Thread: Trailing or push stroke?

Originally Posted by Pauly

Mainaman,

I'm sorry, but that video is about as useful as a handkerchief in a wetsuit.

Maybe if you had one knife you could lavish attention on you could use that technique, but you can't do that when you're going through your knife roll. I'll sharpen 4 to 8 knives each week and I'm not going to spend half an hour on each one.

As far as the video is concerned I think you are missing he point here.

When using circles as strokes you would employ both edge trailing and edge leading motion.
The regular x-stroke is just as effective, I have never seen any discussion on trailing vs leading stroke, but I'll guess the edge leading stroke works a lot better.

In the end sharpening knives and razors is two very different things, razor edges are a lot more delicate and require more control to get best final results. IMO edge leading stroke allows for that level of control.