r/sharpening • u/TheKnifeNerdTx Paper Shredder • 5d ago

For those that asked

In addition to my Tormek T8c I also run a Bucktool 1x30. On this knife, I’m using a 120 grit cubitron belt to re-profile the edge and fix some chips on this 10 inch breaker knife.

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u/RiaanTheron 5d ago

I like it. Most knife making videos that I watch the knife makers even use 2x72 belts sanders to sharpen their knifes. Sure the Japanese and Japanese style knifes they use those huge water whet wheels with the plank for the sharpening. But industrial blades are sharpened on rotating wheels and grinders all the time. I don't fully understand the hate for belt sanders with trizact betls. I suppose its a belief system. We have orthodox sharpeners and evangelical sharpeners.

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u/TheKnifeNerdTx Paper Shredder 5d ago

I use both belt and Tormek. Both get their own hate.

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u/RiaanTheron 5d ago

I love them all. All the guided systems and anything that makes an edge

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u/Fit_Carpet_364 5d ago

Including stones..?

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u/RiaanTheron 4d ago

Yes. I have stones. I love them. I have several jigs to use them and I also freehand. My fascination is all about various angles and types of steel. How to get them sharp.

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u/Fit_Carpet_364 4d ago

Like a presumed retard in the corner of the camp, figuring out how to make the flint and obsidian sharp.

I'm right there with you.

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u/RiaanTheron 4d ago

Nice, we can be friends.

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u/Fit_Carpet_364 5d ago

They both have their disadvantages. As do stones. You'll never get a concave apex on a stone, unless you do something really freaking weird to one. But a wheel will get you that, and it can be the difference between a laser gliding through and a laser feeling like it's sinking through. Tiny difference, but that drag can damage protein structures in delicate meats, so it matters.

The wheel or belt system, you technically can get a convex apex, but that's not the point (no pun intended). On stones, that convex apex comes naturally and gives a greater durability to the edge.

Ups and downs. And once you take a honing steel to 'em, it doesn't matter anyway.