Sharpening knifes and other tools
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I show how i sharpen my tools and my crook knife as well
Tags: Sharpening,tool,knife sharpening,survival,outdoor,william myers,mantis outdoors,preparedmind101,bushcraft,survival kit
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hi guys doing this we buyers mass outdoors today we're going to show you how I sharpen up my knives and other sharp tools don't go away alright guys so a lot of things see on the table here is what I use to sharpen up my tools with and primarily what I'm going to use is a sharpening stone whetstone of some kind this down you actually can use oil with and that just helps you create a slurry and the slurry that comes off here which would be the the metal and the stone grit itself coming off of each other will actually create a different kind of grit on here and get you a nice polish going on and helping the sharpening process at that as well some stones you don't want to use oil with just want to use nothing but water you need to look into that when you're buying a whetstone this stone is a bit dirty huh it is 220 and 1,000 so it's a combination stone there's plenty plenty of combination stones out there this I cannot tell you what brand of stone this is because it is incredibly old this has been passed down through the family for a little while I use leather straps for finishing and i use a buffing compound with that some people call this green jewelers Rouge so if you if you need to look that up green jewelers Rouge and I'll just spread that on and be much dropping but we're going to show you guys that here in a little bit so other than that I have 3000 grit sandpaper 1000 grit sandpaper and 2000 grit sandpaper i also have 220 grit sandpaper as well and that's just the process that i use to sharpen some blades especially like the kirk knife and things like that but if you know you got a problem area on your knife like a big rough spot you know you didn't weren't able to do blade maintenance as well as you think you should have and you got a nice corrosion on your blade or even if you pick up like an old blade from a thrift store or something like that or a yard sale you know these the 220 and then progressing up the thousand two thousand to three thousand you're going to restore that night to a beautiful condition I love taking old knives that people just really don't care about and they're ready to throw them away and I'll take them and make them look like brand new you know sometimes their family heirlooms and people just do really appreciative of that but anyways we're going to sharpen this pocket knife that I got here and we're going to clean it up sharpen it up because pretty dull we're going to do that on camera right now okay guys so this is the mora crook knife that i got and as soon as i did the video on that I got a couple people ask me how to sharpen it up and it's really not that hard it's still absolutely razor-sharp it really does not need sharpen but I'm gonna go ahead and demonstrate how I would sharpen it and depending on how doll it is uh I would if it's really really really dull I would start out with the 220 and then go up from there with the 1000 but like I said it's still really sharp so I'm just going to start out with 22,000 grit sandpaper just to show you guys how to do it I don't need all this sand paper here this is auto body sandpaper and you can get that like advanced auto parts or you know whatever O'Reilly whatever auto parts store you have in town usually will carry it what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna go ahead and fold this paper in half just take your sandpaper and touch the bevel just like that see if i have the crook knife flat against it and then just touch the bevel just like that and then drag all the way across the bevel just like that yeah that's still I mean it's kind of different actually sharpening the knife it's already pretty sharp but just to demonstrate how you do it that's how I would just like that we could take it on the edge that i've been using as well just it sutton keep it touched up keep it honed so like I said keeping the the crook knife straight and then just meeting the bevel and you can almost do this by I by looking at the shadow so if I see the shadow on the sand paper and then I'm going to just touch it until the shadow meets and then swipe across using a diagonal motion just like that oh yeah this knife is absolutely razor sharp but there you go that's how I would sharpen the Crypt knife but this knife right here is really dull so let's go on to that so with this I really don't need to use any of the sand papers for this I I would stick to the stone for this and what I'm going to do is just make sure that there's no blemishes or bumps or anything on the stone just want a really smooth stone I'm going to take a little bit of this olive oil I'm gonna pour it in a cap here and just spread that on the stone itself you know and I like using Japanese water stones and things like that and I have some of those as well but they are not at this location so maybe we'll do another video about that so I'm just going to spread that oil around the stone we get some of this 2000 grit sandpaper and I'm gonna actually clean the blade surface up because it needs touched up no I really don't care if my tools get dirty but you know when its blade maintenance time it's time to clean everything up get all the pine resin or whatever I've been cutting on off of there
there you go now what we did was give that oil a little bit time to penetrate that that stone itself okay when I'm starting to sharpen my blade i'm going to lay the knife flat against the surface of the whetstone itself and I'm just going to pick up the blade until the bevel meets the stone itself and that tells me where my angle is and that's about right there and then just slowly swipe that across the stone just like that and now if you see right there what happened was when I meet these curves right here I have to pick up the blade to follow that curve so what I'm going to do is give this about ten swipes in one direction and then 10 swipes in the opposite direction again following the bevel alright so now i'm going to go 10 times across the surface of the whetstone and i'm going to flip flop each time i come across so i'm going to go once down flip try to just slow to show you guys I'm kind of hiccuping on the on the stone flip I'm gonna do that about 10 times as well
oh yeah that brought that edge right back to where it needs to be now we can strop the edge up alright so let's throw a piece of leather on top of here and we'll show you how to strum all right well there's plenty of compound on this as well I just want to show you guys you know just apply this just apply that buffing compound pretty liberally on there and if I'm sharpening this way I'm stropping this way what I mean by that is from tip all the way to the base the handle all the way down and then I'll flip it and go to the reverse way all the way down and when you're thinking about sharpening you need to think about actually polishing you want a high polished edge on your knife and that's what's going to give you that razor-sharp blade
alright so with just a little bit of work not very much at all we brought this curse all back to the edge that it really needs to be that's absolutely sharp right there I guess we should probably cut some cardboard or something so you guys can see how the edge is that's good enough for me alright guys well I just wanted to show you guys how I sharpen my blades you know I keep my tools absolutely razor-sharp I always make sure they're sharp right before I go into the field I have things in my pack that will pay attention to that edge while I'm in the field you know I carry a small stone and a diamond rod with me you can see that in the video that I have on my channel it's cold what I carry on my body at all times that's on a hip pack and one that's always with me you know these are the methods that I use to keep my tools sharp and keep my tools maintained and well oiled I always keep my knives of especially carbon steel always keeps a layer of tallow or some kind of oil on them as well burly bomb we're going to be doing a video about burly bomb here a little bit it's great for for tool maintenance itself keeps my guys from any kind of corrosion whatsoever but you guys are gonna be seeing that here in a little bit but this been William Myers manis outdoors hope you enjoyed this video if you did I appreciate it if you click Subscribe like in my video helps me out a lot appreciate all your views comments and support hopefully we'll see how it was
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William Myers MantisOutdoors
Modern and primitive skills, fun in the woods and product reviews
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