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Joe Calton
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Sharpening "in the field" is sometimes alot closer than what you think it is
so a couple weeks back I wrecked an edge and brought it back on a handy rock. a couple days later I watched a youtuber dismiss the whole idea of sharpening in the field and I thought id give a couple of thoughts on the idea that sharpening in the field is not always what you might think it is. caltoncutlery.com
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knife edge retention tips 8 plugged edges
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ever start work with a sharp knife working on something fatty or sticky, and suddenly lose your edge? it could be that your edge is just plugged up and the edge just needs a quick cleaning to get back to work. caltoncutlery.com
knife edge retention tips 7 pick the right grit stone for the work
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a couple thoughts on choosing a grit of finish stone that will suit the work that you want to do, and how finer grits are not always better. caltoncutlery.com
knife edge retention tips 6 glazed or dirty stones
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is your favorite edge not getting as sharp as it used to, or the edge not staying as sharp for as long as it used to? its a good bet that your stone may be dirty or glazed over with steel and loose abrasive paticles and wont cut as clean of an edge as it could be. caltoncutlery.com
knife edge rentention tips 5 destressing the old edge
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is you knife edge not holding an edge like it did fresh out of the box? seems like you need to sharpen it more often to do the same amount of work? these are classic examples of an edge that needs destressed, or reset. the idea is that you need to get rid of the old edge and a little bit of stressed steel behind the old edge to get to fresh steel for the new edge. caltoncutlery.com
knife edge retention tips 4 the burr
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if you have a knife that you just sharpened, and it will shave hair and cut paper without a sound and you think you have finally reached the pinnacle of sharpness. then you go into your first real cut and the edge starts to cut and then just fails, you might have a problem with removing the burr. caltoncutlery.com
5-8-24 pocket dump for ericasedc
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Erica from ericasedc showed off one of my pocketknives and asked me to do a pocket dump. includes my victorinox tinker, benchmade 940, prototype 2 blade slipjiont, and a new spyderco endura 4 in vg-10 caltoncutlery.com
knife edge retention tips 3 sharpening isnt a bad thing
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Sharpening a knife or needing to sharpen a knife is not a bad thing. it gives you a chance or an excuse to get your knife out, take a close look at it, touch up the edge, check the pivot, give it a cleaning or a drop of oil. just look it over really well and make sure that it is ready and able to do the work for the week ahead. caltoncutlery.com
knife edge retention tips 2 corrosion
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keeping your edge clean and dry and how much a little corrosion can affect your edge. the first time I really saw how much corrosion could affect an edge was at a razor makers meet and looking at one of my 440c stainless edges under a microscope. caltoncutlery.com
knife edge retention tips #1 expectations
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i decided to do a series of videos about tips around edge retention. I will try to keep the videos a bit shorter and concentrate on smaller pieces of each tip. this one has to do with expectations about edge retention, what will dull your edge and what will just wreck it. caltoncutlery.com
charcoal rivet forge
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so ive had this little rivet forge for quite awhile, and never got around to using it. a couple of weeks ago i got it out, "clayed" the bottom with dirt from my yard mixed with water and wood ash, when that dried I used a couple of firebricks and more wood ash to hold them up and fired it up on charcoal and am really happy with it. wish I would have started using it the day I got it. caltoncutl...
upgrades to cutting nail nicks with cuttoff wheels in a drill press
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so the other day I found some new cutoff wheels, and then a new arbor to mount them on to run them in a drill press for cutting nail nicks in slipjoint pocketknife folders. cutting the nail nicks in after heat treat and once you have all the parts together really cuts down on mistakes during assembly, as well as stress risers in heat treated blades compared to cutting them in before heat treat....
simpleshot unboxing and thier new and way improved included bands!
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so I heard that simpleshot was changing the bands that they include with thier slingshots from heavy hunting bands setup for 11mm steel to a much lighter set. so of course I had to see! the ones I got were 2 different sets, one for 9.5mm clay, and one for 9.5mm steel. these bands are a big improvement i think for a slingshot package. once you use both bands up, then you can decide if you want m...
