Thread: Honing other things

Originally Posted by JetHed

For kicks, I tried to sharpen one of my kitchen knives (a JA Heckles Pairing Knife) on my Nortons and didn't get results that I expected.

Anyone hone kitchen knives or others on their Nortons? How do you get the bevel angle consistent without a spine like on Straights?

I was thinking of slicing a groove down the length of a plastic tube and inserting knife into it to make a spine to set the bevel.

Anyone do this with success?

Henkles don't do so well at 4k/8k ranges the steel is just to soft to suport the fine teeth from higher grit stones.

If you go to harder steel knives that the polished edge works. As mentioned above, depending on your use range sharpening can be a very wide range of edges.

As for a guide, aim for 20 deg on the Henkels, how do you find 20deg? With the edge srtaight down to the stone = 90deg, half of that = 45deg, half that again and your pretty close. If you have harder steel you can even halve that again and farther to get a wicked thing edge.

It takes practice holding that angle but once you get it your on your way to consistant edges

There is a product called an Edge Pro, while I hate them, they do give the ability to hold the knife and sharpen with an exact degree for the bevel. I don't like them as it is a DE-skilling device...