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Hi Karl,

I just got back from a holiday away from the internet. I picked up some chestnut wood that was cut about 2 months ago to make way for an oil pipeline. It seems to have been a 7 year old...

Thanks for the reassurance. Today I had a try at the stropping motion on plain leather and managed to find a natural motion. I put my right finger on the back of the blade as the left hand held the...

Hi again,

Another question - I have a horse leather strop designed for straight razors here at home, but it's not 100% flat (slightly 'dished'). Would that be a problem for stropping my knife with...

Hi Karl,

OK, great, now I feel confident to strop it when it arrives. I'm probably gonna get a Mora 120 to go with it and with those two try to make a spoon.

I don't want to repeat myself too...

Cheers Karl.Yeah, I totally agree about the toxicity issue, the mystery wood would only be used for practising using the knife. I like the idea of using some bamboo, it's very abundant here.My 164...

Thanks again, Karl.

I'd like to copy your method as closely as possible, so can I check I've understood it properly?

1) Hone the bevel on a stone, rotating the handle and pushing the blade...

Thanks Karl.

I've ordered the knife online and when it arrives I'll make a decision about how to have the bevel. As I am a fairly novice sharpener, I lean towards maintaining just the single...

Hi all,

I am planning to try making a small wooden spoon, and plan to order a crook knife to help with this. The Mora 164 is locally available locally.

Looking into how to get it sharp I found...

Cheers for all the replies.

MDF seems a very popular choice. I'm still tempted by the idea of using a flat, hard stone that has come pre-lapped as otherwise I'll worry too much about how flat the...

Hi all.

I am planning to have a go at some chromium oxide honing compound, and am trying to decide what to use as the substrate for it.

I've heard leather strops and balsa wood are good. I also...

Cheers for all the info,.

Btw, I'm also quite fond of my India combo stone. My introduction to sharpening was Leonard Lee's book, in which oilstones in general are reviewed very unfavorably, but...

Cheers for the reply, David.

Well, I used it this morning to prepare a new chisel for use (my set of chisels did not come ready to use!) and it worked well, so I'll think I'll stick with it as is...

Hi all,

I've got the stone flat now, using SiC grits 36-60 on glass.

However, some of the gunk that came off the fine side got into the pores on the coarse side.

I washed it in soapy water...

Hi guys,

Thanks for the advice.

Re using water, does that method rely on a perfectly flat sheet of abrasive? The sheets I have are flattish, but I'm concerned water may fail to stick them to...

Hi all,

I'm thinking of having a go at Scary Sharp, and was hoping to get some tips for precisely which spray adhesive to use to hold the paper down.

The other day I used 3M's no.67 spray...

Hi,

Had a go today with some SiC grit on glass (36-60 grit) and it's better than it was but there's 2 corners are still about 0.3mm out of flat. I'll continue a different day.

Have to say it's...

Hi all,

Today I checked the flatness of my Coarse/Fine India stone, and found the Fine side is not flat, kind of humped in the centre by ca. 0.5mm.

I have some P80 sandpaper at home (this is...

Hi,

I just had a thought, that when putting on a micro-bevel, I like to look carefully at the angle I'm doing it at, by studying the gap between the bevel and the stone.

My feeling is that a...

Hi all,

The other day I spent the best part of 3 hours regrinding a 3/4 inch chisel from about 30 degrees to around 15 degrees.

Today I honed it up to my Sigma 6000, then did about 50 strips...

Hi all,

Thanks for all the replies.

Could any of the palm stroppers tell me how to do this? I tried this once before, after my Sigma 6000, by laying the bevel on the bottom right corner of my...

Hi all,

I've been reading a lot about how stropping with a trailing stroke on untreated leather, newspaper, palm of a hand, denim etc can improve the edge on a tool.

I was hoping to ask 3 main...

Cheers for the link to naturalwhestone.com Joe. Have you purchased from them before?

They have a 8 x 3 x 1 Hard Arkansas for $40 at the moment, down from $60. I'm just worried that that price is...

OK, I've sent a message to Dan's to ask for their recommendation. On the basis of the comments here, I'm leaning towards a black now. My hope is for the stone to become an heirloom some day, so I may...

Cheers for the help.

I sharpen freehand at a skewed angle, and my India is just 2 inches wide, so a 2 inch wide one would be fine.

I'm tempted by the Hard Select partly because the 1 inch thick...

Cheers David.

Any idea about their Hard Select? It's a lot cheaper than the other hard stones they offer. I was thinking of perhaps using that after my Fine India.