A couple of points to help you. I make knives and have a jig close to yours. First, use a marker on the edge to see where the high and low spots are for a 100% uniform edge. Second, get a good leather strap to strop the edge after sharpening. It will remove the micro burrs from the edge. Third, get you an assortment of chain saw files from 1/32 to 1/4 and make a second arm for the jig to hold the files to sharpen the serrated edges. Just keep in mind that the serrated blade edge is shaped on a slighter angle than the regular blade. Only a couple of degrees difference between the two but it is a difference. Other than those notes you are an inspiration to all outdoors people. I love watching your videos.
Use a permanent marker on the edge before using the stones. It will show you where you have removed material and where you need more work. You can wipe it off with isopropyl alcohol
Another great project, Lilly. I have been wondering about something like this for a while, and here you are with one! You have lovely hair ... please tie it back when using tools.
Rotating caster bearings are amazing. I made a bike trailer hitch from one and it's still going strong five years later. It's impressive how much they can take.
Very clever, very nice! You do fine, beautiful work Lilly! I wish I could have watched your videos with my father before he died. I think he would have liked them very much. He was very clever and inventive also. We could have done these projects together. Thank you.
great video, lilly! something i thought of while watching you sharpening your knives is, since you have only 2 stones, maybe mount the other stone on the opposite side. that way, when you are ready to switch stones, you just have to rotate the arm around to the other stone.
Hi Lilly. You did a remarkable job in this video. A lot of work no doubt. Thanks for the video. Nice workshop too. It is very important to keep all our survival knives sharp and ready. Thanks a lot.
As someone who utterly sucks at sharpening his swords, that might come in handy. Unfortunately, I also suck at crafting stuff. Time to ask someone about it!
Wonderful workshop! Great tool you’ve made there. I have one myself that was gifted to me. It’s awesome to put the exact edge you want on a knife consistently! Nothing like a fresh edge. My son brings all his when he visits so they’re always perfect. Hunting, kitchen, pocket knifes we do them all at once. Thanks for sharing!
I like it, very ingenious. I use a Lansky for my pocket knives, which is similar to what you made. As some other people have suggested, I use a sharpie on the edge to see exactly what I am taking off and where. Also always run your stone against/towards the edge, lift up and repeat, instead of going back and forth, or at least that’s the way I have always done it. Mineral oil, or something similar helps to.
Nice jig. With a little more work I imagine you could come up with a mount that holds 2 or 4 stones (so you just rotate the rod to use a different one).
Good job. And maybe mounting a handle onto the detail, to which the whetstone is attached, could make the job more convenient and could protect your fingers from getting cut.
Hello, don't be bored, sorry, you have to calculate the angle precisely for sharpening, for example, a 20 degree angle is good for a knife blade, you have to use trigonometric functions to adjust this angle to calculate the size of the side of the base, the size of the height and the size of the arm that is the sanding stone. and build the system according to those sizes The second point is to use water when sharpening so that both the blade and the sanding stone are not damaged (of course, there are two types of sanding stones, water sanding stones and oil sanding stones). Good luck
a couple of tips if you don't mind: - cut on the left side of the vise, that way you can hold the cutoff piece much more easily - don't move the sharpening stone sideways, it will wear a groove making it unusable for normal sharpening - that handle has 4 sides, you can mount more than 1 stone on it and just rotate it to use a different stone, i also just watched a different video on this subject and the guy made a spring loaded mount for the stone. 3 screws and 30 seconds is way too much when you have 10 knives to sharpen and have to change 3-4 stones for each. Otherwise nice job.
counterbore first then drill hole. use a countersink for flat head screws, not counterbore. for flat head screws you drill first then countersink. you’re getting a burr when sharpening because you’re dragging the stone away from the edge. push the stone towards the edge, and you will not get any burrs.
Old school do it by hand. I enjoy sharpening knives, found that I enjoy it more holding knife and stone. Bought one of those sharpening systems always went back old school. Takes practice go slow stick with it.
Hello, Lilly; Good video, & good design. Use a phone app, ( I have Rotating Sphere Inclinometer ) to check the angle of the blade. Then check the angle of the stone-holder, subtract the blade angle from the holder angle. The difference is the angle your knife is sharpened at. Have a GREAT day, Neighbor!
