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Re: Sharpening knife
Posted: Tue Jan 12, 2010 4:14 am
by HunterAU
I have a knife with a round edge.. how do i sharpen that one?
Do i cut it back to a V edge or will that fornicate the knife?
Re: Sharpening knife
Posted: Tue Jan 12, 2010 4:17 am
by deerhunter338mag
HunterAU wrote:I have a knife with a round edge.. how do i sharpen that one?
Do i cut it back to a V edge or will that fornicate the knife?
get a new one easer for you

Re: Sharpening knife
Posted: Tue Jan 12, 2010 10:20 am
by Lena
Re: Sharpening knife
Posted: Tue Jan 12, 2010 8:37 pm
by guns_and_labs
HunterAU wrote:I have a knife with a round edge.. how do i sharpen that one?
Do i cut it back to a V edge or will that fornicate the knife?
For convex (round) edges, I use a leather strop mounted on a board, with compound added. Then I just strop, with little pressure.
Some others use fine grit sandpaper on a computer mousepad. Seems to work, too.
The trick is to strop carefully, and with little pressure, or it screws up the edge.
Re: Sharpening knife
Posted: Wed Jan 13, 2010 6:53 am
by HunterAU
guns_and_labs wrote:HunterAU wrote:I have a knife with a round edge.. how do i sharpen that one?
Do i cut it back to a V edge or will that fornicate the knife?
For convex (round) edges, I use a leather strop mounted on a board, with compound added. Then I just strop, with little pressure.
Some others use fine grit sandpaper on a computer mousepad. Seems to work, too.
The trick is to strop carefully, and with little pressure, or it screws up the edge.
Thanks mate you have provided valuable information unlike the two others that placed a comment...!!!

Re: Sharpening knife
Posted: Wed Jan 13, 2010 11:38 am
by Lena