petrosil
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I finally got my Strider PT sharp! I use the Spyderco Sharpmaker for my knife sharpening and a Torrmek for chisels, plane irons and scissors. I was having a hard time getting my PT sharp and I thought there must be someting wrong witht the knife because no matter how much time I spent with the Sharpmaker I couldn't get it hair popping sharp. It was my first attempt at sharpening S30V and I thought, maybe it's not the knife, maybe it's the steel that's the problem-I knew it wasn't me cool 1
I like the results I get when I sharpen my other knives using the 40° (20° each side) slots on the Sharpmaker and that was what I was using on the PT. Well it took a while but I finally figured that maybe the real problem was that S30V is tough steel and I was trying to reprofile the edge using some rather fine grit ceramic stones. I'd broke down and decided to buy the Spyderco diamond covered steel triangles ($42.50 on eBay). Waa-Hoo what a difference! I could feel the diamonds cutting into the steel and was able to reprofile the knife with about 10 passes on each side. I finished up with the finer stones and then stropped it on my homemade strope--hair popping sharp, finally!!
So what do you use for sharpening?
Lou
I like the results I get when I sharpen my other knives using the 40° (20° each side) slots on the Sharpmaker and that was what I was using on the PT. Well it took a while but I finally figured that maybe the real problem was that S30V is tough steel and I was trying to reprofile the edge using some rather fine grit ceramic stones. I'd broke down and decided to buy the Spyderco diamond covered steel triangles ($42.50 on eBay). Waa-Hoo what a difference! I could feel the diamonds cutting into the steel and was able to reprofile the knife with about 10 passes on each side. I finished up with the finer stones and then stropped it on my homemade strope--hair popping sharp, finally!!
So what do you use for sharpening?
Lou