В России принято нож точить " навстречу "лезвию,так металл не растягивается на кромке. Бумагу нужно резать медленно и без остановки проводя каждым миллиметром по полотну снимая макро камерой.За идею 5 из 5 ,за реализацию 3 из 5
Good video and very clear. I have a suggestion: When drilling smal and larger holes at the same point: first drill the large holes, it is much more easy.
I am surprised that you do not credit Young Je for the design of this sharpening jig. He built his jig about a year and a half before this video. and side by side they are almost identical. The only difference is he used machines and produced a much more refined jig than the rather crudely made jig you produced using hand tools in line with the survivalist tenor of your videos. All the best.
You might try a linear bearing for the rod guide. This will work well, but mine used to squeal if the metal got rough. I had the bearing in my 3d printer stuff, and popped it in. Nice and smooth. I always grind toward the blade, and alternate forward and backwards at an angle. The stone makes grooves, and changing the angle rips those off. Good for removing a lot of metal when you need to. Leather or canvas, and polishing compound and strop the shit out of the blade.
Great video thanks! I never realized that you are such a handy girl! And you have a well equipped workshop! Also it's the first time I noticed your beautiful hands! 👍🖐️
Awesome sharpening jig! Similar design to one that some knife makers use to shape their knives primary bevels. Well done. Also, wow your shop is super clean👍👍👍.
WELL DONE LILLY! A LOT of good thought went into the planning and THEN...the making of your new jig = TALENT! I would add to your title; 'Special guest appearance; AMY!' (LOL) Health and God's blessing upon you n' yours!
Thanks for watching this video. You will find the sharpening stones and my knives here: www.survivallilly.at/
Would you be kind enough to share the blueprint?
Have a great day and take care.
Where did you get your work table from ??
When will your knives be back in stock I want to buy a few for my kids and i
I used to use stone as a knife. A use and throw stuff.
A couple of points to help you. I make knives and have a jig close to yours. First, use a marker on the edge to see where the high and low spots are for a 100% uniform edge. Second, get a good leather strap to strop the edge after sharpening. It will remove the micro burrs from the edge. Third, get you an assortment of chain saw files from 1/32 to 1/4 and make a second arm for the jig to hold the files to sharpen the serrated edges.
Just keep in mind that the serrated blade edge is shaped on a slighter angle than the regular blade. Only a couple of degrees difference between the two but it is a difference.
Other than those notes you are an inspiration to all outdoors people. I love watching your videos.
Use a permanent marker on the edge before using the stones. It will show you where you have removed material and where you need more work. You can wipe it off with isopropyl alcohol
Just a suggestion. Towards the blade. I've been sharpening blades for over 30 years. A honing tool is also very good after.
I get a great edge doing this but it seems like at some point I start shaving off the stones. Is that normal?
I would like to see a shop tour.
Yours looks compact and we'll equipped.
Hoch beeindruckendes Resultat liebe Lilly! SUPER gebaut! Beste Grüße, Sepp
This looks great. Will cover many different tools including garden tools.
Another great project, Lilly. I have been wondering about something like this for a while, and here you are with one!
You have lovely hair ... please tie it back when using tools.
Rotating caster bearings are amazing. I made a bike trailer hitch from one and it's still going strong five years later. It's impressive how much they can take.
Very clever, very nice! You do fine, beautiful work Lilly! I wish I could have watched your videos with my father before he died. I think he would have liked them very much. He was very clever and inventive also. We could have done these projects together. Thank you.
Nice job I need to make one. I find knife sharpening very relaxing. This jig makes it easy for anyone to sharpen perfectly. Thank you🙂🇺🇸 stay healthy!
great video, lilly! something i thought of while watching you sharpening your knives is, since you have only 2 stones, maybe mount the other stone on the opposite side. that way, when you are ready to switch stones, you just have to rotate the arm around to the other stone.
Hi Lilly. You did a remarkable job in this video. A lot of work no doubt. Thanks for the video. Nice workshop too. It is very important to keep all our survival knives sharp and ready. Thanks a lot.
Sehr coole Idee! LG Felix
The best part of cooking shows with fancy chefs......sometimes they will show them sharpening knives. swish swish swish swish done!.....skills.
I was like "whoa" with this video. Multi-talent. I admire that
I would make a second holder so each stone has separate one,
Or, redesign the end piece and have the second stone on the opposite side. Hold both at the same time.
