03-04-2018, 09:04 AM
I polish sometimes, very rare, edges when I sharpen knifes for coroners and sushi chefs, they both need poished edges that also are scarry sharp.
When I live outdoors I normally end up my sharpening with a 25 micron diamond sharpener and then a finer ceramic sharpener sliding across the edge 2-3 times. Duringvthe sixties and seventies i used stones and ghe grit of those stones was unknown
but it worked for me. I used natural stones when I forgot my sharpener at home. When diamond sharpaners come I have one hanging in my knife belt. It was a red plastic EzeLap sharpener, I do not remember the grit
I remember that I liked the diamond sharpeners when they come and they changed the way I sharpen knifes - and for the first time (for me) i have a sharpener that did not change it shapes for me, that was a big thing and it leads me to new thougts about a shatpening tool that could sharpen both flat and convex edges with free sharpening angles.
As I wrote above, old knife knowledge have dissapeare,, so also knife understanding ans how knifes works. More and more fantasy knifes come in to the market with wonderful cool design - and people by them becose they looks cool. Tanto tips, recurved edges and so on, the type if edges and rios used in Japan and India in tropic climate - and people cannot sharpen them, "how ro sharpen a recurved edge with a flat sharpener is a common question on knifes forums and fairs today... Eye-sweat design - but very bad outdoor knifes - and we are back to officedesk survivers and designers.
Then, we humanas have all a bad side (bad today, good dor our evolution earlyer). When we know a little - we think we know it all - and start to use our knowledge and we feel superial all other people. That makes young people in cars to killingen selfs in accidents about 2-3 years after they started to drive. It was the same genetic genes that forced US humans to develop and give us more advanced technology.
When I am on fairs many people show me knifes that they say sont work for them "shelf warmer" we call them. Often cool design,never thick blade, crazy edgeprofiles and edge angles above 45 degrees total edge are common, small tiny knifes are also common = knifes people have bought that have a nice design - but bad functionallity...
Most people i Scandinavia by a Mora knife - and they allways work. Many people think that Mora knifes are "boring" and they bye good looking knifes instead - that do not work at all....
Then, once again - 90 % of people lives in citys today and they do not work in materials their forefathers did - or materials there is outdoors. City people needs city people knife design to get knifes that work for them. And - those knifes work bad outddors. They work to "survive" a day with barberque outddors in the Forest - but not so much moore.
It is also city people that by so called "surviving knifes" with cool designs - becouse they like to survive outdoors...
In reality, to survive outdoors needs knowledge, in first hand knowledge of weather and wind so that you never come in a bad life depending situation in first hand. That the most important knowledge to survive.
Next knowlege is to know, and understand : keep warm, dry - and never go hungry. If you follow that you will survive most weather ans winds outsoors.
In Scansinavia we dont have problem with wild animals becouse the wild animals are more afraid of US then we are afraid if them, we have bears and wolfes and so on - but we have hunted them for thousends of years so they know we are dangerus ( i have big respect for moose becouse they have hunted me three times and it takes around 3 houers before they have up). I have meet bears many times and we both change directions in a respektfull way and pass eachother politly. Knowledge to not provoce wild animals is nice to have also. It is nice to know when to back of to avoid attacks...and how to back of...
We humans are creative and curious and we have a builder Gene inside US I think. We have use knifes and axes ao long time, more then a million years, so we have those tools in our genes. Also when we do bot need them - and becouse of this we allways like to by them..."they could be nice to have" way if thinking - but I think that is our genes talkning
Thomas
When I live outdoors I normally end up my sharpening with a 25 micron diamond sharpener and then a finer ceramic sharpener sliding across the edge 2-3 times. Duringvthe sixties and seventies i used stones and ghe grit of those stones was unknown
but it worked for me. I used natural stones when I forgot my sharpener at home. When diamond sharpaners come I have one hanging in my knife belt. It was a red plastic EzeLap sharpener, I do not remember the grit I remember that I liked the diamond sharpeners when they come and they changed the way I sharpen knifes - and for the first time (for me) i have a sharpener that did not change it shapes
for me, that was a big thing and it leads me to new thougts about a shatpening tool that could sharpen both flat and convex edges with free sharpening angles.As I wrote above, old knife knowledge have dissapeare,, so also knife understanding ans how knifes works. More and more fantasy knifes come in to the market with wonderful cool design - and people by them becose they looks cool. Tanto tips, recurved edges and so on, the type if edges and rios used in Japan and India in tropic climate - and people cannot sharpen them, "how ro sharpen a recurved edge with a flat sharpener is a common question on knifes forums and fairs today... Eye-sweat design - but very bad outdoor knifes - and we are back to officedesk survivers and designers.
Then, we humanas have all a bad side (bad today, good dor our evolution earlyer). When we know a little - we think we know it all - and start to use our knowledge and we feel superial all other people. That makes young people in cars to killingen selfs in accidents about 2-3 years after they started to drive. It was the same genetic genes that forced US humans to develop and give us more advanced technology.
When I am on fairs many people show me knifes that they say sont work for them "shelf warmer" we call them. Often cool design,never thick blade, crazy edgeprofiles and edge angles above 45 degrees total edge are common, small tiny knifes are also common = knifes people have bought that have a nice design - but bad functionallity...
Most people i Scandinavia by a Mora knife - and they allways work. Many people think that Mora knifes are "boring" and they bye good looking knifes instead - that do not work at all....
Then, once again - 90 % of people lives in citys today and they do not work in materials their forefathers did - or materials there is outdoors. City people needs city people knife design to get knifes that work for them. And - those knifes work bad outddors. They work to "survive" a day with barberque outddors in the Forest - but not so much moore.
It is also city people that by so called "surviving knifes" with cool designs - becouse they like to survive outdoors...
In reality, to survive outdoors needs knowledge, in first hand knowledge of weather and wind so that you never come in a bad life depending situation in first hand. That the most important knowledge to survive.
Next knowlege is to know, and understand : keep warm, dry - and never go hungry. If you follow that you will survive most weather ans winds outsoors.
In Scansinavia we dont have problem with wild animals becouse the wild animals are more afraid of US then we are afraid if them, we have bears and wolfes and so on - but we have hunted them for thousends of years so they know we are dangerus
( i have big respect for moose becouse they have hunted me three times and it takes around 3 houers before they have up). I have meet bears many times and we both change directions in a respektfull way and pass eachother politly. Knowledge to not provoce wild animals is nice to have also. It is nice to know when to back of to avoid attacks...and how to back of...We humans are creative and curious and we have a builder Gene inside US I think. We have use knifes and axes ao long time, more then a million years, so we have those tools in our genes. Also when we do bot need them - and becouse of this we allways like to by them..."they could be nice to have" way if thinking - but I think that is our genes talkning
Thomas