@@balaketheyoungin2076 then, it's pretty much worthless unless kept in a survival pack for a potential emergency. You shouldn't rely on something like that for regular knife maintenance. Maintain your knives beforehand.
I got the worksharp sharpener back in 2019 and it's still going strong. It's not the best out there but it does the job and gives you the satisfaction of sharpening by hand
Thanks. I was looking at that very sharpening device in the store the other day and now I see a legit endorsement for it. Handy when the world answers a question almost before I can ask.
Thanks man I always used ceramic to sharpen our knives at work but only if they already have a set edge. I just bought a strop so it will be interesting to see how well I can do it. Thanks
I own this and it’s AMAZING! I can not tell you how many times I’ve sharpened a knife to razor sharp while skinning a deer and it’s crazy awesome Highly recommend this product
I like this Worksharp and their products I would buy a second field sharpener and I got two of the freehand pivot-response system and the precision is only for difficult knives like recurves and mirror polishing..dope stuff, still learning..
As always you're on the mark. I have 2 x different diameter/size handheld ceramic rods just to accommodate different sized knives. Weren't expensive. I tend to hone my fixed blades more than the folders - mainly due to different types of use. Like stropping a few runs over the rod on each side and you should be good. I don't have any 'super steels' so I'm not sure how effective ceramic rods are on them, but for most user steels (1095, D2, VG10, 154Cm, etc...) no problems. Take care when using standalone honing rods best to run the blade away from you as blades can slip off the rod suddenly & don't use excessive pressure. Sharp steel everyone!
I have that sharpener and it's fantastic. Been sharpening for years but never used a strop before I got this and it totally takes edges to another level. Great tool, and cheap especially for everything included in one tool 👍
I have already purchased the worksharp field sharpener . They already have my payment for a week . Have no idea what they're waiting on . So I'm just waiting patiently for the company to get off their backsides and send it to Amazon . Can't wait to finally get my hands on it and try it out .
I've had that same sharpener for months. Outstanding. Love the angle guides. The removable diamond plates are cool to clean them without wetting the whole thing. I did just get a piece of leather and used spray adhesive on a piece of old 2x4 for a full sized strop. Works alot better since the sharpener systems strop is so small. But it still works well.
I keep one of those Worksharp sharpeners in my outdoor bags, whether I'm hiking, hunting, fishing, or camping. It's such an impressive little tool and can even sharpen my larger field knives with a little extra work! Never used the broadhead wrench part of it but I really like how they included that in it's body. Overall, it's a very well designed tool!
Great piece of kit, i love my little Work Sharpener, perfect for on the go touch-up's :). Thanks for the content bro, you n the wife are a bright light in the community.
@@AcidxAnarchyThe tops of car windows work too. Used it at work to take most of a roll/chip out of a blade I accidentally made contact on a dumpster with.
I ended up getting 4 of those Worksharp sharpeners back a few years ago after buying my first because they WORK. They work great for the average pocket knife and average size hunting knives/camp knife with blade up to around 5 to 6 inches perhaps (and still be comfortable); at least when making sharpening pulls the way I do. If anyone is a serious survivalist sportsman, they need one of these.
I would not call this “honing” this is sharpening, but it’s very fine sharpening. Honing, as I learned, is the straightening of a warped feather edge. It doesn’t remove material which this certainly does
Stropping removes the "wire" curl from the sharp edge of the knife as well as slightly rounding a "shoulder " at the back edge of the bevel to strengthen the cutting edge.
I don't teach to remove burr with strop as it's nor efficient, a burr shouldn't be ripped off it should be fatigued until it naturally falls off or minimized. Either way is done on a stone preferably a ultra fine stone without changing the scratch pattern then strop comes after to clean between the micro serrations
Stropping vs honing: Strop uses a softer medium so that the apex can be sanded down gently enough to not vend the metal over into a burr, but used too much and it can over angle the apex until it's pretty much rounded, same with a full knife, unless it's very thin geometry and held at a perfect angle like a striggt razor, you can rarely properly sharpen on one, honing offers to re-flatten the apex away from being rounded but flexes the tip and leaves a foil of excess metal on the edge from being harder than the steel and the very apex being pretty flexible and it bends when it gets too thin, the strop fixes this by sanding it off to a pure apex.
