2 Diamond Stones To Rule Them All

[@lindboknifeandtool]

I picked up some 1” x 4” Venev stones. Perfect for finishing edges with stone in hand. 4 different grits for around $50. Eventually want to get a super vitrified diamond stone from BBB. I cut my teeth on bonded diamond stones, my go to edge is a 600 grit with a few passes over a ceramic stone, or stropped with 5 micron. Sometimes I even use a coarse stone, and just keep reducing pressure until I have a refined deburred super coarse edge. Micro serrations are an understatement, especially with high carbide, hard tool steels.

[@TonberryV]

I wound up stripping abrasive from my CBN stone by using too much pressure and now it's about half as aggressive because I was too impatient. Letting the tool do the work is sometimes a humbling lesson.

[@joecalton1449]

nice!! no sense in taking more than a couple minutes to sharpen a working knife as the edge will probably get wrecked on a staple or rock or something long before it ever wears out. and I have not ever once heard one piece of cardboard, rope, wood, ect... complain that it was cut with a working edge and not a mirror polished one.

[@dimmacommunication]

I only had 1 dmt stone and it got destroyed in like 2 weeks. My EZE-LAP worked since 2015

[@tacticalcenter8658]

Often times new sharpeners will wear the diamonds out too fast. I often recommend bonded diamond stones and silicon carbide for resurfacing them. They do have corse options but not really corse. Though they do have options with a lot of diamond in solution which helps hog material away. But yeah, somewhere around 600 grit is a great finishing stone for a working edge. 1k ish is fine for some steels.

[@blistersteel]

Eze-lap have become much harder to find in coarse this year.

[@DANVIIL]

The problem with sharpening with the stone in your hand is that the stone wobbles and this slows down the creation of the apex. Watch the diamond stone far end go up and down. Sure you can sharpen the edge but you could do it 3x faster if the stone was stable and not flopping up and down and this video would be over in 5 minutes.

[@mccullenj]

Wobble or not the pressure I am applying to the stone with the knife is the same which more important than wobble. Am I maintaining a perfect angle? No. Am I worried about a perfect angle? No. I am putting a sharp edge on a tool? Yes. When, I am in my shop putting an edge on a new knife or even sharpening my kitchen knives (in my kitchen) I rest the stone on a flat and stable surface. And take more care for a perfect angle. Here, I am just quickly sharpening a knife. Do what you like and what works for you. I will do the same.