Absolutely 💯 I find that thickness of grind has a much larger effect on sharpening difficulty (i.e. time spent) than steel type. Sub 0.015" makes any steel a breeze with the correct abrasive! Thanks for watching buddy 🙏
10:40. You're starting on leather strop edge leading for a few mm. Is this to find the angle? Curious i you go too high, aren't you catching and cutting into the leather?
Yes it is to find the angle. Actually, starting to cut into the leather is what I'm looking for. If you use very light pressure, edge leading, and very slowly push as you slowly raise the angle, you will feel when the edge bites into the leather. That's how you know you are hitting the apex. Then drop the angle about half a degree to account for give in the leather and do normal stropping strokes. Thanks for watching and commenting 🙏
8:18 "There is no disadvantage to doing more deburring strokes". Aren't you increasing the chance of creating a wire edge with so many edge trailing strokes?
As long as you do light pressure and alternate sides each stroke there's essentially no possibility of creating a burr. The burr only forms when you reach the apex, then keep grinding past that. These strokes are removing so little material at a time it's essentially a non issue. Great question though thanks for asking 🙏
I wish all the "X, Y and Z steels are hard to sharpen" people could get a chance to sharpen a properly thin ground (
Absolutely 💯 I find that thickness of grind has a much larger effect on sharpening difficulty (i.e. time spent) than steel type. Sub 0.015" makes any steel a breeze with the correct abrasive! Thanks for watching buddy 🙏
Informative video, thanks👍
Thanks for watching! Glad you enjoyed 🙏
10:40. You're starting on leather strop edge leading for a few mm. Is this to find the angle? Curious i you go too high, aren't you catching and cutting into the leather?
Yes it is to find the angle. Actually, starting to cut into the leather is what I'm looking for. If you use very light pressure, edge leading, and very slowly push as you slowly raise the angle, you will feel when the edge bites into the leather. That's how you know you are hitting the apex. Then drop the angle about half a degree to account for give in the leather and do normal stropping strokes.
Thanks for watching and commenting 🙏
8:18 "There is no disadvantage to doing more deburring strokes". Aren't you increasing the chance of creating a wire edge with so many edge trailing strokes?
As long as you do light pressure and alternate sides each stroke there's essentially no possibility of creating a burr. The burr only forms when you reach the apex, then keep grinding past that. These strokes are removing so little material at a time it's essentially a non issue.
Great question though thanks for asking 🙏