Frank

He’s a little more in that he does the custom sharpening for Ferrum Forge and has a bit of a following in some circles at least. He does everything freehand, don’t know how I feel about that as a guy that values precision and repeatability, but for people that don’t know how to sharpen knives and are willing to pay $30 for someone else to do it he…[Read more]

Good question- his official reason was “The stuff does NOT like diamonds”. I think that they A)load up really fast and B)cut in a way that does not leave a refined edge no matter how small the grit.

I’m only guessing here, but since this material doesn’t have carbides, vanadium, etc. a good edge may be the result of gently bending the apexes…[Read more]

As per Mike Emler, do NOT use diamonds on SM-100. Just got a Stinger in SM-100 myself but it’s off for repair so I haven’t had at it yet (I’m a TSPROF user BTW).

You don’t even want to use CBN, just silicon carbide I think. The guys at Ferrum actually just use sandpaper to sharpen their stuff.

It will load up fast, and diamonds don’t work on…[Read more]