Thread: Knife Sharpening 101 help

Originally Posted by mainaman

what kinds of knives are you sharpening?
Kitchen, hunting?

I want to be able to learn to sharpen All my knives both Kitchen and hunting, but for now I am concentrating on getting my Kershaw Leek( http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...00_i00_details ) with the carbon edge as sharp as it was when I received it in the mail. (It was shaving hair, but now it won't despite my many sharpening sessions)

I also have a CRKT neck knife ( Amazon.com: Columbia River Knife and Tool 2385 Folts Minimalist Razor Edge Knife: Home Improvement ) with me at work today I purchased deliberately because I thought my honing of it would be similar to razors.

so those are the two blades I am focusing on right now. and have my stones with me at work as well

Also, I had thought about the lanskey systems, but I know darn well I can use the hundreds of dollars of hones I already purchased for razor honing and use them. it's the SKILL I am wanting to learn the way my grandpa would have done that I want. not a modern sharpening system. there is no learning in that, and defeats the purpose of why I want to learn to sharpen knives.