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i try to stay out of antique stores, as I can get lost in them really easy! same stuff as you listed plus old pocket knives, tongs, hammers, pellet and bb guns, there is just so much to look for :}

that is a heck of a jump from a flea market stone to a trans ark. but if it worked for him and he liked it, then that is what he should have done and carried. i typically use one of my belt grinders for regrinds, but not everyone has a couple of those hanging around, and its the same process as with a stone so that is what I showed :}

​@@joecalton1449yes he had arkansas stones to do the full progression but did not use them, edge had tooth to say the least but blades were thinned and didn't have the full integrity of a new blade, and thats what took forever he didn't use all the tools he had in the toolbox, the transclucent just was a polisher on a crosscut saw edge, not the best in my opinion but it was what he knew and liked

Thank you very much!

you might wait till next weeks video, it goes over "laying the edge back" which is like halfway between just sharpening and doing a total regrind. then you can decide which way to go.

chickens are not near as fun as knives, but i was so impressed by the simple green and wood ash treatment on mites that i had to share it in the hopes of helping someone elses chicken and their tender out.

thank you for the kind words!

aw shucks, this should be old news for you as much time as you spend sharpening :}

i would be pumped also. i hear those are cool stones!

thank you for the kind words! yes the softer stones can plow the apex, but nothing cuts as agressively as a softer coarse stone besides power equipment. and a soft stone is usually way cheaper and easier to get into and use for most folks.

i dont think I have one of those. i do have the naniwas in i want to say 12k, 8k, and 6 or 5, and they are great stones, but they cost quite a bit more than the kings if i remember right. and this type of work is hard on stones, so might as well use either what you already have, or the most cost efficient stone you can get :}

lol! had I known that a $100 camera would have made me look that good, Id have bought it a long time ago!! :}

you are more than welcome, thanks for the visit!

thank you for watching!

the king stone is a 1000 grit on one side and a 6000 grit on the other. i think the best shave comes with what you shave with the most. my son gave me a very cool 1920's safety razor in a brass box for christmas. i put a new blade in and the first shave was horrible, lots of irritation, not very close, lots of missed spots. but I have not shaved with anything but a straight in 6 years or so. for me a straight it the choice not because it gets so close {although i do get pretty close with just with the grain passes}, but becuase it doesnt get plugged up as i only shave once or twice a week.

@@joecalton1449 Thanks mate!

that would be cool. I hear the 28 guage is a fun one!

your conclusions are about he same as mine. I have not spent much time cutting toilet paper or paper towels though.

i am not that great with the camera, I just point it and go and do the best I can :}

i think there is a field version that come parkerized green and with a sling. but my sportsmans warehouse didnt have any.

thanks erica! I was pretty excited about this one, the chickens say those mites are a pain in the tailfeathers and they are not sorry to see them go :}

Glad you enjoyed it :}

that is very cool! what do you do for the mites?

@@joecalton1449 my nephew gives me some stuff. I can't recall the name. I will get in touch with him and get the name of it and let you know

thank you for the kind words!

thank you!

they are a pretty good way to really target what what you want to catch.

like the candy toffee? a softer sticky type? thats a great idea!

@@joecalton1449 yeah the soft sticky stuff over here in scotland its butterscotch in colour tastes great and when need be good bait 👍

@@auldreekievaper5394 great, i will add it to my shopping list and try it out :}

i think so. it sure beats some alternatives

Glad you enjoyed it!

ive already worn out a blade in s30v and if I thought that thier s30v was worth carrying, then I would not have gone to the trouble to make one in 1095

@joecalton1449 , I mean there's always S90v, Magnacut, and M4. Idk how you worn out a S30V blade but bro that's insane or you're extremely hard on your knifes. Food for thought.

@@trevorthomas1030 i have 2 of them. i bought both before those other steels were offered i think. ive had the first for around 20 years, and the second for about 5 years less. the first 10 years i spent with them I was doing alot of house and mobile home rehabs and handyman type work. like 6-7 days a week, constantly working. drywall, roofing, painting, electical, windows, doors, carpet and flooring, you name it those knives have done it. that type of work at that pace wears knives out in a hurry and you really get to know a knife and steel. these last 10 years with them has been much slower and easier on those knives, but they still get thier workouts in. but I mostly make knives now and only do rehabs and handyman work occasionally.

ok, I will put that on my "to make" video list.

if it works for you, then i think it is a good thing. laying the edge back like that is a good method, you start off lower than you think you should go, then as you get used to it and the knife thickens back up from repeated sharpenings, then you find where you and the knife work best together.

thank you for the kind words! but it is time to get on to other things. i think I have a couple of chicken related videos next and then some diamond stone testing, and a regrind video and more on using the bras rod to find your perfect tempering temperature.

i have never worked with d2, but i have heard good things about it :}

@@joecalton1449 Don't dare let it get dull. It can be a beast to sharpen

I am glad to hear that you have enjoyed it. i do think I liked the shorter videos.

