I new to sharpening . When you mean lower the angle I have a hapstone R2 angle sharpener . If knife is 17 degrees strop at 16.5 or 16 ? Tyvm for your time great video . Sub and liked .
Thanks for the message. Sharpening is such a neat art. If you ask 10 people how they sharpen your more than likely going to get 10 different theories on the best practices. In my opinion i find that lowering the angle 1/2 a degree when stropping finishes the knife off nicely. So, when I sharpen at 14 degrees, I'll strop at 13.5. With that being said I've also stropped at the same degree as I sharpened, and the results were great as well. Do it both ways and see if you notice a difference, then stick with the one that you feel works better for you😉
@@2guysandacooler There's many ways to skin a cat but certain facts are facts. A fact is that consumers don't have a good understanding of industrial abrasives or metalworking. Accurately graded distribution of abrasive diamond powder is incredibly cheap to buy wholesale or even retail. These heavily marketed and marked up products take advantage of that. You could buy enough diamond powder to make a literal lifetime of whatever sort of compound you want, be it oil based. water based, emulsion based, solvent based, wax bars. whatever you wanted. for about $10 retail. I guess my real issue I'm envious that I didnt come up with the idea to create such consumer products. The total cost to manufacture everything that is shown in this video with packaging and all the rest is well under $20. I wonder what the consumer paid for it. Its not even the excessive margins that's noteworthy, its the fact that there is literally nothing unique or special which anyone could not create themselves with a 25 cent bottle, a carrier of your choosing, a few grams of diamond powder in a distribution of your choosing, and a substrate to load it onto of your choosing. It blows my mind. A tiny sliver of synthetic substrate, 30 cents of diamond powder in each of those bottles, an emulsion carrier.... knife land is full of a lot of horseshit but this just seems like one of the most obvious examples of that. I would never think to start that business because I constantly over estimate humans for some reason. This is the main inhibition. Otherwise I could likely start my own MLM or maybe just a cult. Anyway. Have fun.
Pro tip. Start with the highest grit and work down when applying. No need to worry about cross contamination. Getting a splash of 600k on your 60k will have no effect. The opposite would be a problem.
can you please let me know regarding how dense is actually Nanocloth, it is somehow comparable with a very good leather or it is softer?
Good question, I'm trying to decide if I should add some to my Gritomatic order...
I new to sharpening . When you mean lower the angle I have a hapstone R2 angle sharpener . If knife is 17 degrees strop at 16.5 or 16 ? Tyvm for your time great video . Sub and liked .
Thanks for the message. Sharpening is such a neat art. If you ask 10 people how they sharpen your more than likely going to get 10 different theories on the best practices. In my opinion i find that lowering the angle 1/2 a degree when stropping finishes the knife off nicely. So, when I sharpen at 14 degrees, I'll strop at 13.5. With that being said I've also stropped at the same degree as I sharpened, and the results were great as well. Do it both ways and see if you notice a difference, then stick with the one that you feel works better for you😉
I really appreciate your time . This info is very helpful . Tyvm
@@2guysandacooler There's many ways to skin a cat but certain facts are facts. A fact is that consumers don't have a good understanding of industrial abrasives or metalworking. Accurately graded distribution of abrasive diamond powder is incredibly cheap to buy wholesale or even retail. These heavily marketed and marked up products take advantage of that. You could buy enough diamond powder to make a literal lifetime of whatever sort of compound you want, be it oil based. water based, emulsion based, solvent based, wax bars. whatever you wanted. for about $10 retail. I guess my real issue I'm envious that I didnt come up with the idea to create such consumer products. The total cost to manufacture everything that is shown in this video with packaging and all the rest is well under $20. I wonder what the consumer paid for it. Its not even the excessive margins that's noteworthy, its the fact that there is literally nothing unique or special which anyone could not create themselves with a 25 cent bottle, a carrier of your choosing, a few grams of diamond powder in a distribution of your choosing, and a substrate to load it onto of your choosing. It blows my mind. A tiny sliver of synthetic substrate, 30 cents of diamond powder in each of those bottles, an emulsion carrier.... knife land is full of a lot of horseshit but this just seems like one of the most obvious examples of that. I would never think to start that business because I constantly over estimate humans for some reason. This is the main inhibition. Otherwise I could likely start my own MLM or maybe just a cult. Anyway. Have fun.
Pro tip. Start with the highest grit and work down when applying. No need to worry about cross contamination. Getting a splash of 600k on your 60k will have no effect. The opposite would be a problem.