@@NeevesKnives i’m so glad you responded because I actually wanted to DM you on IG about this. I need to order another couple but I got a 320, 600, dual sided 800/1200(but I don’t think I can use it without adjusting angles) then 2000, and 5000 plus a kangaroo strop. I sharpened my already beat AF BRSevolve fragment (s30v), and even more beat ZT0450 which already had its grind ruined by a novice worker at a literal tool sharpening business. This was before I got the work sharp.
@@TheAdequateMedia you will definitely have to change angles, get a digital angle finder with a magnetic bottom. You can just try and match the grit pattern if not
I always considered stripping and honing to be largely interchangeable. Honing giving you a less refined edge, but doing it faster and more aggressively than stropping. But go with whatever works for you.
As long as your knife is razor sharp to start with and you strop your knife for every hour of use you don't need a stone or anything like that So for me that's stropping because i do woodcarving, i need them as sharp and quick as possible and stropping only takes around 2 minutes every 1 hour
That exact yellow sharpener is a game changer for me. I do auto glass and have to sharpen my tools a few times a day and this is perfect for that. I take it home about once a month and resharpen all my knifes at the house.
Great information,Jared! Thanks to your teachings I'm feeling better about buying nicer knives. I've got a mounted strop in my cart. I'm going to add the WorkSharp field sharpener, too. 👍👍
For those who don't want to spend a lot of money, Work Sharp really gives you a great bang for your buck, I use a KME now but I love my Work Sharp guided system, genuinely a great brand.
Great product and I make natural marble Sharpening Stones, I have been able to restore the razor edge to razors fairly easily and get a razor edge on most of my knives very easily using the marble Sharpening Stone last or second from last in my Sharpening process. The use of the marble also has consistently had the result of a longer lasting edge. It is only about a ten to thirty percent improvement over the lifespan of the edge but it is still better than not using it. You can also improve the lifespan of any edges by adding either ceramic or granite to help the process. The way the process works is the softer marble has pices shaved off the stone just large enough to fit into the some of the gaps in the teeth of the blade. Then once you use either the ceramic or granite it will do two things one it will push the small pieces of stone into the gaps and two it will produce just enough heat to melt a very small amount of the stone and make it harder for the microscopic teeth break off. It is not something that always works or in the same way but when it does you can create an ultra thin and long lasting glass like blade edge.
I definitely second that recommend on the "Field Sharpener". It's absolutely the best mobile or "in between a full sharpening" shapener out there.. and for those archery people out there.. it's even got chucks under the diamond plates to screw/unscrew arrow heads. It's well thought out.
Get a worksharp precision for under 60 bucks and you will have a blast sharpening your knives. It’s great for beginners I had mirror edges in my knives in no time.
If stropping isn't working, try CBN spray or heavy concentrate diamond spray. Green Chromium oxide polishing compound is great and cheap. And It's still my go to for most of my knife maintenance. But if you want to save time and or be able to restore an edge, then you can't beat CBN and diamond spray. They really will get you the most out of your leather strop.
There must be more to this because I have definitely gone from 800- 1200 grit diamond to the strop and seen a progression in sharpness. In fact, when I’m done with the diamond plate I often test the knife and if I want to slice through paper towel, I have to spend some time stropping. I have quite a bit to learn so I’m sure there is a valid point he is making, but don’t get it because stropping seems to increase sharpness without first honing.
Any idea on how to soften a strop? .I have a barber strop with the long leather and some white strop that I have no idea what it is. Do you know what it could be?
Maybe in a overly simplified way this is true but stropping and honing serve different functions. Stropping is used to pull the bur off of the edge of the blade after sharpening and honing is used to smooth the blades surface and can be used indicate when there are larger imperfections that require sharpening the blade again
Honing is also used as burr removal, micro bevels, tuningband maintenance exc.. and yes of course this is over simplified, it's only 60 seconds though, I have my Sharpening playlist full of Sharpening videos, and lives teaching Sharpening. But Honing can be used for many things in Sharpening and techniques. I try to do my best to get as much information into a 60 second clip as possible hoping people will watch full videos if interested. Thanks for commenting 👍
By the way: The steel whetting rods are for straighten up your fine but bent edge. So you don't have to hone or sharpen it away, saving material and time.
