Knife Sharpening - Zdp 189 and Magnacut on Suehiro Debado

Knife used - Hogue Mysto and Spyderco Caly 3.5
Steel Type - (Hogue) Magnacut and (Spyderco) Zdp189
Stones Used -
Suehiro Debado - 600 Grit
Suehiro Debado - 1500 Grit
Leather strop with White Compound
Bess 'C' test based on 3 cut test averaged - Hogue Mysto 103g, and Spyderco Caly 135g

[@nikosplaysdrums5678]

Glad you’re back to posting, Jef. Love learning from your videos. Keep em coming

[@Jef]

Appreciate ya checking them out!

[@TimJohnson-x1o]

Cool video Jeff. Debado stones are underrated. I love Zdp 189 for kitchen knives. It's like really hard blue steel that's stainless and has 10x the edge retention. The cool thing about Zdp 189 is that it's by far the easiest steel to machine, grind, sharpen and polish for the level of abrasion resistance it has. The stuff holds an edge like 10v but it sharpens more like VG10. No special abrasives like diamonds needed. It's 1/3 chromium carbide. Takes a mirror polish incredibly well and quite easily. The friable stones like that in Japan they say you're supposed to finish with edge trailing and the friability basically pulls the burrs off. Seems to work but it's all personal preference, many ways to skin the cat.

[@barkingspider2007]

Great Veideo! I'm picking up my bench stones again. Most of my sharpening has been done on a TSPROF K03. I like to sharpen. This is another tool in my kit. Thank you for the video! 😎👍

[@Jef]

The tsprof products are solid. They make some crazy sharp, crazy beautiful edges. I’ve got NOTHING against guided systems. They are, after all, what got the sharpening bug, to bite me. Still, free hand is just easier, imo. Less setup, and issues can be fixed with more finesse.

[@park3y]

“Hopefully, that’s not damaging the stone.” Brother, you could beat these things on the counter and the owner wouldn’t care. lol. I guarantee it. I’m ready for the sharp worx vidyas! Lol great job, as always!

[@Jef]

lol well they are new. I get nervous about damaging other people’s stuff 😁

[@park3y]

@@Jef heck no, brother. It’s all good. You’re literally the person on here who took the time to teach me how to care for stones (for free). If a rock can’t take running an edge across the corner, I’m not sure that particular rock should get to live with the others. Lol. Even if you tripped and it broke into three pieces, wouldn’t bother me one bit! Happy you got some use out of these stones. Lol.

[@EDCandLace]

Zdp is an incredibly fun steel to sharpen and work with. I have always really loved sharpening seki done zdp189 its such a responsive steel and really is lovely on super vitrified diamond stones.

[@Jef]

Yea i really like zdp. Its up there with Maxamet and magnacut in my favorite steels 🤙

[@dombond6515]

Late night vid!!! Love it keep em coming

[@Jef]

Got plenty to show. Two different sharpworx guided systems. Thatll be next i think. One of em at any rate

[@JohnDoe-zb7dz]

​@@JefI have the pro model so I'm looking forward to your opinion and tips. Not sure if you have the dual clamps, because they're not available on his site no more. The pro I bought has both dual clamps and the magnetic clamp.

[@Jef]

@@JohnDoe-zb7dznah mine just came with the magnet clamp

[@jamesmiller360]

Enjoyed the video, thanks for posting.

[@Jef]

Glad you enjoyed it! Appreciate you watching

[@park3y]

It took longer to flatten the the 1500 than it takes to flatten a venev 1200 ocb. As you’ve pointed out in other vidya, the higher grit venevs take much longer. I was utterly shocked how long it took to remove graphite marks on the 1500 debado. 20cv didn’t do much better than zdp on these stones. I figured and hoped that magnacut would sharpen a little better than zdp on these. I’ve had good luck sharpening magnacut on even shapton pro stones. ZDP and silicon carbide seem to be a match made in heaven.

[@Jef]

It got that Magnacut sharp. I can’t say the 1500 was cutting much, but the test came out clean. The gram difference between tests wasn’t very large which is good 👍 That flattening sounds like some other stones I’ve came across. The Pride Abrasive 10k is one that comes into mind. Just the hardness of those makes it a chore.

[@glockgaston2922]

Jef really good video as always. I appreciate all the time spent making them and thanks for sharing brother 👊🏼

[@Jef]

Thanks. It does take a minute to get them together. I've been really unmotivated the last few years to continue with the effort. I've put out a pretty comprehensive library for anyone wanting to learn sharpening, and the time it takes. Other than showing off new stones and systems, not sure what else I can contribute :)

[@knifesharpeningnorway]

Looks good as always. Im really loving magnacut in my knives both kitchen and outdoors

[@Jef]

Yea Magnacut so far, seems to be awesome stuff

[@knifesharpeningnorway]

@@Jef yes sir

[@stevenlachance8576]

Good as usual

[@Jef]

Appreciate that 🙏

[@백페이커]

nice video😊

[@Jef]

Thanks for checking it out!

[@RumonHoque-v8t]

Can Sharpen with shapton kuramako

[@Jef]

I got tons of videos showing those stones. Just search my channel

[@larrydarrell826]

The Suehiro Debado LD-21-DN (or LD-21 if you want the base) is the best non-diamond coarse stone on the market today. Debado SNE and MD series are obsolete and pointless, don't waste your time. Debado LD-101 skip it (better stones in the 800 - 1200 grit range). Debado LD-601 good but expensive, plenty of competition in this grit range (4000 - 6000).

[@Jef]

The “best” non diamond coarse stone on the market? That is a bold statement. I consider myself a connoisseur of coarse stones. You have definitely got me interested. I’m buying one 😁🤙

[@Jef]

Well i was gona buy it. It’s 88$. Too many cheaper options on the market like the norton crystolon