Sharpening Wood Carving Knife - Cheap and Easy
HTML-код
- Опубликовано: 2 апр 2019
- How sharp are Your wood carving tools? This video will show You how to sharpen Your wood carving knife with sandpapers. It is easy and cheap method.
I believe that sharpening the wood carving knife with sandpapers it the quickest and easiest method. It is also cheap and therefore accessible for beginning wood carvers.
Whittling knife and sandpapers will cost only few dollars and we can fully enjoy whittling and carving.
Hope this helps to someone and come to mother Nature for some peace in mind. :-)
Your VladimirM
![TRASH or PASS! Eminem ( Houdini ) [REACTION!!!]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/cB1WrZcMwMc/mqdefault.jpg)
My dad was really good at sharpening knives. He always wanted to teach me, but I did not listen. Now my dad is gone, I wish I would have learned this skill from him. He could make a knife scary sharp. I tell people if you are learning to carve, learn to sharpen and maintain your knife as you go. Thanks for helping people. I really like your whale!
Having declared my dissatisfaction with this sharpener last night ruclips.net/user/postUgkxDcr-y2Pf6xdnrFHrSP7dl9kpKaCozcSQ I thought about the problem some more. It occurred to me that I might be undoing each attempt at achieving a sharp edge by the repeated attempts. So, I tried to clean up the unsatisfactory result by honing with only positions 3 and 4.Miracle!! A really nicely sharpened chef's knife, more than enough to handle my needs. Admittedly, it did not reach professionally sharpened razor-fineness, but it is now significantly sharper than it was. A bout of breaking down carrots convinced me. So, major apologies to the manufacturer, Amazon, and all happy and potential owners! Follow the directions: don't buy it if you have ceramic blades; and don't overwork your knife blade.
what a down to earth guy, thank you.. im in a bit of a pickle with wanting to start whittling with little money
Thank you, for the demonstration on sharping the knife. I just started basic wood cuts,but never taught how to sharpen knife properly.
I am glad it helped. Keep carving mate :)
Hi Vladimir, these days I only keep a small ceramic stone near me & when I feel my knife is dulling, I just gently give it a back & forth on the stone & it’s scary sharp again. 😁
Love the vibe! Loving nature and what it gives us.
Thank you for sharing your knowledge, from the UK.
Glad it was helpful!
Nice trick. I've used the sandpaper "Scary Sharp" system for my plane irons and woodworking chisels for years. Will have to try it for my carving/whittling knives.
Thank you for balancing me. Nature is beautiful.
It really is!
Glad I found u
Thanks from New Zealand
cheers mate. I miss the country :-)
Great video! Thanks.
I really appreciate it mate. :-) there is new video right now about how to carve an Eagle head if you are not subscribed. Maybe that helps :-)
Thanks Vladimir
I appreciate this video. Thank you for the help, and I also appreciate your reminder to be out in nature. It is very grounding and I haven’t been out much. It’s hard when it gets darker cause of daylight savings (;
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you so much this is exactly what I needed to know to sharpen my carving tools 😁😘
Great job on the video AND the teaching.....Keep up the good work, and the best to you.
Thanks Mark. I am glad it helps.
I learned something. Thanks.
Glad to hear it!
Great info..Thanks
You are welcome azurevieus
I just started whittling and your videos are awesome ! I just subscribed...please keep making videos
Awesome! Thank you!
Very good video simple and easy thanks
Thanks mate. :-)
Thanks for sharing knowledge.
My pleasure
thanks you for this video sure help someone like me that is self teaching
Happy to help
Good DIY and saving $$$$$
Thanks for helping me. I'll be finishing 1 gouge and 4 tiny knives today and will be checking out my about carving I'm building 1.5 up to 2 inches assortment of blades so I need more learning.
Just got the other equipment for sharpening even 1 X 30 belt grinder and
2 X 72 yeah I'm in gear to carving.
Parádní video, nemůžu se ubránit pocitu, že jsi od nás z Čech 😉
Zdravim z cech do cech. ;-) dekuju
Thank you!
Liked the introduction, pointing to nature as a healer, nice ! I would suggest not starting with 220 unless the edge is really bad and damaged, and a some soap/dishwashing liquid in the water.
Very nice video except and except for one comment I wouldn't change a thing. I like the way that you have the sandpaper pre-glued to your MBF. Makes it very handy for multiple or future sharpening. However, I couldn't help but wonder why you pulled the blade towards you instead of away from you as you did with the strop. The whole idea is to develop a new wire edge and in pulling it toward you you're not obtaining that gold. I believe that if you pulled the blade away from you you'd have ended up with even a sharper edge than you did.
Thanks for the constructive comment. I really love these :-) I believe and also from my experience is this version ok for total beginners who don't want to play around with the burr. You are right that the blade is sharper while pulling the spine direction on the paper though.
This is actually a very good instructional sharpening video. The techniques described are correct!!! I personally would use less grit progressions but that's a personal decision (400 to 600 to 1000 then strop) I would do a crossgrain pushcut slice, turn the wood and do a pull cut over the same area to check both sides of the blade for any burrs and shiny surface. ATB.
Thanks for the constructive comment. I love it! Is 1000 grit enough for you?
What happened to me quite often was that the blade chipped (got dints and nicks) when I carved harder types of wood than basswood(limewood). Seems like the blade is too thin for some timber after this scary sharp method :-) so sometimes I shape a tiny V at the very edge of the blade and it quite helps. Do You have any other trick for this? cheers Vladimir
@@HomeWoodSpirit Hi To be quite honest, I don't like any bevel on the blades of whittling knives and again to be honest I only use a piece of 600 grit on the back of my strop to remove small chips in a stropping motion. If that doesn't clean the apex I would go down to 400 then 600 which is plenty fine enough for me plus a good stropping to polish. Cutting harder woods than Basswood with such a fine edge WILL chip!!! that's where a beveled knife will be stronger at its apex. ATB.
