Thread: can i use my barber hone to sharpen a knife

thanks mick i have a good knife sharpener in mind now, just hope its up to keeping my arsonal of butcher knifes and skinning knives and pocket knifes sharp enough to be effective. maby once i get it ill finally sharpen my crackidile dondee knife.

I used my Lansky to sharpen my home made Dundee style bowie. I've put pictures of it up before, on other threads somewhere.


Mick

I use waterstones to sharpen knives going up to 6000 and usually put a microbevel on them. Then I use a pasted paddle strop and don't need to use the stones again on the knives unless they get dropped or severely battered. A paddle strop goes a long way and only takes seconds to get your edge hair popping sharp again without removing any steel.

Another cheap alternative would be an old Schrade Oldtime honesteel. They do remove metal but only require a few light licks like a chef's steel. They're hard to get in the UK but seem to be fairly easy to source in the States.

If you have a barber hone going spare it's free to use and will work I'm sure. They're hard to find over here, I don't even have one of them! Gutted. Oneday I will though...

I use the Lansky also,works just fine......

Originally Posted by Hirlau

One of my barber hones is an old Swaty that is in poor condition, I use it to polish out my knives and last week used it on an axe while I watched TV. I bring the knives to arm hair cutting on my carborundums and polish out with the Swaty. The axe does not cut hair, I'm not that good. I do like the smoothness of my knife edges after the Swaty.

There's an 85 year old man that my parents know, who I was talking to, and he told me a story about a barber he knew who used to give people shaves with an ax blade.

I have a lansky sharpening kit too, had it for several years now. My problem with it is that it takes AGES to sharpen my Shun Classic chef knife (VG10 ?).
Is this steel just hard to sharpen ?
Last time I sharpened all the cheaper kitchen knives I just did it by hand with a stone, I cut a little wooden wedge at 22.5 deg (approx) and just used that to periodically check my angle. It was a cheapo double sided oilstone and I got them nice and sharp in no time at all. So I am feeling a little miffed at my Lansky sharpener at the moment...

Originally Posted by kamikazeproject

There's an 85 year old man that my parents know, who I was talking to, and he told me a story about a barber he knew who used to give people shaves with an ax blade.

Shaving with an axe - Retronaut

looks like that axe has a high carbon steel insert.. My dad has one like that (single sided), it's a great axe.

Just run it across the bottom ring on your coffee cup each morning . That will take care of it.

I use the lansky turnbox. I have the diamond sticks and medium and fine ceramics. Then hard felt with crox spray and then leather strop. My spyerco tenacious can whittle hairs from that set up. It also sliced my thumb yesterday too. Oops.