Thread: Sharpening convex edges

A few of yiu know that I make knives and sheaths and also sharpen knives and have various different methods of sharpening, until recently I sharpened convex edges on a slightly slack belt on my 2x 48 belt sander, but just recently I purchased a little jig for my Russian made knife sharpener, this little jig puts a 7.2 degree angle on a knife edge, I just recently bought a Svord peasant diy kit and once I had made the knife I used the jig to sharpen it, took a while to get the hang of it, mainly due to muscle memory freaking out from the new shape it makes, but once that had settled in it was sweet, worked a treat.

There is a lot of debate about whether convex edges are any good, well Svord and Bark River use them and all I am going to say is they are stronger that other edges, and I can now do them in a jig, and will do yours too, I took my little Svord to 4000 grit on waterstones and it’s fantastic.