What kinda angles do you sharpen your Beckers to and what sharpening tool do you use?

Mathias888

Mathias888

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For cutting and slicing knifes, i would prefer a 15 deg while chopping i chose 20 deg per side. This is also partly due to the sharpening tool i used.

I used the spyderco sharpmaker for most of my knives.

I'm thinking of experimenting with other equipment such as lansky and warthog vsharp
 
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I fixeded it.

17-20°. KME and a strop.
 
Double tap. Damn you vBulletin.
 
I have no idea what my edge angles are. I sharpen freehand on a few small diamond "stones", and wet dry sandpaper ranging from 220-2000 grit.
 
Currently, I use sandpaper ranging from 220-1500 grit on a mouse pad then move to leather with stropping compounds. I convex my edges.
 
if you convex it, there are no fixed angle but definitely can take more beating compared to other angle.
 
Depends on the knife and the tasks I use it for. My slicers are 14-17, majority of the rest are 18-20

For the job I use a home-made set of strop crox sticks and different grits of sand paper. If the edge if really bad I use my bench stone.
 
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I just make sure both sides meet at a point so it can cut with reasonable pressure.
 
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I have a new work sharp ken onion edition and sharpen my smaller blades to 30 deg total and 40 for the larger blades that may chop or baton. My bk16 and 15 are scary at 30 degrees.. Like super ticked off evil mother in law scary
 
I just freehand sharpen them with sandpaper and water starting at 220 and going to 1500.
 
Convex, an old Buck Arkansas stone, and a hard Arkansas stone. When the edge is sharp, I strop, green then white compound.
 
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gonna try using sand paper and stuffs to achieve a convex grind on some of my testing blade before moving onto the fixed i have.

anything that perhaps i should take note of?
 
Just make sure you lay your edge on the sandpaper and pull away from the edge (rather than try to cut into it like you do with a stone). Other than that, its pretty much just business as usual for freehand sharpening (just keep your edge angles consistent and everything will turn out ok in the end :)).

Good luck :).
 
I use a worksharp field sharpener. 20 degrees each side. I'm not sure about the neckers, but the Kabar website lists all other Beckers at 20 degrees per side.
 
Diamond grit or arkanasas stone. Bk11 the 11 so toothy it goes through sweat pants with no pressure...got distracted and it bit me..
 
For slicers/cutters I've gone as low as 7 degrees per side. For choppers, 12 to 17. Bench stones and Sharpmaker.
 
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