Thread: Knife sharpening

I use the Gatco system which is also a rod guide system. Only because I don't do well when honing by hand. However, now that I have started collecting razor equipment, I may have to try my hand at it again.

Originally Posted by Laurens

There's some nuances in how they do that. My girlfriend works at a cooking school with various skilled chefs and they taught her that technique of making a "crab" with your hands and letting it guide the knife. She showed me how she does that with her nails against the blade without cutting her nails, when I repeat it, the knife grabs my nail.
I suppose if the angle between nail and edge is lower than the honing angle, you're good, but I have not mastered that yet.

If she try that with my single edge knives it won't work and the thing is the "chefs" I were speaking of can't do it with a sharp knife at all.
That speaks a lot about how sharp their knives are, guess that's what happens when you hone your knife skills on a dull knife.

Originally Posted by Lemur

If she try that with my single edge knives it won't work and the thing is the "chefs" I were speaking of can't do it with a sharp knife at all.
That speaks a lot about how sharp their knives are, guess that's what happens when you hone your knife skills on a dull knife.

Ah, yes, the single edge has one angle of 0 degrees on the left if it's a right-handed knife, I see why that won't work. And I know what "chefs" you speak of, the last time I used someone else's knife I had to force my way through a cucumber. Then again, my knives have been sharp for just over a year, when I started out honing them myself

The only knife I'll touch to my razor hones is my pocket knife (boker AK47 or AK74 which ever is bigger of the two)with the aftermarket milling and spring to make it an auto knife. Also I think the particular blade in mine has some "higher carbon" than most of the others because I can barely keep rust spots off of it. Anyway, to stop my knife info rambling, the reason I only sharpen my knife on my razor hones is because they cost soooo much more than the $20 smiths thing that pulls out of it's handle and I hope to hand them and my razors to my son and daughter one day and they can have something to.start with. When I started the straight razor journey I had already waisted better than 100 bucks before I found SRP and I bought everything new( I've never sent 1 razor to b honed I've done it myself). U guys know 500 and more b 4 u really get enough stuff to b able to shave. Anyway (trying to stay on topic) another reason is the majority of population are idiots when it comes to knives. But yeah they don't need anything above a 1k. If u can't get a knife that's gonna b bluntly hitting a counter or cutting board sharp enuff with a 1k you don't need to be around steel. And I found this out with my first pocket knife that I had sharpened on some DMT hones finishing on 1500. when a friend asked for.me to hand him a knife while we was working in the field (he was cutting tangled bailing twine out of the combine) anyway a slight slip and he almost died. He was airlifted to a hospital that is 20 minutes away by car. And got 126 stitches put in by a plastic surgeon. I was 12 and it literally scared me so bad I rubbed the edge of my knife on concrete for a few minutes and then threw it away. Yep screw a hole bunch of actually honing a knife for someone else and that's the last time I handed someone my pocket knife too.

We it the knife that got him in the accident, or was it a fall into the equipment.

I knew a kid that got caught in a running shredder of some sort (lost both arms if I recall correctly).
Farm equipment is dangerous.

Jody

Originally Posted by Swerve

The only knife I'll touch to my razor hones is my pocket knife (boker AK47 or AK74 which ever is bigger of the two)with the aftermarket milling and spring to make it an auto knife. Also I think the particular blade in mine has some "higher carbon" than most of the others because I can barely keep rust spots off of it. Anyway, to stop my knife info rambling, the reason I only sharpen my knife on my razor hones is because they cost soooo much more than the $20 smiths thing that pulls out of it's handle and I hope to hand them and my razors to my son and daughter one day and they can have something to.start with. When I started the straight razor journey I had already waisted better than 100 bucks before I found SRP and I bought everything new( I've never sent 1 razor to b honed I've done it myself). U guys know 500 and more b 4 u really get enough stuff to b able to shave. Anyway (trying to stay on topic) another reason is the majority of population are idiots when it comes to knives. But yeah they don't need anything above a 1k. If u can't get a knife that's gonna b bluntly hitting a counter or cutting board sharp enuff with a 1k you don't need to be around steel. And I found this out with my first pocket knife that I had sharpened on some DMT hones finishing on 1500. when a friend asked for.me to hand him a knife while we was working in the field (he was cutting tangled bailing twine out of the combine) anyway a slight slip and he almost died. He was airlifted to a hospital that is 20 minutes away by car. And got 126 stitches put in by a plastic surgeon. I was 12 and it literally scared me so bad I rubbed the edge of my knife on concrete for a few minutes and then threw it away. Yep screw a hole bunch of actually honing a knife for someone else and that's the last time I handed someone my pocket knife too.

Ohhh I would never hand my knife to someone... they would just screw it up lol.

Geek

Yep I figured that out.

How did he lose both arms and survive? That's a lot of potential blood loss.

It was the knife not the machine and the reason there were so many stitches was all of the muscles n all. Went straight across his forearm. He couldn't even try to make a fist for 2months

If you ask me, it was user, and not the knife.


Mick