@joecalton1449 Have a great day Joe.

@@mannynieves493 thanks! you have a great one also!

thanks erica, i have been trying to do one a week for a long time. thats about as much as I can get done on a consistent basis. you are a total machine to make as many as often as you do! how is your new boss working out?

@@joecalton1449 I was slacking for a bit but I’m back on the grind now! My new boss is a bit of a hard ass and keeps me in the shop 10 hours a day! But she did mention that’s how the bills get paid🤪

Glad you liked it! for me, the simpler the better

@@dta7746 i dont. but it is the exact same process

thank you! yes, it seems like sharpening for the masses is going downhill. i walked into my local sprotsmans warehouse the other day, and they only had one or two diamond stones, and no regular stones at all.

the multiple quench is a heat treating method that I learned from my friend Ed Fowler. it can be a controversial method with some folks loving it and others not understanding it at all. the short version is that instead of heating your blade up for a single quench and then tempering, you repeat the quenching process several times before you temper. in most of the simpler high carbon steels, this acts to refine the grain and get a little more toughness and hardness. it really shines if you are heating with a torch or forge to even out the variables in heat, but it works very well with electric kilns also. I use it on 1095, 5160, 52100 and 1095 and 15n20 pattern welded steel. I have not seen a benefit in my 440c steel though.

@@joecalton1449 Thank you for your reply, I have never heard of that. Sounds like a ton of extra work too.

@@dmitryk754 its not all that bad, you already have the kiln or forge hot, so it just takes a couple extra steps.

@@joecalton1449 one day I should try, same temperatures all three times?

@@dmitryk754 yes

yes, power sharpening can be a rough thing for a knife. if you make knives for long enough, you will get wild stories like that. the best thing to do is just listen and see if you can get any more understanding about your steels and designs when it happens :}

thanks for watching!

i have not, but that is a good idea

thank you for the kind words. yes, I still carry one of my 940's everday unless im traveling or something out of the ordinary. I made new blades for both of them now though, one in 1095 and one in 440c. but the handles, locks and springs are still going strong.

@@joecalton1449 man that’s so cool. I’ve only had my 940 for about a year and half now so not nearly as long as u but I absolutely love it. It truly is a workhorse isn’t it. Hope my 940 stands the test of time as yours has. And the fact that u made ur own blades for it makes it that much cooler

@@rommelthedesertfox3089 thank you! I hope your 940 treats you as well as mine have treated me.

thanks for the kind words! first off I would say that if the entire spine of your knife is sharp enough to throw sparks off a ferro rod, then i would soften that spine up a bit with some sandpaper or the corner of a sharpening stone or something. on knives that I will use with a ferro rod, I will usually leave a small sharp corner on the ricasso, where it is out of the way. the globs of scraped ferro are hot, but there isnt enough of them in a small enough area to do your knife damage from the heat. that would be like heating up a big snowplow blade with a hairdryer, the difference in mass and the amount of heat is pretty extreme. now if you are scraping the ferro rod with the edge, then sure you could damage the edge not only with the scraping, but the very edge is very thin, and can take heat very quickly and could damage it to a small degree I would think, probably not much more steel than what you would take off on your next sharpening.

@@joecalton1449 I appreciate you getting back to me. So... using the spine, the steel acts somewhat like a heatsink to distribute the heat throughout the blade, with no real harm done to the blade itself? Thank you, again. ATB, Dingo

thanks!

Not u again

my very favorite edge is one off of one of my DMT 325's. now that being said, the last couple of 8x3" continuous dmt 325's that I have gotten have been really rough right out of the box. and the most current one that I bought a couple of months ago and opened last week was downright ugly. I will probably start looking for another manufacturer to recomend to folks here soon. in the meantime, a great one to get into diamonds is the little smiths coarse/fine pocket style one that you can get at walmart for about $25 that pulls apart and stores in its own handle.