Ordered some sharpening stones to try...kinda stoked

[911 Rod]

Originally Posted by wdfifteen

Kind of.

I use a "draw through thing" because of my wife. She has no respect for knives and even complains if they are "too sharp." Putting a lot of effort into keeping knives sharp around here is a waste of time. I do what I can to keep them usable, but it's a constant struggle. The "draw through thing" works for me under the circumstances.

Case in point:
Just the other day she baked a frozen pizza on a pizza stone. She even got out the wooden pizza cutting board - then dragged the pizza stone and pizza on top of the cutting board and proceeded to use my best chef's knife to cut the pizza against the stone.

I have a Ken Onion belt sharpener for roughing in knives and bigger stuff when they've gotten really bad.

That is my wife!
I bought the most expensive knife I ever have (from Pelican advice) and the first time she uses it I see the tip sticking in the SS sink Drain. I lost it a couple of times and now I just don't give a s#it.

[pwd72s]

Here as well...use the oil stone for pocket & hunting knives. But Cindy insists on cutting on ceramic plates with the kitchen knives. I bought an electric "diamond" sharpener for those. "Chef's choice" brand...not perfect, but makes 'em sharp enough for what she does...

[ramonesfreak]

i think i spent about $1,200 on knives for my wife just before we got married because she is quite the chef and deserves nice knives. the first time she used them she cleaned them all with the rough side of the sponge. all the blades looked as though she cleaned them with sand paper. she had no idea why this would upset me. but, her knives so i’m done worrying about it.

[pwd72s]

Originally Posted by ramonesfreak

i think i spent about $1,200 on knives for my wife just before we got married because she is quite the chef and deserves nice knives. the first time she used them she cleaned them all with the rough side of the sponge. all the blades looked as though she cleaned them with sand paper. she had no idea why this would upset me. but, her knives so i’m done worrying about it.

Yeah, it's as if wives feel they can use/abuse knives as they see fit. All the while thinking that we are some kind of magical elf who can easily keep them razor sharp.

The electric sharpener saved my sanity...like I said, it sharpens good enough and does so easily.

[masraum]

I've been acquiring (and using) more woodworking hand tools that require sharpening, plus I've got knives (whether pocket or kitchen) that I like to keep sharpened.

I had a cheap King brand combo water stone (1000/6000). (I've since seen some folks say "buy stones like X and Y, but whatever you do don't buy these," and it's the stones that I had. I also bought a Trend combo steel diamond plate (325/1000) which gets lots of recommendations. I then had an issue that some other folks have run into where the 1000 grit side delaminated from the plate. The 325 grit side is fine. I don't know if it's a problem with the particular plate/batch that I got or if it's something that I did wrong (pressing too hard maybe?). I still use the 325 grit side. I got a DMT combo plate that's on a plastic base, so it's not machinist flat, but it's good enough for sharpening knives. It seems to work really well. I like it.
But I recently decided to up my game a bit and bought the Shapton Pro/Kuromako 1000 (orange) stone and 5000 (wine). These are MUCH better than the old King that I had (but then they were 3x the price. I'm using the old Trend 325 grit as a flattener for the Shapton stones. I pretty easily get the anything that I sharpen (chisels, plane blades, knives) sharp enough to shave hair. Something that I've realized is that stropping is a pretty vital step to getting a knife sharp. Last Christmas, I got a strop kit online that came with the strops as well as one of the wax strop compound sticks. What a pain in the rear, but it does make a huge difference in the blades. After seeing a video online I want to take my sharpening to the next level so I'm going to get some better stropping compound.

I stumbled across this guy the other day. He gets knives pretty insanely sharp. He can actually lay a hair over a blade (only the weight of the hair) and split the hair down the middle or cut it. I've never seen anything like it. Other than that he's great at knife sharpening, I think the real key if you're reasonably good at sharpening is stropping with a good stropping compound when you're done.

[masraum]

Here's an entertaining video where he describes what he thinks the "7 levels of knife sharpness" are.

[1990C4S]

I haven't converted to this method yet. But I am going to...

[masraum]

Originally Posted by 1990C4S

I haven't converted to this method yet. But I am going to...

Yeah, I've seen that video and thought it was pretty cool.

This is the stropping compound that the other guy recommends.
They make it in various sizes (grit size)
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B083FSFMWY/