Thread: What are you working on?

Originally Posted by MW76

Must.. burnish.. arkie..

Woke up early and decided to spend some time polishing up a new sb arkie. So ive been trying the 600 grit dressing stone on it for slurry, and sharpening every knife i have. Seems to be doing the trick.. slowly. Now I'm sharpening with just water.. might try diamond spray on it next.

Out of the box.


After 4 total hours of sharpening and rubbing with the dressing stone i have increased the reflectivity by .003 percent.


ok back at it..

lol .003% ou have a very fine eye for detail!

Originally Posted by AlanQ

lol .003% ou have a very fine eye for detail!

It's a close estimate. I forgot the plus minus symbol.

Originally Posted by Leatherstockiings

Home much more black could this be?
The answer is none. None more black.

Thank you for the spinal tap quote much appreciated.

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Outback awesome job those look amazing sir.

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I knew I had a couple of unmarried blades hanging around but damned if I could find them.

Came across them in a drawer today. Will be looking for some tasy scale material for these soon.

Geek

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Final result after about 6 hours. In the end i took a paint chipper and some 1, .5 and .25 micron diamond spray in order and just scraped the bejeezus out of the hone for about 10 minutes with each. Then the same with a hard nagura. It's not a mirror but its way better than it was. I may do the diamond progression again for kicks.

My kitchen light..

Looks close, but it is performance that counts, no how it looks.

Try some hard-flat, wide carbon steel, like an Ax head, wide chisel, plane blade or a big carbon steel knife, I use an old, thick meat cleaver.

The goal is, once flat and smooth, (2k wet and dry at least) is to burnish the face. Put the stone on the ground and use your body weight, to smooth the face further, use a bit of soapy water to lubricate. Take short strokes (1-2 inchs) and work from one end to the other, then some long blending strokes.

Smooth is what you want. Once you have it well burnished, do not slurry the stone or you ruin the finish, and have to burnish all over again.

An Ark edge is unique, it is keen and smooth, but not a slate, coticule or Jnat smooth. It is a unique, addicting edge, just strop on linen and leather, no paste to preserve the edge and refine it just a bit..

Thanks Euclid. Ill see what i can do with an axe!

This afternoon I took a razor and touched it up on the 12k, then did about 300 passes with water on the arkie as pictured above.. 50 passes on a strop, and shaved with it.

Definitely a smoother shave then just the 12k edge but i think it could be refined much further. Im gonna try mineral oil next. Water was just not right for this stone.

Ill keep working on the burnish on the top side of the stone. I dressed the other side but am leaving as is so i can use it with a few knives now and again.

Definitely a cool little stone to play around with. I've wanted one for ever and finally said what the heck.

Cutting some old walrus tusk down to size.
Hoping to make some scale stock out of this for a few friends.

Will be using a much finer blade for the actual scale slicing, but first I want to soak the tusk in some mineral oil under vacuum for a while. See if I can give it some elasticity again before hitting the saw. I am worried about all the natural splits being a sign of its brittleness. Want to give this the best chance for success.

The new 9" bandsaw handled the job effortlessly I am happy to report..

Awesome Mike! Excited and sad to see this sliced up. This thing was so cool in person. Looking forward to future updates!


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