Hey guys. I didnt get to reply to you all in the previous thread so here goes:I think 1000 to 6000 is ok bc it just means i will have to spend more time on the 6000 and i will eventually get it polished adequately. But in a perfect world yes i would like to have a #3000 stone to fill the gap. I think its sort of like skipping from 2nd gear to 4th gear in a manual transmission car. It just takes a little longer to get into the power band of 4th gear. In other news, I just got this gold dollar from amazon that was obviously sharpened by a middle man and resold with a nice leather strop for 24$. I have bought a few gold dollar razors before but none of them came with such a perfect edge like this one so i think the middle man sharpened this one himself and then resold it. I have a dovo solingen razor and this gold dollar is pretty much at the same level which for 24$ is kind of insane. Heres a link if any of you lot are interested. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CJC35V8Z?ref_=ppx_hzod_title_mob_b_fed_asin_title_0_0
>>65161518why do so many of these sharpening generals getting posted now?i did recently get a ken onion worx sharpener and i really like it.
>>65161569Nice. Sharpening is cool imo. Its kind of an ancient tradition in certain countries like japan where for thousands of yrs samurai warriors coveted these special whetstones that were able to sharpen the shit out of their swords.
>>65161569This faggots got a pocketjanny who lets him spam this shit
>https://www.homedepot.com/p/POWERTEC-Sharpening-Stone-Dual-Sided-1000-6000-Grit-Whetstone-Knife-Sharpening-Stone-with-Non-Slip-Rubber-Base-71916N/332760505#see-more-detailsworks fine. my strop is some leather glued and nailed to a board with green goo. i had the worksharp portable one for ages but it was too small for kitchen knives and the plates were pretty cheap and wore out after a while. re razors: if you use a safety razor, the blades, even the cheapest amazon chinesium, you can strop the factory edges and get a way better edge. and when they dull they can take another stropping or two back to sharp. gets you a couple extra days form every blade. not worth the trouble to truly sharpen but stropping takes 60 seconds.
>>65161649Hi faggot,Ive only posted a few sharpening threads on /k so if you are seeing tons of sharpening threads they arent just from me. But knives are weapons you autistic homosexual so i dont really know how fucking stupid you are to complain about knife threads being posted on a weapons forum but i think you need to go masturbate and take a chill pill. The mods on /k are pretty reasonable in my experience. Idk why you would think i have some sort of in with the mods here bc ive gotten warnings and 3-days for posting off-topic threads in /k before. But sharpening threads in a weapons forum is NOT off-topic. Just go masturbate and then have a snack buddy. Youll feel better.
also if you have a work bench, get a cheap end vice. tighten it on the stones so it sits proud, enjoy the easiest sharpening sesh of your life. its useful for all sorts of other shit and for most guys a cheap amazon or harbor freight one is good enough. maybe $30?
>>65161652Nice. I asked chatgpt if 1k~>6k~>10k was a reasonable stone progression and he said it was fine and although a 3000 stone would be a nice step to add in between the 1k and 6k it wasnt necessary and i would eventually get to a nice polished edge on the 6k and it would just take a little bit longer.
>>65161661A few my ass youve put this shit out daily and they die cause nobody gives a shit about you and your grinding wheel. Every faggot spammers used the justification oh its slightly /k/ related its better than the endless ukraine slops. Its not and its obvious to everyone. You have nothing to say and nobody cares that you supposedly bought a new piece of shit to sharpen a knife. Even though all youve posted is stock photos.
>>65161665id say go off of your usecase and figure out grits from there. ive yet to fuck up an edge so bad i need coarser than 1000 and i dont give a fuck enough to do a 3k step in between.the nice things about knives is you dont have to over think them. cavemen were doing this to pieces of obsidian in with lava rocks. outlaws were doing this to cheap steel in the desert. guys have honed on car window glass in a pinch. its mans first and simplest tool.
Stone grits are fairly arbitrary and don't mean anything except as a point of comparison within the same manufacturer's stones. A 1000 from one manufacturer may get you the same results as a 5000 from another. I only use two stones. Shapton ceramics; their blue-black coarse (K0709; #320 on their scale) and then straight to their green medium (K0703; #2000 on their scale). After that it's all strop work.
>>65161518>first shilling a grinding wheel, now shilling chinesium trash razorsBuy an ad, but do so with the understanding that the sort of autist that's interested in straight razors will probably do their homework. That's the kind of autist that understands the value in buying a quality razor to start with, and not fucking it up by taking it to a grinding wheel.
I got a sharpmaker first. Then I got the cheapest worksharp precision adjust. All my knives are very sharp. KA-BARs are supposedly 20 degrees per side but when I put mine on the precision adjust (very dangerous business with that edge facing me, considering how sharp it already was and if it tipped over or I accidentally waved my hand over it, it could be a big time ER trip,) the straight portion was 20 degrees but the whole inches long tip edge was at 23 degrees. So I sharpened the straight part at 20 degrees and then the whole thing at 23 degrees. It whittles hair along the entire edge at 23 degrees. It's interesting that not much sharpening would've happened on the tip for a long time had I just used the 40 degree setting on the Sharpmaker. I have a little Gerber knife I profiled to 40 degrees total on the Sharpmaker and it has a "smile" on the tip from the consistent angle.
I tried sharpening a Spyderco FFG on the worksharp precision adjust just to get a little chip out, and the angle seemed to change or the clamp didn't hold it right and it didn't go so well. (I wanted to keep the 17 degree factory edge.) But it didn't work so well with the distal taper. There's probably a way to tape the blade up to make it work. I just used the Sharpmaker on that and got it hair whittling at 20 dps. The worksharp works well with small pocket knife size knives where the spine is the same thickness on both sides of where the clip clips. Will not work on smaller swiss army type knives. And you can't be trying to re-clamp it for larger blades. The clamp has to stay in one place for the entire sharpening. It's more precise in some ways and the ceramic gives an even closer to mirror polish than the standard sharpmaker fine white stones, but it's not compatible with every knife.
>>65161645Samurai did not sharpen their own swords, nor seek special stones. Nihonto exist in different states of “polish”. Some of the best polishers outside of Japan today reside in Hawaii. These are not sword makers either.