Was going to suggest the same thing
Awesome post
Professional knife sharpening costs $1.00 per inch in many locations here (Texas)..but it’s fun to sharpen our own knives when needed.
HELLO LILY AWESOME LIKE ALWAYS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! BE SAFE.
"Ferb i know what we're gonna do today."
😂
Very nice jig and build. Love the clean and tidy workshop. May I suggest a band saw to make you more efficient. Greetings from Sydney
Australia.
Очень интересная задумка!!! Вы молодец!!!!
Nice, a woman with craftsmanship👍👍
Hi Lilly and Amy. Happy to see you are doing great. I enjoy watching when your at your workshop. Thanks for the video. ATB
You are getting better and better at fabricating things! Well done Lilly!
As someone who utterly sucks at sharpening his swords, that might come in handy.
Unfortunately, I also suck at crafting stuff. Time to ask someone about it!
Wonderful workshop! Great tool you’ve made there. I have one myself that was gifted to me. It’s awesome to put the exact edge you want on a knife consistently! Nothing like a fresh edge. My son brings all his when he visits so they’re always perfect. Hunting, kitchen, pocket knifes we do them all at once. Thanks for sharing!
Ist ja cool. 😎 Also sowas habe ich noch nie gesehen. Was du immer für coole Ideen hast. 😊
Grande,magnifica passione e la tua mono d'opera è favolosa. Complimenti
You are amazing... Your skillset is growing each day... Cool video thx
I like it, very ingenious. I use a Lansky for my pocket knives, which is similar to what you made. As some other people have suggested, I use a sharpie on the edge to see exactly what I am taking off and where. Also always run your stone against/towards the edge, lift up and repeat, instead of going back and forth, or at least that’s the way I have always done it. Mineral oil, or something similar helps to.
Nice jig. With a little more work I imagine you could come up with a mount that holds 2 or 4 stones (so you just rotate the rod to use a different one).
de lo mejor que he visto, realmente sos muy talentosa Lilly !!!! Saludos !!!
u made it girl, will try to do my own allready have the stones and my folding knifs completle unsharpened so, cant wait!
Well done Lilly. 👍😁
Hi Lilly, this self-made tool is interesting, and congratulations on your manual skills. Greetings from Italy and super LIKE.
👍👋
This is a very nice design you could even do a slight alteration for a filing jig to make your own bevels godbless and thanks for sharing.
Nice! I was just looking at buying a jig! I definitely have these parts laying around the garage. Sweet.
Awesome video very helpful thanks
That's Brilliant Lilly
Nice job Lil!
Very nice Lilly. Good problem solving skills.😊
Good job. And maybe mounting a handle onto the detail, to which the whetstone is attached, could make the job more convenient and could protect your fingers from getting cut.
Very good idea. I think I'll build one
Awesome job Lily! I've often thought about buying a jig like this but now I have a better idea how to build my own. Thanks for the awesome video!
Hello, don't be bored, sorry, you have to calculate the angle precisely for sharpening, for example, a 20 degree angle is good for a knife blade, you have to use trigonometric functions to adjust this angle to calculate the size of the side of the base, the size of the height and the size of the arm that is the sanding stone. and build the system according to those sizes
The second point is to use water when sharpening so that both the blade and the sanding stone are not damaged (of course, there are two types of sanding stones, water sanding stones and oil sanding stones).
Good luck
I always enjoy watching your videos you are a very smart young woman. And quite handy around the house and in the shop. I like your accent also.
Lilly. Your some cookie and very clever carpenter. Joiner. Wow. Never thought of restoring an old motorcycle?you have the hands for it.
Well done !!!
Absolutely brilliant Lilly
Ingeniously awesome! Thanks for going through the build.
I thought that was really awesome. You have a cool workshop. Great work.
a couple of tips if you don't mind:
- cut on the left side of the vise, that way you can hold the cutoff piece much more easily
- don't move the sharpening stone sideways, it will wear a groove making it unusable for normal sharpening
- that handle has 4 sides, you can mount more than 1 stone on it and just rotate it to use a different stone, i also just watched a different video on this subject and the guy made a spring loaded mount for the stone. 3 screws and 30 seconds is way too much when you have 10 knives to sharpen and have to change 3-4 stones for each.
