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5)
Sharpening your Randall Knife
The
sharppening stone supplied with your Randall Knife is not intended for
routine sharpening of the knife blade. A much larger whetstone is
required to properly sharpen your Randall Knife. Use a stone
atleast 6" x 2" to properly hone the edge. Use a soft Arkansas,
fine daimond, or fine India stone to maintain a keen edge on your
knife. A medium or coarse stone should only be used when an edge
has been allowed to lose the original beveled edge and needs extensive
work to restore the proper bevel. Practice your sharpening skills
on a kitchen knife and use a magnifying glass to see how well your
sharpening strokes are matching the bevel of the blade.
- Apply a light coat of machine oil or honing oil
to the stone surface.
- Lay the knife blade flat against the stone with
the length of the knife positioned about 45 degrees to the length of
the stone.
- Tilt the knife keeping the cutting edge against
the stone so that the blade makes a 20 degree angle to the stone.
This is the bevel angle that creates the sharpened edge. The
sharpest edge comes from carefully maintaining this angle throughout
the motion of the blade across the stone surface.
- Move the edge across the stone from hilt to tip
sweeping the blade in the direction of the edge.
- Turn the blade over and sweep the edge across
the stone using the same conssitent angle of bevel and sweep as used on
the first side.
- After several strokes against the stone on each
side, gradually reduce pressure against the stone as you begin to
restore the sharpened edge.
- Develop your technique for maintaining a
precise bevel angle as you sweep the edge across the stone by checking
the edge for improved sharpness about every other stroke as you get the
edge closer and closer to a final sharpened edge.
- Clean the blade after sharpening to remove
metal shavings, stone grit and honing oil.
If you have trouble
holding the angle conssitently as you sweep the edge across the stone,
consider using a jig to control the angle. Smith's EZ Sharp is a
sharpening aid that will help maintain the stone at the proper angle to
accurately hone your knife blade.
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