Put a Durable Edge on a Hunting Knife

[@WildBushGrit]

One thing I'd like to clarify is, its important to grind the blade equally on both sides, otherwise the apex will shift off center. It's not clear from the video because of the edit, and I didn't specified it. So just don't grind heavily on one side....(unless your knife is a chisel grind, one bevel)

[@dave-kg1ue]

Thank You. The world is a better place now !!

[@pjingram33]

Excellent instructional video!! Thanks for sharing your knowledge!

[@jahunterplus2809]

Nice video man thanks for sharing that

[@frankbrowning328]

I think it’s important to note that the blades' Apex must remain balanced. We have to assure that we remove the same amount of material from each side of the blade. If we heavily grind 1 side and remove chips, we will unbalanced the sides of the blade. It is best to split the amount of work to both sides of the blade. Once this is accomplished form a bur on 1 side of the blade and then form a bur on the other side of the blade. Remove the bur and the blades profile will remain balanced.

[@WildBushGrit]

Absolutely! Otherwise the apex will shift off the centerline. I lost a few things during the edit, I'm taking notes of things I could have explained better and will do a pinned comment to supplement the video. Thanks for your input!

[@vincebelmonte7710]

Very helpful thank u

[@jayt131]

Perfect! That was just what I needed. Thanks.

[@raymondbuie5292]

Excellent video and explanation. I have sharpened knives of all types for 33 years now. One thing I know is, for every knife made, another man has a different way to sharpen it. You do what i do but just in a different way. However excellent explanation. You will tell poor steel quickly as you proceed to the finer grit as when you make 8-10 passes the burr will be gone and with it all sharpness that was ever there in low carbon steels. Usually where poor steels turn to butter knives!

[@WildBushGrit]

Many ways to skin cat indeed (is that a pun?!) I have 2 questions for you if you dont mind. 1st. What are you doing differently? and 2nd On the topic of steel, which one would you recommend for hunting knives? I'm working on a follow up video, exploring the characteristic of great hunting knives, blade profile, steel. and while we are it...3rd question which Knife would be your #1 recommendation :) For years I've been using that Mora and a 10$ rapala filet knife. What I love about that rapala is the blade is tiny, 3inches long, 1cm wide, lots of flex, makes field dressing in the cavities very easy, but that steel is soft as a napkin.

[@raymondbuie5292]

@@WildBushGrit I cut forward on my strokes i do not back stroke on the stone. I only do this in stropping on leather. I use couple belts screwed to a board each loaded with two grades of non ferrous buffing compound. It does a very nice job. I use diamond stones also and another really nice way is wet sand paper on plate glass running through multiple grades. Often these are all used in conjunction to bring back poorly handled knives. Steels… wow well now there are way too many for me to pretend to even have a grasp of these days. I’ve heard negatives about a bunch of this and that over the years. I’ve found Buck knives at least several older ones had very hard steel as did older Gerber knives. Exact composition is don’t know. I have many 1095 blades or in that arena. They perform very well and are easy to take care of. Yes, I’m a Mora fan also wonderful knives! I have several Condor, Anza, Kabar, Tops, Schrade and other brands many fantastic knives but in my normal everyday hunting fishing backpack i generally have a couple Moras because you can use them so nicely with dexterity where many field heavy knives cannot be as finely manipulated at 3x the weight. Also to be honest if i lose one at $29.00 i won’t lose my mind as if it was $200! Scandi grind 1095 , I also like some flat ground knives a lot too. Funny, when i was a young kid we skinned and gutted about everything with a Shrade Improved Muskrat because it was what we had. Actually they did very well.

[@WildBushGrit]

Thanks! that's very helpful, you gave me some pointers to my research. Muskrat works! We sometime tend to overcomplicate things a bit :) The Mora Garberg I used in this video is UHB20C, which, from my research, is really close to 1095.

[@raymondbuie5292]

@@WildBushGrit It’s not that one knife is right for every job. It’s that you know the tools limitations to use it properly around them skillfully to make it work in a pinch!

[@WildBushGrit]

Very true! Fishing, hunting, bushcraft , different beast. You could get a jack of all trade, master of none, Or carry 2, 3 specialty knives, I prefer that option for cleaner jobs.