So, I’ve got a few knives. I don’t have a collection, or anything really that lethal or scary, just knives I use to cut things. Like boxes, packaging, tape, and flesh. A roommate I had used to shave with a knife sometimes. I asked how he got it that sharp, and he said he had some special thing at home in Blacksburg, VA. I was in the boy scouts, but they never taught us to sharpen our knives because they were afraid we’d cut ourselves.
The things I’ve tried work, but only to a point. I have a little sharpening stone and a little yellow sharpener from Wal-Mart that has carbide and ceramic sharpening wedge things.
I’d like my knives to be much sharper,so I was wondering, what kinds of tools/techniques do you guys use to get your knives really sharp?
Seems weird to have so much to go through to learn how to sharpen a knife, but I learned and can sharpend a knife a lot better than what they showed me in boy scouts.
They come in different grits. It’s a little pricey but it works really well. You should have someone show you the technique (a local knife shop?) because it’s weird at first.
i use oilstones of progressively finer grits (the last one looks like a block of yellow ivory) with bucks honing oil(my preferred choice, any honing oil works)
each stone gets all the funny nicks and stuff caused by the previous stone out–i only really have a progression of 3 stones that i actually use-the last one was my great granddads…
to get it really sharp you have to keep the knife at the same(low) angle on every stroke
yes, i do whittle, so i need a razor sharp knife at all times
get a lansky sharpening kit. the things you have mentioned suck. the lansky has a knife clamp of sorts that you stick your knife in to sharpen it, and a way to keep the angle consistent the whole time you are sharpening your knife.
My grandfather (who incidentally had the same name as me), sharpened his razor knife every day by a special sliding technique using a taut leather strap. My father told me (several times) that it was so sharp, that by way of demonstration my granddad would drop a bird’s feather on the sharp edge which would then be cut in two parts just under its own weight.
