Thread: More questions

This set will do everything you could ever want to do.... From razors to knives if you wanted to.... Now if you get crazy into it (like Ron, Jimmy, and I) then you can add more stones down the road


Amazon.com: Norton Waterstone Starter Kit: 220/1000 grit stone, 4000/8000 grit stone, SiC flattening stone: Home Improvement

I know aobut the stones what I want to know is if I have the stone already what is the process that I use to hone a kitchen knife?

KITCHEN KNIFE? ARE YOU KIDDING?
THIS IS straight razor place not knife place? Come on

it was just a joke
use 1k and 4k.
should do it. you dont have to go 8k if you want you can go 8 k too but edge will be too fine for your kitchen knife.
lastly unlike razors which lays flat on the hone to sharpen knife you will need to keep blade above the stone approximately 15 degree constantly.
hope this help.
gl

just be sure to take care when sharpening kitchen knives on water stones, I took a decent slice out of my king 1k with one of my utility folders in a moment of inattention. I find that for most kitchen stuff, a courser stone will "feel" sharper to a certain extent, and unless you are making very delicate cuts, 1k is very adequate.

Ah, so the method for sharpening a kitchen knife is smilar to that of a striaght razor. I keep telling my mrs that every home should have a sharpening stone to at least sharpen the kitchen knives and do double duty with the straight razor.

Did my second straight shave last night. Started off by honing it a bit, when I recieved it from the honemister it was so dull that its no wonder that I couldn't use it. Seem to have the honing method pretty good by now as its starting to be quite a bit sharper than it was when the hone mister sent it to me. I am still steaming aobut that one. Picked up a new sample of Shave Den jasmine shave cream, lathered it and went to town. Got a somewhat deecent shave with it, nothing near what one would call adequate but still good enough. I think that I am getting towards where I need to be in terms of shaving with the straight razor but I think that it will be a while before I can truely say that I do this adequately and can upgrade from a double edge.

Originally Posted by jbcohen

Started off by honing it a bit, when I recieved it from the honemister it was so dull that its no wonder that I couldn't use it.

That shouldn't be so.

Originally Posted by jbcohen

Ah, so the method for sharpening a kitchen knife is smilar to that of a striaght razor. I keep telling my mrs that every home should have a sharpening stone to at least sharpen the kitchen knives and do double duty with the straight razor.

Did my second straight shave last night. Started off by honing it a bit, when I recieved it from the honemister it was so dull that its no wonder that I couldn't use it. Seem to have the honing method pretty good by now as its starting to be quite a bit sharper than it was when the hone mister sent it to me. I am still steaming aobut that one. Picked up a new sample of Shave Den jasmine shave cream, lathered it and went to town. Got a somewhat deecent shave with it, nothing near what one would call adequate but still good enough. I think that I am getting towards where I need to be in terms of shaving with the straight razor but I think that it will be a while before I can truely say that I do this adequately and can upgrade from a double edge.

Are you sure it was honed by a honemeister then?

Or maybe you damaged the edge stropping incorrectly?

When I went to my straight razor teacher for the first time he examined the razor and asked if I had honed it, "No" I replied "I was saving that for a later time." He then examined the blade and showed me how dull the blade was by attempting to cut a piece of paper with it and it would not. Again this was before he told me that I ahd to hone it for it to work, I was still thinking that stroping would sharpen it. He proved that the edge had not been stropped properly. Once I got the padle strop he then showed me how to accomplish the task and got me doing it and eventually the two of us got it sharp enough for it to cut some paper. Its now starting to reach a point where it can actually do some good.