I actually have that sharpener. Was surprised to see it in the video. Personally I think it’s the perfect all in one. The size of the plates is are just long enough. You can take the plates off and inside there is inserts for broad heads. And the 20° angles really helps if your just learning.
I have that. I use it mainly for multi-tool at the moment but its great. You know your blade is sharp when you just have to lightly press the tip on tape to cut it lol.
recently grabbed one of the WS Field Sharpeners and after watching many YT videos on it cause I’m totally inexperienced.. I still am wondering wtf “stroping” even is 🤷🏽♂️
There are stropping compounds that actually remove metal. (More so than honing, especially with a metal rod but also a ceramic). Buy some compound. I suggest Borachrome.
Daniel, I have everything under the sun. Remember this is only a 60sec clip, but I personally don't recommend metal honing rods, ceramic is far far better. And of course there's stropping compounds that remove metal, if you actually need to remove so much metal then just re sharpen. But it depends on the knife, situation and application
I've gone through about 5 of those work sharp field sharpeners and they're the best for on the go sharpening, I literally take it everywhere
If you went through 5 of them, I doubt they are reliable on the long run.
@@Poodleinacan they're portable knife sharpeners, they're not meant to be for the long run. They're just meant for a few trips
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@@balaketheyoungin2076 then, it's pretty much worthless unless kept in a survival pack for a potential emergency.
You shouldn't rely on something like that for regular knife maintenance. Maintain your knives beforehand.
@@Poodleinacan obviously not worthless to him and plenty others.
I got the worksharp sharpener back in 2019 and it's still going strong. It's not the best out there but it does the job and gives you the satisfaction of sharpening by hand
A strop on lol, no kidding though I’ve learned a lot of stuff from you. Many thanks 🙏🏻
I love that sharpener. Stays with me at all times.
Thanks. I was looking at that very sharpening device in the store the other day and now I see a legit endorsement for it. Handy when the world answers a question almost before I can ask.
I have one of those porcelain honing rods, and it's AWESOME! I can't imagine ever going back to using the metal ones.
Thanks man I always used ceramic to sharpen our knives at work but only if they already have a set edge. I just bought a strop so it will be interesting to see how well I can do it. Thanks
I own this and it’s AMAZING! I can not tell you how many times I’ve sharpened a knife to razor sharp while skinning a deer and it’s crazy awesome Highly recommend this product
I like this Worksharp and their products I would buy a second field sharpener and I got two of the freehand pivot-response system and the precision is only for difficult knives like recurves and mirror polishing..dope stuff, still learning..
As always you're on the mark. I have 2 x different diameter/size handheld ceramic rods just to accommodate different sized knives. Weren't expensive. I tend to hone my fixed blades more than the folders - mainly due to different types of use. Like stropping a few runs over the rod on each side and you should be good. I don't have any 'super steels' so I'm not sure how effective ceramic rods are on them, but for most user steels (1095, D2, VG10, 154Cm, etc...) no problems. Take care when using standalone honing rods best to run the blade away from you as blades can slip off the rod suddenly & don't use excessive pressure. Sharp steel everyone!
I have that sharpener and it's fantastic. Been sharpening for years but never used a strop before I got this and it totally takes edges to another level. Great tool, and cheap especially for everything included in one tool 👍
I have already purchased the worksharp field sharpener . They already have my payment for a week . Have no idea what they're waiting on . So I'm just waiting patiently for the company to get off their backsides and send it to Amazon . Can't wait to finally get my hands on it and try it out .
How u make out?
I've had that same sharpener for months. Outstanding. Love the angle guides. The removable diamond plates are cool to clean them without wetting the whole thing. I did just get a piece of leather and used spray adhesive on a piece of old 2x4 for a full sized strop. Works alot better since the sharpener systems strop is so small. But it still works well.
Yeah I usually use a different Strop myself but it's still a great backup in the field
I keep one of those Worksharp sharpeners in my outdoor bags, whether I'm hiking, hunting, fishing, or camping. It's such an impressive little tool and can even sharpen my larger field knives with a little extra work! Never used the broadhead wrench part of it but I really like how they included that in it's body. Overall, it's a very well designed tool!
