How do you sharpen my knife without a sharpening stone?
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How do you sharpen my knife without a sharpening stone?
You can check the answer of the people under the question at Quora “how to sharpen a knife at home without tools“
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My gut reaction to this question is to say, “Don’t!”. If you have a good knife and you keep it sharp with a proper stone, there should never be an occasion that you would have to sharpen it with anything else. Only in a survival situation, after having done something irresponsible to dull your knife, should you consider having to resort to other means of sharpening. The wrong choice could easily make matters much worse.
Some possible choices might be: the unglazed bottom of a ceramic mug or plate, very smooth, hard, river rock, or the top of a car window.
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bottom of a coffee cup, edge of the car window, rim of a plate, bit of fine sand paper stuck to a piece of glass. lots of ways to sharpen a knife.
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Farmer here. If your not fussy about the look of the knife, and you want a daily razor sharp blade, simply sharpen it on the concrete block of any building. It’ll be lethal, could dismember your family, and the only way my father ever sharpened a knife in his life. Just don’t do it with your Japanese chefs knives.
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I was just looking knife sharpening up a little while ago. I was surprised with how many different ways to achieve a similar result to using a sharpening stone there are.
I now use the bottom of a ceramic mug. It has to be ceramic. Take the knife in your dominant hand and run it across the rough surface on the bottom at a 30 degree angle, for the full length of the knife, from the bolster all the way down to the tip. Depending on how dull the knife is will determine how many lengths you will have to repeat. If it’s not too bad, I find 5–10 strokes per side is sufficient. Stropping afterwards is not essential, but why not give it a quick strop if you have a piece of leather. A belt will suffice. This will remove any fine little burs left over and is what you are doing when you use a steel. A long cylindrical file with a handle and guard.
Speaking of steels, they are NOT for sharpening. A steel is used in between uses to hone the blade. It does slow the dulling process and removes little burs and knicks from normal use. Always keep your hand properly placed behind the guard. If you are using your own knives which you paid top dollar for, I highly suggest you run your blade, full length from bolster to tip, or vise versa, before and after each use. There are a few techniques. Practice and find which you are most comfortable with. It can be dangerous so start slowly. Work your way up to the level the professionals are at. You can easily lose a finger.
I have also seen a belt grinder in a machine shop used to get insanely sharp edges in seconds. Pretty neat. However, if you don’t know what you are doing you can quickly damage a perfectly good knife.
Other methods are, another knife, the top of the glass on a window in a vehicle when it is rolled partway down, as well as a flat rock found outside. A river rock would be perfect.
In any situation always be careful handling a knife. It demands respect. I have seen horrific results when this is forgotten. In regards to respecting your knives, keep them sharp at all times. A sharp knife is a safe knife.
Happy sharpening!
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Go to the chainsaw section of a hardware store and purchase one of the fine, flat files for adjusting the depth gauges on a saw chain. You can put a pretty good edge on a knife quickly with one of those. Protect the file from being dinged by keeping it in a plastic or cardboard sleeve. Get a set of EZE-Lap diamond hones for touching up your blades and making a really fine edge.
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I use the bottom of a ceramic coffee mug 🙂
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If you don’t have a stone or an other dedicated sharpener, and the skill to use them, you can usually send a knife back to the maker or manufacturer, and for a modest price they will return it to a perfect, like new edge. There are also many fine knife sharpening services available in most major cities and some smaller ones. Otherwise read on, there are many useful answers to this question if you are in a hurry.
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You could use sandpaper.but you have to fold the paper so it only affects the sloped edge. & you need fine like around 220 & higher. If it looks rough then do some strokes on scrap to dull the paper. The test for a knife is you hold a sheet of paper with the edge facing up. Then with the knife in your other hand you bring down the knife to cut the paper. A sharp knife cuts the paper. A dull knife would do nothing except maybe bend the edge of paper
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With a 1″ belt sander with belts of progressively finer grit, ending with, say 9 micron. Scary sharp, like the use of Japanese water stones. Youtube should have some helpful content.
The water stone is basically a source of fine grit and a firm surface to work against, so a paste made of gritty powder like jewelers’ rouge and a sheet of glass ought to work.
There are also leather strops available for the sander if you want to polish a straight razor.
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The best way to hone the blade is by using an edge-grinding wheel. You could also try using a sanding block and rub the blade on the sandpaper to make it shrp.
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Any smooth stonelike surface will work. Some examples:
Bottom of ceramic mug, old brick, piece of cement, a rock or stone, fine sandpaper, the side of a building, concrete steps, the road or sidewalks, etc.
Just put a little oil or water on it and away you go!
It just has to have a little flat spot. No metal or plastic.
It is very common to steel a knife with another knife but that won’t get it sharp again as mentioned in other answers.
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LET BE CLEAR ONE IS TO RETOUCH BLADE YOU SLICED FEW LOAF OF BREAD TO ITS ORIGINAL SHARPNESS// AND OTHER IS WHEN KNIFE EDGE IS DAMADGED OR DEMANDING A WHOLE ANGLE REGRIND// THE TOUCHING TO GET FEW 10 CUTS BACK YOU CAN USE / CAR WINDOW WHERE IT OPEN CLOSE//WHERE IT S MILKY //BOTTOM OF SAUSER OR COFFE MUG// CAN BE IF KNOW WHAT TO LOOK A RIVER ROCK OR RED BRICK FIRST PLANED//LEATHER BELT /OTHER STEEL AS 2 ND KNIFE ALL THIS WILL HELP BUT THIS IS RE TOUCHING NOT ,REAL SHARPENING //
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If you don’t have a knife stone, a ceramic coffee mug with a rough surface on the bottom works just as well. But Damascus kitchen knives are best to use a whetstone.
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