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What You Should Use to Sharpen Your Knives?
Sharpening knives is a process that most people don’t know much about. There are many ways to sharpen your knives, and each one has its own pros and cons. If you want to get the best edge possible for your knife, it’s important to know how various methods work so that you can find the one that will work best with your budget. In this blog post, we’ll take a look at the different sharpening methods available and what makes them unique!
Methods
There are a number of methods that could be used to sharpen your knives. Broadly speaking they are manual and machine. Within manual there are basic stone based methods and guided methods.
Guided methods help you maintain the correct sharpening angle and to help sharpen the knife and to help you maintain a consistent angle.
Oil stones, water stones and guided systems are all methods that can be used to manually sharpen a knife by hand. They create an edge with less metal removed than machine sharpening methods like grinding or abrasive belts. The abrasives used come in many different levels of coarseness and hardness. Depending on what you are trying to achieve will determine what your starting point will be.
A really abused and blunt knife will need to start on a coarser abrasive to help remove any dings and to set the profile for the blade. You will then reduce the coarseness going smoother and smoother until you achieve the edge that you require.
The popular water stone is made of a material such as silicon carbine, aluminum oxide or diamond. They are graded by grit size. Some of them come with two sides that can be used to either create an extremely rough edge for removing metal quickly and a finer one for finishing off the edge.
Strops
The simplest way to maintain the edge of your knife is by using a simple strop. A strop is usually a piece of leather glued onto a wooden block. Leather has both a rough and a smooth side. The smooth side is often used as is and the rough side usually has some chromium dioxide paste applied to help polish up the edge.
Double sided strops are available that have the smooth on one side and the rough on the other side.
Sharpening the Honey Badger Knife
It takes bit of skill to master the use of a strop but you need not worry about damaging the edge of your knife as stropping is a process that removes very little metal. The key to successful stropping is to maintain the angle with each successive stropping action.
Providing that the knife has not become totally blunt, just a few passes on a strop will produce a very sharp edge very quickly.
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The large drop point is my jam!! How perfectly this knife is engineered and appointed is almost an enigma to me! How did they get it to be so good and so budget friendly?
Honey Badger Knives are top notch for quality.
I do not own a a Honey Badger knife at the moment but I’ve heard nothing but good about these guys! I’m a beginning knife enthusiast and I live for the more budget friendly and on the occasion one that is more expensive for my collection. I’m adding all knives from different brands and if I won a knife from Honey Badger then they will have a spot in my collection and hopefully grow with the other brands I have now. Here’s to winning giveaways 🤘
I live in south Africa and love the Honey Badger knifes, excellent product competitive with ANY top tier name brands, parts and warrantee available easily. I will NEVER buy another top tier knife from abroad!!
Great quality at a great price point, replacement parts and ways to customize your knife. What more could you ask for?
honey badger has really good high quality knifes. i was gifted one, and since then i have it in my pocket all the time. once i lost it, so i told my family that who ever finds it gets 20 ILS
I love honey badger knives design.
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Best pocket knife I’ve owned. Have carried all the major brands for years. And great options in other brands, but what impressed with this brand is truly the quality of the blade, fit and finish. This is a gentleman’s/grown up’s knife though. Thin super sharp blade. If you use a knife as a screw driver and to jam into hard things, look elsewhere.
Just bought the honeybadger knife HB1017 flipper medium and I am well satisfied with it except for the lock bar. When you close the blade the release nub has a sharp edge that hits the end of your thumb. I filed the edge off without a problem but I feel this should be addressed by the designer.
Nice looking knife!
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