Great piece of kit, i love my little Work Sharpener, perfect for on the go touch-up's :). Thanks for the content bro, you n the wife are a bright light in the community.
Thank you, will purchase it when I can
I have the same field sharpener and use it constantly.Its a very effective little portable knife maintenance tool.
Thanks Jerad. Needed this advice. Stropped my mini bugout this morning and it only helped a tiny bit, but not enough.
I’ve got three of those. I love them. One in the truck. One in my hunting pack. And one in the garage.
I use my work sharp field sharpener all the time. It's a awesome sharpening system
That’s the best bang for the buck sharpener on the market!
If times are tough you can always use the under side of a mug , the rough rim bit ,I use that and i still get an amazing edge
I’ve done this while at work from cutting to much cardboard wanted to sharpen the knife so I found a coffee mug and got it back to razor sharp again
Yup
Thanks. I was just trying to think of what kind of household stuff I could use, haha.
@@AcidxAnarchyThe tops of car windows work too. Used it at work to take most of a roll/chip out of a blade I accidentally made contact on a dumpster with.
Edge of an open car window…
I have that exact sharpener and their bench model as well and they works great. The field sharpener fits great in your backpack
My wife got the one with the strop on. Big suprise for me 😮
I'm glad I'm not the only one this has happened to 😳
I've had one for years yes that sharpener works awesome
I ended up getting 4 of those Worksharp sharpeners back a few years ago after buying my first because they WORK.
They work great for the average pocket knife and average size hunting knives/camp knife with blade up to around 5 to 6 inches perhaps (and still be comfortable); at least when making sharpening pulls the way I do.
If anyone is a serious survivalist sportsman, they need one of these.
Have one and love it! Its not split hairs sharp but can zig zag paper like you like to show!
Nice!!
I love how sharp my Civivi gets! I love these knives as an inexpensive EDC.
I agree , look out for Qsp knives they are really cool and inexpensive too and in the same category as civivi !!
I’ve just been throwing my knives away when they get dull😢. Learn something new everyday I guess. Thanks J. 😁
how are there not more likes and comments on this video? great tips and great sound quality.
I would not call this “honing” this is sharpening, but it’s very fine sharpening. Honing, as I learned, is the straightening of a warped feather edge. It doesn’t remove material which this certainly does
Just got that knife in the mail today! Love it!
I got me the Work Sharp, great advise from Jerad. It is always in my bag. Very light and so easy to use.
The feild sharpener is awesome 👌
I have the benchmade version it’s 40 bucks and love it
Stropping removes the "wire" curl from the sharp edge of the knife as well as slightly rounding a "shoulder " at the back edge of the bevel to strengthen the cutting edge.
I don't teach to remove burr with strop as it's nor efficient, a burr shouldn't be ripped off it should be fatigued until it naturally falls off or minimized. Either way is done on a stone preferably a ultra fine stone without changing the scratch pattern then strop comes after to clean between the micro serrations
Stropping vs honing:
Strop uses a softer medium so that the apex can be sanded down gently enough to not vend the metal over into a burr, but used too much and it can over angle the apex until it's pretty much rounded, same with a full knife, unless it's very thin geometry and held at a perfect angle like a striggt razor, you can rarely properly sharpen on one, honing offers to re-flatten the apex away from being rounded but flexes the tip and leaves a foil of excess metal on the edge from being harder than the steel and the very apex being pretty flexible and it bends when it gets too thin, the strop fixes this by sanding it off to a pure apex.
I’m glad I got the gripomatic plate holder for my worksharp
Which stones did you get?
@@NeevesKnives i’m so glad you responded because I actually wanted to DM you on IG about this.
I need to order another couple but I got a 320, 600, dual sided 800/1200(but I don’t think I can use it without adjusting angles) then 2000, and 5000 plus a kangaroo strop.
I sharpened my already beat AF BRSevolve fragment (s30v), and even more beat ZT0450 which already had its grind ruined by a novice worker at a literal tool sharpening business.
This was before I got the work sharp.
