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    Quote Originally Posted by Micky Duck View Post
    That's interesting...try changing your steeling angle. My work mate has been getting me to sharpen his knives and it had me buggered how they got so blunt. Once I chucked out his draw through tool much better but they keep coming back with huge rounded shoulders...then I saw him use steel. It's my firmly held belief that your knife should just about lay down against the steel when stroking it. (The back edge of blade closer to steel) You are after all just trying to restraighten the tiny bent bits on very edge of blade. If your knife is at closer to right angles to steel you are rubbing the sharp bit off. The only way I can discribe that is with hand flat curl tips of fingers over....that's a worked full blade.by steeling you are unrolling fingertips back straight again.
    Pretty much what I've been doing - I got a good old skool Cambrian steel (one of the fine cut ones). Even that didn't do it, just left it like a kids toy knife... Using a diamond hone works if it's handled with care but you have to be careful with it. The Scary Sharp deals with the bulk sharpening, and a few licks with the fine diamond hone and it's shaving sharp. Stays that way for a considerable time too, but not with a steel anywhere near it that's for sure.

 

 

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