what is your fastest and/or coarsest sharpening tool

hardheart

hardheart

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I had a 60 grit 1x1x6 aluminum oxide stone, but lost it. I still have my DMT D8XX, coarse crystolon, and have a 220 grit Norton waterstone on the way for cleaning up after those.
 
A bench grinder, not sure on grit, I only use it to reprofile shit ass knives because I sometimes stuff up a lil lol.
 
The coarsest sharpening hone that I have is the extra coarse Gatco sharpening system which is 80 grit.They say its for damaged and extremely dull edges.Everytime I use it bits go flying everywhere.
 
I've got a belt sander, but my coarsest bench hones are: a DMT coarse 8" diamond hone and a 120 grit Shapton Pro 8" waterstone.
 
1x30 sander with a fresh 40 grit klingspor blue zirconia grinding belt. that chews knives down like no tomorrow...and puts fresh grinds on all manner of bar stock.

normally i start off with an 80 grit if a knife is really bad-chips, badly aligned edge, etc.

if the edge isn't too bad but needs lining up and evening out i will start with a 120 grit belt.

but in terms of stones/hand sharpening-i have some 50 grit sand cloth that would work well for major removal of stock. i also have a basic two sided stone that takes off a fair amount of metal pretty fast.
 
Delta 1x42 belt sander with a 80x belt will clean up anything RIGHT NOW. I got a cold chisel to shave.

After that, it's an old Craftsman lawnmower stone. Feels about 50 grit, leaves teeth like a hacksaw.
 
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