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Old 06-08-2018, 06:48 AM
jimmontg jimmontg is offline
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I use diamond stones or hones, whichever term is correct.

Mainly because on very hard and wear resistant blade steels they will sharpen faster. I sharpen by hand and some steels can take all day. I may finish with a fine Arkansas stone to just hone the edge a bit. l usually just leave my knives just how they come off my 800 grit EZE Lap diamond stone that is 20 years old so it's a little smoother now. l find that is sharp enough for just about anything l want it to do except for cutting leather or wood carving. For those activities l take the edge down to 2000 grit using a very fine Crystolon oil stone and after that l strop my leather tools on 5000 grit diamond compound on thin leather glued to a stick and buff the edge finally with 10,000 grit diamond. A super sharp and smooth edge makes cutting leather a lot easier.
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