Brian the brain wrote:Remember to sharpen with ever finer sharpening stones and finish the process by polishing the edge with PAPER.
That gave my katana such a sharp edge I could actually shave with it.
And spray some teflon onto it so it doesn't ...ahem...Stick.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scary_sharp
Just thought I'd bump this thead to discuss some non-knife edged items.
I had some firewood to split today (got a few logs from work that were nice and dried out and burned well), so I went to look for our old splitting axe that I haven't used in a couple of years.
Needless to say, the edge was dull as hell, and rusted gone. So, I used an air-powered diamond-grit grinding bit to reshape the edge, then used the method described in the article above.
I was so happy... the edge could shave off my arm hair. 8) I proceeded to split logs all the way down with only a stroke apiece.
I'm also looking at getting a new knife. My Gerber Paraframe decided to break completely in half as a result of me trying to use it like a survival knife. I'm looking a a Kershaw Leek... any opinions?