1095 high carbon steel pocketknife daily maintenance
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my edc slipjoint needed a bit of cleaning, oil, and touch up the edge, so i figured to share that along with some tips for everyday care of 1095 and other high carbon steel knives and pocketknives. caltoncutlery.com
raising rabbits in chicken style coops and runs
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i have been raising meat rabbits for a little over a year now in chicken coop style apartments with enclosed runs and having pretty good results. the rabbits have good shelter from the elements and predators, and take turns having the freedom of the enclosed runs during the days and nights for excercise and getting thier steps in. i have not seen a setup like mine on youtube so figured I would ...
cabelas carnivore 1 horsepower meat grinder 6 year review
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cabelas carnivore 1 horsepower meat grinder 6 year review
round stock mycarta finished on the wedding dress knife
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round stock mycarta finished on the wedding dress knife
honing a made in pakistan straight razor
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honing a made in pakistan straight razor
cz bobwhite initial impressions review
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cz bobwhite initial impressions review
why build or buy a single speed 2x72 belt grinder
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why build or buy a single speed 2x72 belt grinder
Philip Dunn Slipjoint knife unboxing and look
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Philip Dunn Slipjoint knife unboxing and look
which finish stone is the best for straight razors?
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which finish stone is the best for straight razors?
Deer Rifles and Cartridges by Wayne Van Zwoll book review
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Deer Rifles and Cartridges by Wayne Van Zwoll book review
Feit electric 12,000 lumen led light review and comparison
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Feit electric 12,000 lumen led light review and comparison
flat plate sandpaper for handsanding pocketknife parts
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flat plate sandpaper for handsanding pocketknife parts
the problem is that the ants eat up all the peanut butter before the ground squirrels realize it's there.
1:46 ---> " things were really good for this buck that year "... until it crossed your way! 😂
Thai people are great! Thanks for the lesson. I pack stock into wilderness and this will definitely come in handy!
Another awesome video!
Very good and informative video. Beautiful folder. I'm new to your channel and didn't know you made folders. Great looking piece of work. Very good information on field sharpening. Good knowledge to have in a pinch. Have a great day!
thank you for the kind words! yes I make kitchen knives, outdoor knives, hunters, small game knives, hard use knives, choppers, slipjoints, straight razors, and the occasional lockback and linerlock, oh, and slingshots :}
Hi Joe, as I told you in the past (either here in the comment section or by email), I really like your practical, hands on approach to sharpening weither in the field or in the workshop. Thanks a lot for sharing info and experience.
thanks for the kind words, and I am glad that you like the videos!
Great Video Joe ! Sharp looking knife great work ! My condolences Joe about your mother-Inlaw thanks for the advice !
thank you!
New camera making a big difference.
I just watched the video and it looks like it is working pretty well :}
Thanks Joe awesome. Aren't headstones made of granite not marble? Marble is too delicate. Any way I came across this guy on YT the other day. Shaving 'in the field' Look at his humble hone and strop @ 1.10' ....You just can't beat living simply! th-cam.com/video/R5lmQHu3GQE/w-d-xo.html
I end up sharpening out and about all the time, in the back yard, at the storage building, out fishing with the kids etc etc. Edge falls off and out comes the double stuff 2. A minute and I'm back to a hair popping edge/micro bevel. Out camping for a week with the kids and same thing, I want to keep a great to use edge. A lot of the time the knife isn't unusable dull but I want great edges just because I like it and it's fun to me.
a fresh edge is a beautiful thing :}
I carried the scagel I got from you all week. Very slicey. Just got a GEC #56 dog leg jack. So I sharpened that up today and it will be in my pocket for the next week.
that gec 56 is a nice looking knife!
Magnacut is not that hard to sharpen Larens idea was to make a steel that had good balance between edge holding toughness and stain resistance. Think AEBL with better edge holding.
i am pretty excited to play with it! i quenched a couple test coupons at 50 degree intervals, broke them to see the grain. picked the one I liked best and made 2 small test blades to start finding the temper I like, but have not gotten to them yet. maybe this weekend or next week!
Wow that a great video!!!! It all looks amazing Joe!
thanks erica!
Good perspective, well-illustrated in those examples. And nice tribute to your late mother-in-law.
Thank you very much!
