Post by SEDstar on Jun 24, 2019 16:10:48 GMT -5
Everything is new and learning, i like to move slowly, trying stuff here and there. I have never been good just making a LIST of all the required stuff, and buying everything and "just making it". This allows me to slowly acquire stuff and get used to it in a proper curve of use and learning, rather than just buying stuff and quickly ruining things, lol.
I have mentioned before, i have zero use with a "stone". i sometimes got a little stone with cheap knives? i never found them much use not ever really made anything sharp with one before. I *think* I now see what was going on... much like everything from files to sandpaper has a GRIT size, i think these were "little chinese 59 cent stones" from a bulk purchase of fairly rough grit. Combined with the cheap "440c" stainles knives that were the usual budget knives i got before, the steel was a little hard, the stone was rough grit, and thats why not much was happening, notwithstanding i didnt know what i was doing.
Its kind of SILLY i asm learning to make knives and i cant really sharpen one. i found an old dirty small stone in a box of junk i bought, one of those little "extras" you didnt really notice before. It was NOT a little chinese stone, it was a little "Carlton" nd it was smaller grit size than my little chinese stones of yore.
bored, i had some rust and corrosion spots on my little knives i used to cut meat with, and cleaned the little Carlton stone off with a old cup of water, and tarted playing with it like it was an eraser. Eh, i got some bad spots smaller and lighter, and i liked it enough i started wiggling it back and forth trying to clean up the edges and what not. While its not anything special i am sure, it was just enough playing and small success that i can now see the value and use of a stone "in general".
I found myself withing i had several larger ones in a couple different grits, to face off the whole small knife or rub on the edge.
having once used a surface grinder that was powerful and precise, i am thinking of a couple of larger stones would be the hand tool version of a surface grinder.
I have mentioned before, i have zero use with a "stone". i sometimes got a little stone with cheap knives? i never found them much use not ever really made anything sharp with one before. I *think* I now see what was going on... much like everything from files to sandpaper has a GRIT size, i think these were "little chinese 59 cent stones" from a bulk purchase of fairly rough grit. Combined with the cheap "440c" stainles knives that were the usual budget knives i got before, the steel was a little hard, the stone was rough grit, and thats why not much was happening, notwithstanding i didnt know what i was doing.
Its kind of SILLY i asm learning to make knives and i cant really sharpen one. i found an old dirty small stone in a box of junk i bought, one of those little "extras" you didnt really notice before. It was NOT a little chinese stone, it was a little "Carlton" nd it was smaller grit size than my little chinese stones of yore.
bored, i had some rust and corrosion spots on my little knives i used to cut meat with, and cleaned the little Carlton stone off with a old cup of water, and tarted playing with it like it was an eraser. Eh, i got some bad spots smaller and lighter, and i liked it enough i started wiggling it back and forth trying to clean up the edges and what not. While its not anything special i am sure, it was just enough playing and small success that i can now see the value and use of a stone "in general".
I found myself withing i had several larger ones in a couple different grits, to face off the whole small knife or rub on the edge.
having once used a surface grinder that was powerful and precise, i am thinking of a couple of larger stones would be the hand tool version of a surface grinder.