My knife sharpening template

Here is a copy of the template I plan on using for each knife.

Huh, it did’t post

KNIFE

Manufacturer:_____________________________		Model:____________________________________	
			
Where bought:____________________________		Date:________	Price:________
			
Data:			
			
Overall length:_____________________________			
Blade length:______________________________			
Cutting edge:_____________________________			
Blade thickness:___________________________			
Blade material:____________________________			
Blade hardness:___________________________			
Blade style:_______________________________			
Blade grind:_______________________________			
Blade finish:_______________________________			
Edge type:________________________________			
Handle length:_____________________________			
Handle thickness:__________________________			
Handle material:___________________________			
Handle color:______________________________			
Liner material:_____________________________			
Weight:___________________________________			
Blade angle:______________________________			
			
Angle:____________________________________			
Mark:____________________________________			
Depth:____________________________________			
			
Sharpening progression:_______________________________________________________________			
_____________________________________________________________________________________			
			
Date	Weight	Length	Height
	Before/After	Before/After	Before/After

KNIFE

Manufacturer:_____________________________		Model:____________________________________	
			
Where bought:____________________________		Date:________	Price:________
			
Data:			
			
Overall length:_____________________________			
Blade length:______________________________			
Cutting edge:_____________________________			
Blade thickness:___________________________			
Blade material:____________________________			
Blade hardness:___________________________			
Blade style:_______________________________			
Blade grind:_______________________________			
Blade finish:_______________________________			
Edge type:________________________________			
Handle length:_____________________________			
Handle thickness:__________________________			
Handle material:___________________________			
Handle color:______________________________			
Liner material:_____________________________			
Weight:___________________________________			
Blade angle:______________________________			
			
Angle:____________________________________			
Mark:____________________________________			
Depth:____________________________________			
			
Sharpening progression:_______________________________________________________________			
_____________________________________________________________________________________			
			
Date            	Weight	                           Length	                                            Height
	            Before/After	                        Before/After	                                  Before/After

The bottom 2 lines are suppose to be spread out in table format.

There are a couple of excell spreadsheets that work great for this in the downloads section.

http://www.wickededgeusa.com/downloads/

you could edit them to have any of the colums you list. It is important to keep track right away and keep notes. It will save you time..
:whistle:
speaking from experience here. I love the one with the logs. It works great!

Zamfir,

That’s what I did. On my mac an Excel like program is called numbers. That’s what I used.

[quote quote=“SHVentus” post=19784]Zamfir,

That’s what I did. On my mac an Excel like program is called numbers. That’s what I used.[/quote]

Knife DatabaseI hope you’ll post your knives to the :slight_smile:

Hey! I totally forgot to do that!

Thanks for the reminder.