very interesting! I am going to experiment with that.

Interesting 👍🏻

Das ist das schlechteste Video, was ich in über 10 jahren gesehen habe. Nice guy but bad video...

Yup. This is definitely not the way to sharpen a knife. This guy does not know what he’s talking about. Low consistent pressure is key. Especially on convex blades.

Word! The higher the grit, the less pressure you wanna use and compound/stropping as almost at the top of grit by then the edge is so thin any too hard pressure my end up A) rolling the edge giving you a bur (if the knife is soft enough [most European knives) or B) Chipping away part of the edge, making you cry (if the knife is hard enough [most Japanese Knives)] Also, this applies double for diamond stones, they remove metal as if it was wood, i grind a point-less knife in 5 strokes back to scary poiny with one of them(400grits), crazy useful, but they eat metal like you couldn't imagine.

You know, you could have made a video on this long ago with your own belt. Just saying.

@@tankerboysabot I find there's a lot of people with knowledge without cameras and/or camera skills, and a lot of us with good cameras and filming skills, without stuff like this to share.

@@T4nkcommander I get that, but if its a skill it can be learned or outsourced.....sometimes you can find someone who can do a decent job fpr a decent price just to get started.

@@T4nkcommander Christopher Nyerges (School of self-reliance) had a great quote saying, "the people that are the most skilled and most experienced with outdoor skills and bushcraft are people you have probably never heard of."

Thanks for your reply but I don't like the sound of my own voice and I don't even look in the mirror and I ain't going to pay nobody you all got it now so I don't have to worry about it

Yep. And the less pressure the better!

Sounds like you never apexed

Yes honestly if you just make a habit of doing it ever other time you use your knife often you will never have to sharpen it, I've truly never realized what correct stropping can do to your knife. It can turn it from a sharp knife to a scary sharp knife.

Aluminum oxide compound last about 30 strokes. Diamond emulsion or sprays are so much easier

Except when you swipe twice it's all gone and absolutely no use whatsoever.

@@ReasonAboveEverything It's not perfect, but it does work, and you may have to keep redoing. It's mainly to show you if you're on target or way off, in order to develop feel. It's just a variation on machinist's blue dye.

@@carlosreira2189 also similar to how to fit a tomahawk handle to the head so it friction fits snuggly

@@impermanenthuman8427 Oh yeah, good one. And a bunch of other applications, sometimes with chalk instead, such as fitting a dovetail mortise. Thanks for that comment, blessings of success to you and yours.

The method that I use is to look at the blade while rotating it slightly with a light source that is a few feet away, the polished areas are where you are working the blade. Watch for the shine.

I second this. The DC4 is all I use most of the time. I don't usually hit my water stones near as much anymore.

Thanks for the tip!

This is DEFINATELY not the correct way. Less pressure is needed. Only the weight of the knife. This guy doesn’t know how to strop at all. Heat? Give me a break y’all live in fantasy. If you do it this way all it’s going to do is blunt the knife

@@dispmonk If you're gonna criticize the dude, at least learn how to spell before writing anything. "DEFINATELY" is not a word. Shall I spell it for you? Nah.

YES. I would almost rather have 1095 steel or 440C now after trying to maintain the supersteels. D2 drive me nuts.

That thing the barber was stropping the razor on? That's called a strop. Strange but true.

@@twatmunro Yep, but for a five year old kid, it was a belt

Same experience here. Started @ 6 yr and had the same barber until I left for college. Was always intrigued watching the “old” man get a shave, especially the hot towels and stropping. Always wanted to try it, but now I’m an old man and still never experienced it.

Love the diamond paste! I use it for many things. I have 5. micron all the way up to 40 micron. I mainly use the .5 - 10 micron.

The sound of the steel is also important. You see people cutting paper after supposedly having sharpened the knife. I want to hear the ssssssst sound Not the scratchy scrrrrt sound

Good afternoon from upstate NY brother

Hi my friend

@@earlshaner4441 enjoy your day

I will as I get ready to teach 1754 survival camping skills

@@earlshaner4441 that's awesome!!

When you change from one side to the other always turn your edge away from the stone and strop.

I've been at straight razor honing and stropping for 7 years. I've been honing knives since I was 8. You're correct about how fine the edge is, if the steel is up to it. I have a few straights that are trash, their steel is too course grained or trash steel that cannot take an edge fine enough. The edge begins to break off when getting that fine. Makes for a terrible shave. They are just sitting around for looks. Most are average steel that gives an ok shave. My best is from the early 1800's, probably around 1820. It is a no name blade with only a crude Sheffield stamp on it so likely made by an apprentice. But it will take an edge that even my modern German blades cannot. Silky smooth. It just wipes the stubble off. Problem is, it's a true wedge so laying on the spine isn't viable. I use thick Gorilla tape to give a slight repeatable advantage. I never place a true comfortable shaving edge on my general tools especially my folders, if you screw up and it springs down on the tip of your finger, that fingertip is gone. Few have experienced a true shaving edge, my friends constantly ask me to put that sort of edge on their folders and I refuse. A quick strop is all they get after a 1k stone. They're impressed and have no idea. If you know what a true shaving edge can do, the thought of it on a folder that snaps down when closed is ass puckering. An interesting note about a comfortable razor burn free edge, it doesn't feel sharp. It feels like running the rounded back of a butter knife over oiled skin as it snips the stubble and wipes it away. It's deceptive. If it feels "sharp" it isn't. That is a ragged edge breaking skin cells open and will leave razor burn.

The bur should be removed during the sharpening stage, on the stone. Don’t move onto the stroping stage without removing the bur

Sharpening is simply an abrasive process. When you talk about polishing, buffing etc. they're also abrasive processes where you procedurally take down the microscopic peaks and valleys created by the previous step. The finer you go the closer those peaks and valleys come to being flat(this is all on a microscopic level mind you). So after stones/sandpaper you go to compound, a finer abrasive. Eventually if you wanted to go crazy with it, you end up buffing with something like a soft cloth, and believe it or not this also has an abrasive action on those peaks and valleys. It's very tiny and gentle, and so the difference is only visible when you've worked your way all the way up through the grits and types of polish. The leather has an abrasive action on its own without compound. If you wanted to go the extra mile, you could strop with compound, clean the blade, then finish by stropping on a clean piece of leather to get an even sharper edge. Stropping while you work(so for instance while woodcarving) helps maintain the edge of the blade by removing the micro-damage that occurs during use, giving you back that clean geometry that helps maximize and concentrate the force you put into the blade into the cutting action. Sorry for the excessive info, I just find this stuff to be interesting and have always felt that understanding the processes we're doing helps us to innovate and improve.

@@nikitavolchik I fully agree! In field maintenance on the other hand, I usually have leather on hand, if only just a belt or the inside of a pouch. Compound not so much in the field... But you're absolutely right and KZfaq has more than enough videos that show this, microscopic view and all.. Kind regards...

Brian Bartulis, Glad you are carring on with his land. Feel you're doing him proud. . . .