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Wet stones are hard. Rolling ones are easy albeit “real” knife aficionados don’t like it.
by dzhiurgis 1y ago
Wet stones are hard. Rolling ones are easy albeit “real” knife aficionados don’t like it.
- maqp 1y agoThey're really not. All you need is an angle guide you stick to the knife. Something like https://setamono.co.za/products/knife-sharpening-angle-retainer https://setamono.co.za/products/knife-sharpening-angle-retai... With that all you need to do is pretty much go back and forth. Note that the whetstone eventually wears them out too. Something to grab while you're at it, is a truing stone to take care of the whetstone as it _will_ wear out unevenly making the sharpening a pain.
- dzhiurgis 1y agoThats 2-3 extras over rolling sharpeners
- ReptileMan 1y agoWhetstones were hard 20 years ago. Right now there is abundance of quality info and products. The community actually figured out idiotproof and effective ways to deburr, to strop, resin bound diamond stones are affordable (or even cheap if you just buy the abrasive from China and go the diy route).
- kminehart 1y agoI used to sharpen my straight-knife planer blades, planing irons, chisels, and knives with whetstones / water stones. It was too big of a pain in the ass over time, so I switched to diamond stones. Biggest advantages is that you don't need to pre-soak them and diamond stones don't develop a valley / have to be flattened. if you plan on getting into sharpening I would just start with a coarse, fine, and extra fine diamond stone and a leather strop w/ stropping compound.
- xxs 1y agoSame advice - don't use the soaking stones. Nowadays they are plenty of decent quality diamond stones (or ceramic ones)