Image is really good!
thanks! and its pretty much open, point and go :}
Thanks for the video The image is much improved. The new camera shows
Good to hear!
Great video Joe! New camera looks fantastic!
thanks!!
Joe i just got a hard Arkansas. Honestly I think it one of the best stones I've got. BTW I would love for you to make me a fixed blade.
arks are very cool stones! sure I can make you a knife. you can send me a line on the contact page of my website and let me know what you would like.
I completely agree.
Good video and thank you for cheering you talent.
thanks!
Great info' Joe
thank you!
seems effective
Awesome tip never thought of that. I've noticed the tape thing my self. Had both things happen to me but never thought of that being the issue. Thanks for sharing.
Glad it was helpful!
Honing steel will also remove that fat, my question is which edge will be more resistant to that bucks fat 325 grit edge or polished edge
i like the 325 grit edge. but I have watched professional butchers work and they seem to get by really well with a steeled edge. so i think its best to try both and see which on you like the best
Hi Joe. Thanks for the videos. Can u do one on restoring and sharpening straight razors. Thanks
thanks! I have several videos on honing straight razors on my channel. for restoring them, i like to keep vintage ones mostly the way I find them besides honing. maybe tighten up the pivots, some oil, cleaning, and thats about it.
Loving this content Joe! Thanks for everything you do for us!!!❤❤❤❤❤
thanks for the kind words erica!
Great video Joe! I exoerience alot of tape\adhesive plug up at work.... WD40 works great to clean it up
wd-40 is an awesome cleaner!
Lighter fluid and gasoline work great too on tape/sticker glue, tree sap (particularly conifer resin) etc. When using chainsaws, ATVs, snowmobiles... gas is readily available. But of course, when skinning games as discussed in this video, using gasoline to clean a blade is not an option...
I disagree on the claim that fine edges have no slicing ability. I find with protein a high grit edge 10k or greater cuts super well. The protein feels like it just moves out of the way of the edge vs when the edge is coarse its tearing more than cutting.
on clean meat I can see your point. but the second you add in gristle or silver skin, then the higher grit edges start to struggle. I did a fun little series awhile back probably title opinel edge tests, where I took 3 of the carbon steel opinels, and put a dmt 325, king 6,000, and a king 6000 stropped on crox and used them to work up a mule deer that I had picked up a week earlier. I was wrong, it was chefs knives 325, 6000, 30,000 th-cam.com/video/82YJv9jmF0I/w-d-xo.html
Awesome video. I never thought of that!
Thanks for watching!
My preference for over 40 years has been Arkansas stones. White for everyday maintenance (slightly softer,quick results). Black Arkansas for in the shop.I'm usually sharpening chisels and plane steel. Flattening those stones seems nearly impossible.
loose silicon carbide powder and plate glass will flatten arks pretty well.
How about for salt water dive knife? Last time corrosion destroyed the edge causing deep chipping when I tried to sharpen.
i dont know much at all about salt water and knives. here in wyoming there isnt much salt water.
Great video
thanks!
Excellent video explanation. I’ve been looking for this information for a while. Just didn’t know how to word the question.
Glad it was helpful!
Nice idea, thanks. I need to do one quick lightweight routing job and don’t really want to spend money on the Dremel routing table. This could be the answer.
Glad to help
I would not spend a minute with most of the talking heads. Depictable bunch. PBD just show his standards when he defends Cuomo the way he does. Jimmy is a past Pot smoker commedian and more worthwhile then all of them combined. Realize these groups of media heads were trusted for years and the damage to the world in un-presidented.
My friend, your videos are great! Very informative and very helpful! Thanks for sharing knowledge! Have a great week!
Thanks, you too!
Dressing the old edge is necessary when the edge is chipped. It can be seen under magnification. If the edge is not dressed it might chip easier, but bit it is not necessary to dress the edge all the time. In my opinion it is only necessary if the material is fatigued already.
