I seem to remember, many years ago, someone claiming they were worried about using their knives with zip ties. I also remember a series of videos, from you and Gavkoo mocking that claim. Do you remember who that was?
About to jump from a 1500 grit, just finished with a 10000 chosera as nagura on it, all the way up to the suehiro 10000, they say thats too much of a jump and I would normally agree, I would pull out the papers here normally. but you have reminded me that rules shouldn't always be followed just because they were in the past.
@@knivesandstuff Well I took to a new philosophy on them myself recently. SO I initially ran it through a 400,1000,3000 grit chinese diamond, (cheap cheap) then a adaee, another chinese but higher quality 1500 stone to bring to where I was today. It left noticable scratches and the 10k chosera as a nagura would have worked well to mirror it but I didn't spend too long on it. The 10k or 1 micron suehiro has really awesome feed back and still cuts pretty fast, quite aggressive. I didn't bring it all the way to mirror cause I just wanted to get an idea of them all. It does remove sratches though, I got rid of most of them in about five minutes then decided to move on. The .75 micron is where the real polishing starts on this stone line up. Does cut but you really must start this on a mirror, feedback on this one, others have described it as a little strange and it is, it's not classically good feedback but it does give good feedback in a different way is all. Now the final half micron suehiro. OMG just buttery, very very hard stone almost zero aggression in it but dam does she polish. Normally I would have finished on a 7000wet n dry over a stone then move to .5-.3 chromium oxide strop, then the .1 feric strop and it leaves a damn similar edge to this, but this is so much more crisp and stronger because the burr has been completely and properly shaped, no half in half out efforts. I still finished on the .1 strop mainly to dry the edge and see if it made a difference, very very little. These three stones are definitely not cheap but really fun to work through. I will play with this edge for probably a week or so then I am going to the the bte and convex it on the same stones and see how much better that is. I have decided 100% I despise flat edges for feather sticks and normal use. It's nice but nope, going back to convex. I would say that all in all, using the cheapest diamond stones on the market, a decent sort of finishing stone, not necessarily a cheap 1000-2000, and then superior stones to finish is the way to go. I think I want to try a chosera 3000 because it's both hard and a cutter. At least on spyderco zdp this seems to be a very clean and reasonably quick progression.
I think 95% of the “I chipped my blade on a zip tie” comes from hitting a metal object when you have to gorilla pull the knife through it.
That works too. Very well not surprisingly.
I seem to remember, many years ago, someone claiming they were worried about using their knives with zip ties. I also remember a series of videos, from you and Gavkoo mocking that claim. Do you remember who that was?
I remember the mocking but not the target. Haha. Might have been a brand talking about unsupport edge phenomenon
About to jump from a 1500 grit, just finished with a 10000 chosera as nagura on it, all the way up to the suehiro 10000, they say thats too much of a jump and I would normally agree, I would pull out the papers here normally. but you have reminded me that rules shouldn't always be followed just because they were in the past.
That's a lot of Sharpening. Hehe. I'm very simple tastes when it comes to edge abrasives. Let me know how it turns out
@@knivesandstuff Well I took to a new philosophy on them myself recently. SO I initially ran it through a 400,1000,3000 grit chinese diamond, (cheap cheap) then a adaee, another chinese but higher quality 1500 stone to bring to where I was today. It left noticable scratches and the 10k chosera as a nagura would have worked well to mirror it but I didn't spend too long on it.
The 10k or 1 micron suehiro has really awesome feed back and still cuts pretty fast, quite aggressive. I didn't bring it all the way to mirror cause I just wanted to get an idea of them all. It does remove sratches though, I got rid of most of them in about five minutes then decided to move on.
The .75 micron is where the real polishing starts on this stone line up. Does cut but you really must start this on a mirror, feedback on this one, others have described it as a little strange and it is, it's not classically good feedback but it does give good feedback in a different way is all.
Now the final half micron suehiro. OMG just buttery, very very hard stone almost zero aggression in it but dam does she polish.
Normally I would have finished on a 7000wet n dry over a stone then move to .5-.3 chromium oxide strop, then the .1 feric strop and it leaves a damn similar edge to this, but this is so much more crisp and stronger because the burr has been completely and properly shaped, no half in half out efforts.
I still finished on the .1 strop mainly to dry the edge and see if it made a difference, very very little.
These three stones are definitely not cheap but really fun to work through. I will play with this edge for probably a week or so then I am going to the the bte and convex it on the same stones and see how much better that is. I have decided 100% I despise flat edges for feather sticks and normal use. It's nice but nope, going back to convex.
I would say that all in all, using the cheapest diamond stones on the market, a decent sort of finishing stone, not necessarily a cheap 1000-2000, and then superior stones to finish is the way to go. I think I want to try a chosera 3000 because it's both hard and a cutter. At least on spyderco zdp this seems to be a very clean and reasonably quick progression.