Great videos m8 , love the way you can do magic on the tormek ,i just got 1 myself and i am using your videos to guide me along ,i did ruin 1 knife but it can be repaired with a lot of sanding ,keep up the good work you have a lot of costumers thats great 😊
@@Skarphedin treasure your first ruined knives. They’re the pain you must endure in order to appreciate why the right way is the right way. Appreciate your view and comment. Enjoy your journey and new obsession.
Brother Baz excellent job. What kind of dinosaurs are they hunting in South Australia? That knife looks fierce. You remind me so much of a gentleman I met back in 2006. I really appreciate your sense of humor. These long form videos really are informative. Keep up the good work. Give Chili a big hug for me.
@@GooseGooseYT great to have you on board! I’ve only ever done one kukri and yes, all reverse curve knives have to be ground off the side of the wheel. You’ve got a T8? I love showing things I’ve learned. Good to know you like tutorials. Stick around, and don’t be shy to make requests.
@@iSharpen I don't have a T8, but it looks like an incredibly versatile machine. Currently I have a whetstone, a belt sander, a six inch bench grinder, a two inch sanding wheel on a drill press, and an angle grinder. I guess I do have a file set as well. I'm a blacksmith and knifemaker, but I am on a tight budget so I don't have the best tools.
@@GooseGooseYT the edge doesn’t know how it came to exist. It just is. Ommmm. 😉 I envy you guys with whetstone skills. I love my Tormek T8 but it feels like cheating.
@@GooseGooseYT it’s un Australian to not “give it a go” but if you follow outdoors55 videos you’ll be a champ in no time. I’ve had many people bring their knives in to me who have tried and given up after battling a knife for hours. I look at the the and they were all over the road like a lost hairy goat. It’s easy to screw it up and if you don’t understand the edge and what you’re trying to achieve you’ll be frustrated. Especially on the harder steels. You have to be consistent, have the correct movement and angle, understand the burr and grades and use flat stones but people have been using stones to sharpen knives for tens of thousands of years so there’s a fair chance that it probably won’t take you that long.
So when altering the profile of your abrasive wheel, does another stone work better than a diamond stone dresser with all those little hardened star shapes or an old diamond plate (the cheap ones)?
@@liquidrockaquatics3900 a Diamond plate also works but the dressing stone seems faster. I use the diamond stone to maintain the radius though. They both work.
@iSharpen Thanks! What about when you are done with recurve and then you want to sharpen regular knives. Do you need to true the wheel so to corners are not rounded?
Great videos m8 , love the way you can do magic on the tormek ,i just got 1 myself and i am using your videos to guide me along ,i did ruin 1 knife but it can be repaired with a lot of sanding ,keep up the good work you have a lot of costumers thats great 😊
@@Skarphedin treasure your first ruined knives. They’re the pain you must endure in order to appreciate why the right way is the right way.
Appreciate your view and comment. Enjoy your journey and new obsession.
Brother Baz excellent job. What kind of dinosaurs are they hunting in South Australia? That knife looks fierce. You remind me so much of a gentleman I met back in 2006. I really appreciate your sense of humor. These long form videos really are informative. Keep up the good work. Give Chili a big hug for me.
@@pansandplans haha, I will and thanks for the feedback. Long form is where I like to be as well. I have more planned.
This is amazing tutorial man! Definitely subscribing.
Do you sharpen a kukri the same way?
@@GooseGooseYT great to have you on board! I’ve only ever done one kukri and yes, all reverse curve knives have to be ground off the side of the wheel.
You’ve got a T8? I love showing things I’ve learned. Good to know you like tutorials. Stick around, and don’t be shy to make requests.
@@iSharpen I don't have a T8, but it looks like an incredibly versatile machine.
Currently I have a whetstone, a belt sander, a six inch bench grinder, a two inch sanding wheel on a drill press, and an angle grinder.
I guess I do have a file set as well.
I'm a blacksmith and knifemaker, but I am on a tight budget so I don't have the best tools.
@@GooseGooseYT the edge doesn’t know how it came to exist. It just is. Ommmm. 😉 I envy you guys with whetstone skills. I love my Tormek T8 but it feels like cheating.
@@iSharpen I unfortunately have zero whetstone skills, but I try. It shouldn't be too hard, right...?
@@GooseGooseYT it’s un Australian to not “give it a go” but if you follow outdoors55 videos you’ll be a champ in no time.
I’ve had many people bring their knives in to me who have tried and given up after battling a knife for hours. I look at the the and they were all over the road like a lost hairy goat. It’s easy to screw it up and if you don’t understand the edge and what you’re trying to achieve you’ll be frustrated. Especially on the harder steels.
You have to be consistent, have the correct movement and angle, understand the burr and grades and use flat stones but people have been using stones to sharpen knives for tens of thousands of years so there’s a fair chance that it probably won’t take you that long.
So when altering the profile of your abrasive wheel, does another stone work better than a diamond stone dresser with all those little hardened star shapes or an old diamond plate (the cheap ones)?
@@liquidrockaquatics3900 a Diamond plate also works but the dressing stone seems faster. I use the diamond stone to maintain the radius though. They both work.
@@iSharpen thank you!
@@torsen1987 useful?
Baz, do you have to true the wheel after you round the corners?
@@PatrioticEdge I true the wheel then I round the corners.
@iSharpen Thanks! What about when you are done with recurve and then you want to sharpen regular knives. Do you need to true the wheel so to corners are not rounded?
@@PatrioticEdge nope. I like rounded edges. They're safer so if I have to make them, I keep them.
@@iSharpen Awesome! Thank you for your time and knowledge.