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I don't have a huge amount to add to this thread apart from to say... the Cerax 1/3k an awesome stone. It's astonishingly good. The Cerax 3k or 'Ouka' is probably the most perfect waterstone I've...

Or... keep one side glazed and use it to finish! Passing the hanging hair test off a coarse stone (120) | Kitchen Knife Forums

Ah yes, I can imagine that some of the more specialist types/shapes require some different more ‘creative’ sharpening methods.

Good to know though that I didn’t type all that out for nothing or...

So I missed one possibly quite important word in your post above (which probably should have dawned on me considering the nature of this forum, duh!): 'woodcarving'.

What I wrote above would...

Oh and - I suspect it sounds like you have a King 1k/6k combi...?

As Neil said, you might find that 1000 grit isn't low enough if your knife is a bit beaten up. If it's in good shape then it'd be...

There's some good advice above, but something quite important that no one's mentioned is this...

What you describe initially isn't correct, because you need to think about it differently than...

Did you have any luck on your plane blade with this one btw...? I finished a Japanese plane blade on a local SA slate a little while back and it was very good. So I imagine your German one would be...

With the caveat that my experience is mostly of sharpening Japanese kitchen knives, not razors or tools... the inside of a cereal box is an *excellent* thing to strop on. Most of the best knife...

Haha, no not all! I find it all quite interesting, and had never really thought about how my idea of it might differ from other people's. I really use the word basically like 'stropping', but I don't...

That certainly does sound like super fine finishing with those compounds! I don't sharpen razors myself but have read quite a few people say they often finish on this kind of stone, or Welsh slates...

Ah nice! Would be very keen to hear your thoughts.

As I say I've never used one, but from what I've read about this kind of thing, and from using other slates - it should be in the 8-12k range....

Yep... thinking about the term properly - I think I probably use it in a way that's different to a lot of people, probably because I'm far more used to Japanese knives than western knives. I'd tend...

Ah I must've got mixed up about the honing steel thing, I always thought they were slightly softer, though like you I don't really have much experience (and clearly less knowledge!). It makes sense...

Oops, sorry! I didn't read this properly last night before typing out basically exactly the same thing, but less succinctly. But yes - that's basically how I would use the term too.

I think the...

To demonstrate... people often think of fine Arkansas as honing stones because they're so hard. But actually novaculite (metamorphosed quartz) does cut, if only a little bit. Here's swarf from a...

'Honing' certainly seems to be a term that seems to get used quite widely and often arbitrarily. But the way I understand is it the following... Honing is done on something that is less hard than...

(Oh and - I'm sure you've found this out in the intervening years, but just in case - I think they're normally meant to be around 10k, give or take a few k either side. It'd be better if you can get...

Sorry to revive a very old thread here, but it just caught my eye as I was reading through things on the forum. As I've been experimenting using Willunga slates for sharpening and have developed a...

These are fascinating reading!

& I'd certainly agree that one shouldn't dismiss the likes of King or Naniwa. I have a similar no. of stones (also probably about half and half), and the one I use...

Haha! I (used to) spend quite a lot of time in Spain, though tbh my Spanish is not as good as it should be.

Thanks for the pointer, I've noticed that there are indeed many years of posts on all...

Cheers!

Yeah if you use very hot water with a dishwasher tablet, leave for a couple of hours, then maybe a further hour in clean water. You should get a very clean stone. I just re-read your...

Berea Sandstone, I think. Very cool find!

Pretty much any oilstone can be used with either oil or water (ideally water with a bit of soap), but if you want to use water you'd need to clean it...

Cheers! Certainly looking forward to learning more from people here :)

It'd probably get a bit repetitive if I posted too much of what I do mostly, but I was quite pleased with these two this...

Hi all,

I'm a Londoner now living in the Adelaide Hills. Outside of my immediate (somewhat niche) area of knowledge - making custom handles for Japanese kitchen knives - I have very little...