin leather with a lot of pores and did not glue it but stretch over flat wood block. A also apply thick layer of green rouge (wax based about $7 brick in WoodCraft) and warms it with powerful lamp (120W) so it is soft. This I am doing to preven edge to sink into leather. I also lower the angle a bit so very edge touch surface very slightly.

Rounded edge able to shave and cut paper but not able to whittle hair. Whittling hair is what I use to test final sharpness. Cutting toilet paper is tricky and require some training. I did not see anyone doing what you described. I try myself but I think it may be more random then whittling hair.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3B2fqdVS8J8

But may be knife is not sharp enough. Who knows, so far nobody show another toilet paper cutting.

Thanks, Vassili.
 
Vassilli, Many thanks for the videos. They make a difficult task look easy (I know its not, it just looks like it.) Gives us all something to shoot for. Wow, I am impressed. Thanks again!
 
Thank you Vassilli, I really enjoyed the videos and am going to also use the slanted base idea and see how it goes.
 
Had some fun today with Yuna Mini Hard 2 (friend helped to take some pictures).

Curly next to the logo
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Curly next to 550 paracord
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For those who able to whittle hair I draw some emblem - anyone whittling hair can use it:

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Thanks, Vassili.
 
christopher said:
Vassilli, Many thanks for the videos. They make a difficult task look easy (I know its not, it just looks like it.) Gives us all something to shoot for. Wow, I am impressed. Thanks again!
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Honestly - it is not difficult. It is as it is on video, I am doing this for several years now. It is matter of good light comfortable position. You should be able to observe what you are doing with edge and then it is matter of one day learning. Of course you need to have proper tools - for example it will be painful to take out screw without screwdriver and require big effort and good skill, but with screw driver - anybody can do. So in case of sharpening - most do not have screwdriver...

Thanks, Vassili.
 
What technique would that be?

Dog of War said:
Nice work, Vassili. Particularly with the stropping, I think many will find your videos useful, studying both the angle and pressure being used ... IMO much, much better than the technique HandAmerican (for example) recommends, which stands a very good chance of actually dulling the edge.
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Thanks Rob - didn't catch that. The only technique I've ever recommended was the one developed by Cape Forge and couldn't figure how it would dull a knife.
Keith
 
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