Freshened up about half of my turning tools for a couple of projects I'm about to start....
What did you hone today? -Knife and tool edition
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I just finished Lanskying my family's kitchen knives. There are 8 of them. I am also going to Lansky their head shaver plates. This will be the first time i am doing this. I have been the main one to use them and i want to see if honing the plate/s will give a better cut or not. This is at least a 10 year old razor that cuts/shaves good but i want to see how a honed one cuts.
My Plumb axe. It’s a work in progress. Pretty rusted when I got it. Cleaned it up, handle was still in good shape / rubbed with linseed oil.
Had two kitchen knives we inherited that where duller than butterknives and quite abused (one had the tip broken off), and I don't have a course stone, so today I picked up a "Diamond brand" aluminium oxide combo stone for $4.50 AUD (less than $3 USD) from an Asian grocery store to do the gruntwork. I belive it's a 250 and 150 grit combo, although it doesn't say on the box, then onto my King 6000/1000. Top knife is a Mundial, it needed less work, the middle is wood handle and a Wusthof (I believe) which needed more work to straighten the recurve and some reprofiling of the tip, the bottom is our own knife that just needed a stroke of two on a finishing stone. Satifactory paper slicing sharpness.
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Testing out my “new” translucent Ark with an antique penknife.
I have that stones twin. Same box and everything. I’ll post pics if I can dig it out of the pile.
Do you find the edge too smooth for some things?
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Oh sure. Nobody “needs” a translucent Ark edge on a knife. It’s impractically sharp. Razors, some tools, sure. But sometimes you just feel like turning a blade up to 11 for fun.
"It's one sharper, innit".
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Going through the early Pike catalogue from 1903, they sold $8 per dozen. I should have stocked up when I was young.
I wonder if anyone had HAD back in 1903?
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Correction, $13. Too rich for my blood.
To be honest, antique hones are one of the best bargains that can still be bought. I think it is because most people do not know how to use them.
Other antique tools are collected and go for big money. Vintage toys sell for a fortune. But I often buy antique hones for less than a newly mined version that is not as good. It’s weird.
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About to do some carving, so I sharpened a spoke shave blade. Lilly White Washita.
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Sloyd knife. Idwal/CrOx.
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