Where has the Sharpmaker BEEN all my life?

[P95Carry]

Hey Don - how's it going.

Good to see the web page - some real nice pics there. Looks like you are well into this now - excellent.

 

[mrmeval]

If you have a good knife worth the money and somehow you broke it it can be reshaped by file or grinder and then resharpened and polished. If it were very serious you'd want to replace the missing metal then do that. After that what ever finish you want applied.

In many cases the fantastic quality blade is welded to a tougher tang. This serves two purposes, it combines the best of both and it saves money. When done properly the weld will not break.

In antiquity a soft iron core would have good quality expensive steel welded to the edges.

This is for carbon steel. The stainless steels can be done if the heat treatment is not effected. Special welding and heat treating is needed and may exceed the cost of the knife.

I'm going to forward this thread to an expert and see if he wants to play.
:-D

I can't imagine filing or welding a blade! There's all kinds of ways knifemakers sharpen knives from belt sharpening to stones to Lanky-type machines to leather wheels to the Tormex Super Grind. I take it down with a 220 grit belt to where I use the Sharpmaker and go from there. I like giving the customer an edge he/she can sharpen when they need to.

 

[Valkman]

There are very few wrong ways, just ways that we all get used to and like. If one of my blades came back that damaged I'd make a new one - but we're not talking real expensive stuff here. Now having the right welder and welding a carbon steel tang on real expensive damascus is something I have thought about - why waste 4 or 5" of very expensive steel on the handle?

Who's your friend? I may know him from a different forum.

 

[mrmeval]

Mad Mike, the fellow with the bayonet on the rifle Oleg Volk has taken pictures of.

Welding a tang on would safe money if the blade did not already have one. And you'd weld it on in your forge or kiln.

There are very few wrong ways, just ways that we all get used to and like. If one of my blades came back that damaged I'd make a new one - but we're not talking real expensive stuff here. Now having the right welder and welding a carbon steel tang on real expensive damascus is something I have thought about - why waste 4 or 5" of very expensive steel on the handle?

Who's your friend? I may know him from a different forum.

 

[madmike]

Belt sander. Same 400 grit belt for 3 years. Dark gray buffing compound on a sisal buff. I use files on edges that have been chipped badly, abused, or "sharpened" by someone with a powered grindstone.

http://www.sharppointythings.com/careandfeeding.htm my advice on caring for knives, and I'll be updating: no kitchen knife EVER goes in a dishwasher. I will skin you for that sin.

I like the Lansky conceptually. But it's not great on large blades and hard to set the angle consistently on them--how far back do you set that clamp?

The Spyderco isn't worse than anything else, but it's not much better, and it's WAAAAAY overpriced.

 

[13.45]

i use the sharpmaker a lot, and find that hand-washing the stones with kitchen scouring powder (bon ami, etc.) works very well to remove loading