Otherwise nice job.
counterbore first then drill hole.
use a countersink for flat head screws, not counterbore.
for flat head screws you drill first then countersink.
you’re getting a burr when sharpening because you’re dragging the stone away from the edge. push the stone towards the edge, and you will not get any burrs.
Old school do it by hand. I enjoy sharpening knives, found that I enjoy it more holding knife and stone. Bought one of those sharpening systems always went back old school. Takes practice go slow stick with it.
Very nice jig & very accurate. Nice work.
Brillian idea 👍
This was an awesome video. A wee break from the norm but highly entertaining. Brilliant build and exact angle on the blade every sharpening.
Your so crafty,. I loved the video.
Super Arbeit.👍
Hast du eine Liste vom Material die du genutzt hast und die Maße dazu???
Nice setup! Very interesting. And you got a good workshop in your house. 👍
Hello, Lilly;
Good video, & good design.
Use a phone app, ( I have Rotating Sphere Inclinometer ) to check the angle of the blade.
Then check the angle of the stone-holder, subtract the blade angle from the holder angle.
The difference is the angle your knife is sharpened at.
Have a GREAT day, Neighbor!
В России принято нож точить " навстречу "лезвию,так металл не растягивается на кромке. Бумагу нужно резать медленно и без остановки проводя каждым миллиметром по полотну снимая макро камерой.За идею 5 из 5 ,за реализацию 3 из 5
That turned out to be pretty cool
beautiful invention to sharpen knives with the perfect angle beautiful an excellent invention good day hello👍👋
Super clever
Cool build
Super.
You are making good videos despite the lock down, thanks
Good video and very clear. I have a suggestion: When drilling smal and larger holes at the same point: first drill the large holes, it is much more easy.
Very nice! Now I really need to get my garage cleaned up so I can make one!
Lily, you are a southern man's dream girl! I love your videos and I beat you can prep too. Keep up the great things you do! :)))
Nice Job Lilly . Well done
Super impressed with your never ending mountain of skills. You are a wonderful role model to any young girl that wants to do it all.
Good work lili
Brilliant!!!love it!!!
Sehr geil. 👌
I am surprised that you do not credit Young Je for the design of this sharpening jig. He built his jig about a year and a half before this video. and side by side they are almost identical. The only difference is he used machines and produced a much more refined jig than the rather crudely made jig you produced using hand tools in line with the survivalist tenor of your videos. All the best.
You might try a linear bearing for the rod guide. This will work well, but mine used to squeal if the metal got rough. I had the bearing in my 3d printer stuff, and popped it in. Nice and smooth.
I always grind toward the blade, and alternate forward and backwards at an angle. The stone makes grooves, and changing the angle rips those off. Good for removing a lot of metal when you need to.
Leather or canvas, and polishing compound and strop the shit out of the blade.
That was pretty cool!
oui,tres bonne idée merci a bientot
Gud'n! Probier doch mal eine Senk- oder Linsenkopfschraube zum Festklemmen der Klinge. Das spart einiges an Bauhöhe.
ja hab grad keine gehabt die passt
Best video ever
Lilly, you are definitely a sharp woman! ( No pun intended!) Its good to see a woman doing building something so mechanical!
I like the way you think. It's cool and practical. ❤ from Texas.
Hi lily you are really good at your wood working skills and love that I will make one for myself and all so love your lovely workshop take care xx
Super video as usual lilly.
Nice!
This one sounds like a game-changer!
Nice 👌kleiner Tipp mach dir ein 2tes Holzteil mit dem Diamant Schleifstein dann brauchst nur kurz eine Schraube lösen und fertig 😜
Great video thanks! I never realized that you are such a handy girl! And you have a well equipped workshop! Also it's the first time I noticed your beautiful hands! 👍🖐️
Awesome sharpening jig! Similar design to one that some knife makers use to shape their knives primary bevels. Well done. Also, wow your shop is super clean👍👍👍.
I love your channel !!
Nice job 👍👏 , your shop is awesome , looks like you have everything you need ...😉😎🍀🇺🇸🍍
That is the coolest thing since sliced bread! Cowboy approved!
If you drill a small hole either side on that part with the washers , through bth washers and the wood you can bolt them in place firmly.
Clever design :)
Well done Lilly.
WELL DONE LILLY! A LOT of good thought went into the planning and THEN...the making of your new jig = TALENT! I would add to your title; 'Special guest appearance; AMY!' (LOL) Health and God's blessing upon you n' yours!