For bread I use Victorinox serrated knife which is possible to sharpen on one side because serrations are cut on other side so entire edge can be sharpen relatively easily, it works very well. For everything else I use Japanese knives but all of this knives are stainless and full tang. For sharpening I use mainly King 800 and King 1200 and natural hard jade stone from China. For jade stone I use fine nagura as additional abrasive, so jade stone works mainly as flat surface. King stones are used for general sharpening and jade stone is used for finishing or for micro bevel depending what is needed. I have got also Norton India Fine and Japanese 8000 stone and couple of rough silicon carbide stones which I use mainly for tools sharpening. I use one cheap silicon carbide stone only for Japanese stone flattening.
low frequency audio rumble especially when you put hands on table
is that good or bad?
@@joecalton1449 very bad
Joe I've got a soft Arkansas that's so glazed over. I bet it's around 2000 grit. LOL 🤣. I've got to lap it. ASAP
Been loving this series for a few weeks now, explained very well. I love 3 blade stockman knives for this very reason, you can have different blades finished for different cutting tasks. I like 2 blades with less refined edges and one finished on a transluscent. It is more than i have ever needed. I always say, sometimes you need a razor blade and sometimes you need a crosscut saw.
absolutley! my vicorinox tinker usually has a normal 325 grit edge on the main blade with pretty steep bevels and the factory grind, and the little blade has a lot leaner grind, very shallow bevels and still the 325 grit edge, but it is reseved for delicate work.
Really loving this series Joe!!!!!
thanks erica!
New Joe Calton Edge Retention Tip video? That's a must watch for me!
thank you for the kind words!
I agree 100%! For what I do...cooking/outdoor work...I rarely finish above a soft Ark. I also tend to use stropping compound on the coarser side to retain "tooth". My current favorite is Bark River Black. For meat cutting, I wouldn't want anything above 400 grit. If you haven't got "tooth", the "silverskin" on a muscle will stop a highly polished edge dead in its tracks and can wind up cutting the meatcutter. Keep preaching!
the edge off a well maintained soft ark is a beautiful thing. if I could not have my favorite dmt or smiths 325 grit edge, that soft ark is the one I would probably pick!
Great tips! Thank you.
Glad it was helpful!
this is exactly what I needed Joe you are the best man... now I need to train myself to feel for it so that when I get onto my 2000 3000 5000 stones I can smoothen that burr out
i can reliably feel a burr up to about 6000 grit. on days when my fingers are really calloused up sometimes I can feel it better on the palm of my hand or the skin on my forearm also so you might try those with a stropping motion of course
6/1/2024 I tried this method just now & WOW!!! GAME CHANGER!!! I saved some old dull blades hoping to find a way to sharpen them & this worked GREAT!!! I used Sensodyne Toothpaste (all I had in the house), spread a thin layer on a post it note and dried it with a heat gun. Marked my dull blade with a sharpie marker so I could see the edges to sharpen. I took a Bic pen, pulled out cartidge with a needle nose pliers and took a tiny piece of Loctite Fun Tak (bought at Walmart) and wedged it into opening of pen. I put the rubber protective blade covering (comes with the blade) on the dull round side of blade (opposite end of blade) and used pliers to jam it into pen. The rubber blade cover and Loctite Tak really helped to secure it into pen. When I removed blade from pen, I pulled it out of rubber cover with pliers and left rubber cover intact in pen casing for future use. Rubbed BOTH sides of blade 15 times each, over dried toothpaste, then tried it out on machine. I used cheap white cardstock & cut out two 1" circles; cut perfectly. Then I cut out a Rocket Image (4th of July) with intricate tiny star design inside & it cut precisely!! These stars were VERY tiny, less than 1/8." TRY THIS METHOD; IT REALLY WORKS!!!! 5 STARS!!! HIGHLY RECOMMEND!!!!
Great video! Do you have any tips on cleaning ceramic hones? Usually, if I'm home I wash them with dishes using a sponge and detergent, and in the field, I usually have disinfecting wipes with spirits in my medkit so I use those.
i have not used ceramics all that much because of the fast loading issue. but I would try a bristle brush and dish soap. that seems to work on just about any stone that i have tried.
Thanks, Joe! I always learn something here!
good to hear that!!
Pakistan straight razor the whole build itself is a razor just like a sharp sword and their steel is much stronger then all European steel,Pakistan straight razor are one of a kind they’re damn good and sharp,unlike western straight razor where you have to insert a blade in it,but Pakistani straight razor the whole body is a razor itself