@@TheAdequateMedia you will definitely have to change angles, get a digital angle finder with a magnetic bottom. You can just try and match the grit pattern if not
@@NeevesKnives are the stones meant to be utilized with water? Or are they fine dry. I’m truly tempted to just take up freehanding
I always considered stripping and honing to be largely interchangeable. Honing giving you a less refined edge, but doing it faster and more aggressively than stropping. But go with whatever works for you.
As long as your knife is razor sharp to start with and you strop your knife for every hour of use you don't need a stone or anything like that So for me that's stropping because i do woodcarving, i need them as sharp and quick as possible and stropping only takes around 2 minutes every 1 hour
Just put one of those field sharpeners in my basket 👌🏼 great bit of kit
👊
You give great information, thank you.
I have the worksharp field sharpener in the video and it really is fantastic...its an engineering marvel if you ask me.
I have that sharpener and love it. I just got the ruixin pro an it puts a pretty edge on my knifes but it's a diffrent kind of sharp.
I have one and use it on just about everything. It's lasted a long time, too. Best $25 I ever spent.
That exact yellow sharpener is a game changer for me. I do auto glass and have to sharpen my tools a few times a day and this is perfect for that. I take it home about once a month and resharpen all my knifes at the house.
Sweet! Yeah it's great
Those worksharp sharpeners are the best
I was looking for a small sharpening thingy, this helped
I use white diomond jewelry polish on my leather an it will cut hair .I'm not good at sharpening but the white diomond really make the difference
It also has a brodhead removal tool built into the handle and a spot on the ceramic rod to sharpen fishing hooks
Yes someone knows this system
@@NeevesKnives the company I work for is partnerd with worksharp.. you may have heard of them it's a small company called benchmade 😆 🤣
this little worksharp kit is so good for the price, its clearly the best affordable tool for sharpening
Good little piece of equipment for sharpening, especially when your out and about or often on the go ✅😎✅
I hone with the Spyderco SharpMaker, super easy.
Great information,Jared! Thanks to your teachings I'm feeling better about buying nicer knives. I've got a mounted strop in my cart. I'm going to add the WorkSharp field sharpener, too. 👍👍
Love my Civivi Praxis! Same color. Just needs a better deep pocket clip. Bent too easily.
What knife is that? Thanks in advance
For those who don't want to spend a lot of money, Work Sharp really gives you a great bang for your buck, I use a KME now but I love my Work Sharp guided system, genuinely a great brand.
Great product and I make natural marble Sharpening Stones, I have been able to restore the razor edge to razors fairly easily and get a razor edge on most of my knives very easily using the marble Sharpening Stone last or second from last in my Sharpening process. The use of the marble also has consistently had the result of a longer lasting edge. It is only about a ten to thirty percent improvement over the lifespan of the edge but it is still better than not using it. You can also improve the lifespan of any edges by adding either ceramic or granite to help the process. The way the process works is the softer marble has pices shaved off the stone just large enough to fit into the some of the gaps in the teeth of the blade. Then once you use either the ceramic or granite it will do two things one it will push the small pieces of stone into the gaps and two it will produce just enough heat to melt a very small amount of the stone and make it harder for the microscopic teeth break off. It is not something that always works or in the same way but when it does you can create an ultra thin and long lasting glass like blade edge.
The point being her an apex with a wire edge on one side, then work up in grit to 2k grit. Most stropping compounds are between 5-10k grit.
I definitely second that recommend on the "Field Sharpener". It's absolutely the best mobile or "in between a full sharpening" shapener out there.. and for those archery people out there.. it's even got chucks under the diamond plates to screw/unscrew arrow heads. It's well thought out.
Get a worksharp precision for under 60 bucks and you will have a blast sharpening your knives. It’s great for beginners I had mirror edges in my knives in no time.
That tool looks very cool
Got one Awesome sharpener
Love my worksharp!
Very informative. Thank you
This was exactly the information I needed. I'm now going to sharpen all of my metal objects to a razor
👊
Off subject, what do you use for recurved blades? I use a KME and that’s near impossible
i wish they made the praxis in nitro v or 14c28n
My mom always uses another knife to sharpen her knives, works amazingly
Awesome tip as always
Those work sharp removable diamond pads are the absolute best sharpeners I’ve ever come across in my life hands-down
If stropping isn't working, try CBN spray or heavy concentrate diamond spray.
