Let's Talk About Sharpening Our Survive! Knives

Ceramics are great for adding a micro bevel or maintaining an edge . That's how i set mine up when i poilsh...i use a ceramic to micro bevel to maintain it without ruining the poilsh.

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On thick knives in particular I find a strop to be helpful for cleaning up the big bevel so I can see how much more work I need to do with the stones.
It also does a good job of deburring before I set the final edge. I know that isn't quite the way that most people talk about using strops but I tend to like the crisp edge from stones.
I will strop the kitchen steel if I just want a quick touch up. I load my strops with fairly coarse compound (about 500 grit) so it doesn't take too many passes to clean things up.
 
Fancier said:
On thick knives in particular I find a strop to be helpful for cleaning up the big bevel so I can see how much more work I need to do with the stones.
It also does a good job of deburring before I set the final edge. I know that isn't quite the way that most people talk about using strops but I tend to like the crisp edge from stones.
I will strop the kitchen steel if I just want a quick touch up. I load my strops with fairly coarse compound (about 500 grit) so it doesn't take too many passes to clean things up.
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What compound do you use?
 
I have industrial lapping compound from a couple of sources. Anything with silicon carbide, cubic boron nitride, or diamonds that comes in a paste base seems to work fine.
 
Bumping this post for the good doctor.

Also, if you had one strop for the rest of your life, what would it be?
 
Well Silver, I'd take my extra long Strop Bat because then I'd have four strops for the rest of my life. :)
 
Silver Needle said:
Bumping this post for the good doctor.

Also, if you had one strop for the rest of your life, what would it be?
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I really only use one, the Strop Bat from JRE Industries. It has 4 sides, 3 loaded and leather. The bat has served me very well.
 
In terms of sharpening I am really new and not good at all. So i use a work sharp field sharpener that I am able to get a decent working edge on my knives with that can shave hair, but I wouldn't say with "ease".

However I came across this video where someone uses Trizact 3M sandpaper and it acts as sharpening stone/strop all in one.
Seems like an amazing, simple, cheap, to good to be true find!

Who knows....
I've ordered some to try it out

Check out the video on it

https://youtu.be/yK__FD1nfbY

Someone who knows how to post the video directly on the thread, feel free to do so!
 
XtianAus said:
In terms of sharpening I am really new and not good at all. So i use a work sharp field sharpener that I am able to get a decent working edge on my knives with that can shave hair, but I wouldn't say with "ease".

However I came across this video where someone uses Trizact 3M sandpaper and it acts as sharpening stone/strop all in one.
Seems like an amazing, simple, cheap, to good to be true find!

Who knows....
I've ordered some to try it out

Check out the video on it

https://youtu.be/yK__FD1nfbY

Someone who knows how to post the video directly on the thread, feel free to do so!
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Folks have been using sand paper for a long time to sharpen their blades.. hard backed for v edge and over a mouse pad or sheets like the video for a convex edge...

Its not a stone and strop in one...you have to use it edge trailing like when stropping thou otherwise it'll cut into the sheets when it's on a soft backing.

You still gotta strop for better results just like off a stone.

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Bobby3326 said:
Folks have been using sand paper for a long time to sharpen their blades.. hard backed for v edge and over a mouse pad or sheets like the video for a convex edge...

Its not a stone and strop in one...you have to use it edge trailing like when stropping thou otherwise it'll cut into the sheets when it's on a soft backing.

You still gotta strop for better results just like off a stone.

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What i mean is that it acts as a stone and strop in one, not that it literally is one.
Check the results. All the guy does is strop it 20 times and he says he has gone from blunt to shaving sharp.

Not that stropping it after wouldnt be better.
But seems like a simple way to get a decent edge on in a rush
 
I ran across somebody that packed emery cloth for emergency sharpening.
It doesn't crinkle up and tear the way that sandpaper will so it is more durable.
 
Fancier said:
I ran across somebody that packed emery cloth for emergency sharpening.
It doesn't crinkle up and tear the way that sandpaper will so it is more durable.
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The cool dudes around here got me introduced to emery cloth. I got some from a local hardware store.

Other than my early days with my GSO 5 I've been keeping my GSOs strictly on my strop and away from diamond plates. I managed to get a nice roll on the top corner of my hatchet when it dinged a rock, so I'll get some DMT practice soon.
 
Stropping is the best touch-up thing out there. I've been trying hard not to let a blade I've reprofiled or an already sharp one like a GSO get dull in the first place. Cuts down on the work a lot.

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Can anyone recommend a decent strop? I have been using my work sharp field sharpener and it is great, but i am not to fond of its strop + it is tiny.
 
I use Flex Strops (they also go by Flexxx Strops). They offer double sided ones in different sizes with black, green and white compound already preloaded (you get a choice of two compounds for a double sides strop you purchase with black being their grittiest and white their least gritty --- I've forgotten the microns). I have not heard negative comments about the quality of their products but one constant complaint (which I happen to agree with) is that they are kind of stingy with the amount of preloaded compound for their prices. That said, they use BRKT compounds and it will be worthwhile to buy some bars of BRKT compound as you wish to get good at stropping.

That Work Sharp "strop" leather piece is rubbish Mate!
 
Casinostocks said:
I use Flex Strops (they also go by Flexxx Strops). They offer double sided ones in different sizes with black, green and white compound already preloaded (you get a choice of two compounds for a double sides strop you purchase with black being their grittiest and white their least gritty --- I've forgotten the microns). I have not heard negative comments about the quality of their products but one constant complaint (which I happen to agree with) is that they are kind of stingy with the amount of preloaded compound for their prices. That said, they use BRKT compounds and it will be worthwhile to buy some bars of BRKT compound as you wish to get good at stropping.

That Work Sharp "strop" leather piece is rubbish Mate!
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Thanks Casino, i'll check it out :)
Do you recommend the black and white compounds or another combination?

and I agree... the WSS hardly works. But the rest of it works fine for me, I can get my RMD from blunt to cut paper and shave hair even with hardly attending to the so called strop.
Definitely will look into the flex strop but!
 
Aus: think of the BRKT black compound as coarse, the green as medium and the white compound as fine, so if you were to consider one double sided stropping paddle (they offer bigger sizes and width obviously at higher costs), I would recommend green and white to start off with as the black one can actually dull up the edge if you are just trying to polish the edge (caution: some other compound manufacturer's use white as coarse, green as medium and red as fine so be careful that you stick with the same consistency)

That Work Shop piece of leather they call strop doesn't even have any compound on it, hence it is pretty much useless just because it is so tiny. That said, some folks don't even use any stropping compound and use their leather belt for instance, but I suppose that the composition of the steel and the burr remaining after sharpening will call for different leather surfaces and different compounds or lack of any compound.

WTF do I know though? Silver is the stropping maven around here ;)
 
XtianAus said:
Can anyone recommend a decent strop? I have been using my work sharp field sharpener and it is great, but i am not to fond of its strop + it is tiny.
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CS is spot on.
Flexxx Strops are the best I've used yet and the black and green combo are my choice.
Personally I prefer a toothy edge, so the black compound works great. The green seems to dial in 20cv really well.
 
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