@@peteswright good on you! I like how everybody has slightly different techniques which we can share and learn. thank You for that!
I carved a lot of harder woods like B Walnut, Apple and Mountain Laurel. I also have some Holly, Pear and Plum drying out.
Great job my friend. very informative and helpful. keep up the good work on your channel.
Much appreciated!
Very Nice instructions, I use basically the same way. Except I went to my local glass shop and he cut 6mm thick glass for me, I told him what I was doing with it and he recommended this glass, works perfectly ,you can see what the Grit is thru the glass ,it's tough I have dropped it with no breakage and is waterproof and perfectly flat.
I really appreciate it mate. :-) there is new video right now about how to carve an Eagle head if you are not subscribed. Maybe that helps :-)
05:10 As a knife lover I almost got a heart attack
Hello sir, thank you for this video, it was very useful and well explained. Have a great day
good luck and thanks for watching
Very good 👍
Thank you
you are welcome... ;-)
God's creation is so much better than man's creation.
I resonate with this :-)
Muy bueno thanks 👍
good work will done
glad it helped
👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
I do the same, but with a cheap set of diamond hones from ebay :) Same method, though
Thanks for sharing!
👍👍👍
Vladimir. I would also like to know what thickness of leather you would recommend for a strop? It seems to be rated with numbers like 2,3,4... I think each one is 1/64” of an inch. I assume you would want one about 1/32” thick or a number 2, so the blade does not roll due to sinking into the leather and thus round over the blade and dull it instead of becoming sharper. Thank you for sharing your sharpening techniques for the beginner carvers like myself. 🙏👍✅
Hi and thanks for the question. I would go with leather up to max 3 millimeters. The important thing in my opinion is that the leather is hard so the blade doesn't "sink in" but rather slide nicely over flat surface. I also use green buffing(polishing) compound on the leather. Hope that helps.
The numbers are ounces (oz), you can find tables how to transfer oz to mm online. My paddle strop has ~2mm thick leather and it works just fine. 1 oz leather would probably be a bit too supple to comfortably work with.
As for rolling the blade - look at the old style hanging strops. These things can not possibly be totally flat, but they're good enough for stroping a straight razor. You actually want the slightest convex to work away the burr effectively. At the same time the grit of the polishing compound and time you typically spend on stroping are not nearly enough to do any real damage to the blade's surface.
You'll also want to look for veg tan leather, not oil or chrome tanned.
uncle Lem Thank you very much for your advice UL!
Home Wood Spirit Thank you Vladimir!
Ahoj, mám dvě otázky, kde si koupil ty brusící papíry a kde kupuješ v česku dřevo? Děkuji moc.
Ahoj. Idealne v zelezarstvi. Jsou to papiry na zelezo. Drevo z internetu nebo od technickejch a pak s tim na pilu a uskladnit. Nebo najdi lokalniho rezbare a on ti poradi. :-)
THIS A NATURE SHOW OR LEARNING HOW TO SHARPEN KINVES?
Hi please can you tell which carving knife is it your using. Is it a KM14 Flexcut carving knife.
Your video's a brilliant. Thank you
Hi. Thank you. :) it is KN13 detailed knife.
I think I have that same knife. I didn't really know about stropping for maintenance and took it to the stone after a couple of days. It is now extremely dull. I had read that you should never use a stone on these but I'm not sure why people say that. It seems like my angle was probably way too high. I might go back and attempt to use this very low angle instead.
bub you dont take a carving knife to a stome. if its got knicks in it, 600-1200 sandpaper will clean it up then strop. look up doug linker and go to his sharpening videos. shouldnt need more than a strop and buffing compound for a new knife or one thats not been abused
So much work! Why not try a leather strop?
strop is at the end of the video...
Thanks! When the sand paper wears out do you have to cut a brand new mdf board?
Nono. I have figure out faster solution now. No need to glue it.. just lay it on flat mdf.. ;-)
Utility kniiiife
Rough or smooth side of leather?
I was wondering about that as well;)
rough so the polishing compound can stick to it. good question :D
@@HomeWoodSpirit Sorry for late posting, but whatever. I personally prefer to put leather smooth side on top and then rough it up with some sandpaper. Top layer of leather has much more tight and homogeneous grain, so I believe it works better.
(Disclaimer: I have not sharpened any whittling knives yet, but I used various strops to strop my straight razors and occasionally knives)
Thanks for showing us. im the same i like to get out in nature, its our natural environment that we were made for ,soon when god steps in to this worlds affairs as promised, those who survive will enjoy everlasting life on a cleansed new earth Psalms 37 verses 10 and 11 and also verse 29 .see we live on earth not heaven ,and the works of our hands will be used to the full with lots of projects Isaiah 65 verses 17 to 25 .
When the bevel is facing you stroke the knife away from you
a sharp knife is important but it is also important that the tree is not a dry soft tree
the combination of good basswood and sharp knife is priceless
That's one way to ware out your blade I would never treat a blade like that .
Привет из Москвы!
Hi from Prague! :D
👍🙉🙈🙊☕️
TY
Woodglut is a good solution for every woodworker.
Woodprix comes with very useful plans with all the details you need.
Only the Lord Jesus Christ will give you true and lasting peace. God bless.
As there appears to be no information about sharpening knives here I am out.