Green Chromium oxide polishing compound is great and cheap.
And It's still my go to for most of my knife maintenance.
But if you want to save time and or be able to restore an edge, then you can't beat CBN and diamond spray.
They really will get you the most out of your leather strop.
There must be more to this because I have definitely gone from 800- 1200 grit diamond to the strop and seen a progression in sharpness. In fact, when I’m done with the diamond plate I often test the knife and if I want to slice through paper towel, I have to spend some time stropping. I have quite a bit to learn so I’m sure there is a valid point he is making, but don’t get it because stropping seems to increase sharpness without first honing.
Absolutely love mine
What is the angle for the Work Sharp field sharpener.......
Any idea on how to soften a strop?
.I have a barber strop with the long leather and some white strop that I have no idea what it is. Do you know what it could be?
Where's the link
Can’t find the link, Tks
That turned into an ad real quick. Lol
Even his voice and tempo change suddenly 🤣
@@EvilNick81 The only thing missing was, it's only 19.95. Get yours today.
@@tlw2585 …while supplies last.
@@eyespy3001
But wait! There’s more!
Yeah bro I felt that and was looking for this comment..
Honing is for aligning and straightening.
A rubber eraser is a really handy accessory to the Worksharp. Especially for the ceramic rod.
Yes I have many rust erasers as well they work great
Ótima afiação 🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷
You might want to explain what honing does & why stropping can’t correct an edge that is out of line.
Thank you 😊
The sharpening Guru always the best advice ! ☺
Maybe in a overly simplified way this is true but stropping and honing serve different functions. Stropping is used to pull the bur off of the edge of the blade after sharpening and honing is used to smooth the blades surface and can be used indicate when there are larger imperfections that require sharpening the blade again
Honing is also used as burr removal, micro bevels, tuningband maintenance exc.. and yes of course this is over simplified, it's only 60 seconds though, I have my Sharpening playlist full of Sharpening videos, and lives teaching Sharpening. But Honing can be used for many things in Sharpening and techniques. I try to do my best to get as much information into a 60 second clip as possible hoping people will watch full videos if interested. Thanks for commenting 👍
@@NeevesKnives thanks for the reply I should have remembered this is just a 60 second video. I’ll check your other work out
Use compound on the strop if you have a modern supersteel
My dad has that sharpener and he loves it, he's been thru countless before it
Could anyone explain to me why kitchen knives instead never get stropped? Like, what exactly is the difference in terms of blade between these knives?
By the way:
The steel whetting rods are for straighten up your fine but bent edge. So you don't have to hone or sharpen it away, saving material and time.
What do you make of the new buck of the month knife for march
Love WorkShop
Field sharpener is the biz
I use a dual grit round ouck sharpener. Scalpel sharp EVERYTIME
Puck not ouck
Are there any drawbacks with an all in one like the worksharp field sharpener? Space constraint or anything?
I actually have that sharpener. Was surprised to see it in the video. Personally I think it’s the perfect all in one. The size of the plates is are just long enough. You can take the plates off and inside there is inserts for broad heads. And the 20° angles really helps if your just learning.
@@nineinchrails3361 ive been sharpening on a 2-sided India stone for years, but getting into some new steels, exploring new techniques, etc.
I have that. I use it mainly for multi-tool at the moment but its great.
You know your blade is sharp when you just have to lightly press the tip on tape to cut it lol.
Where's the link?
OR, my favourite, a ceramic coffee mug.
recently grabbed one of the WS Field Sharpeners and after watching many YT videos on it cause I’m totally inexperienced.. I still am wondering wtf “stroping” even is 🤷🏽♂️
There are stropping compounds that actually remove metal. (More so than honing, especially with a metal rod but also a ceramic). Buy some compound. I suggest Borachrome.
Daniel, I have everything under the sun. Remember this is only a 60sec clip, but I personally don't recommend metal honing rods, ceramic is far far better. And of course there's stropping compounds that remove metal, if you actually need to remove so much metal then just re sharpen. But it depends on the knife, situation and application
The angles are set for you if that's the angle your knife is sharpened at.