hrdwrguy
03-26-2005, 08:07 PM
Hello all, I recently bought a knife with a D2 blade (another brand I won't mention here ;) ) and have had an interesting time sharpening it. I have an old model sharp maker, the 203 I think, which had done everything else I own no sweat. This time though was a different story. This stuff is harder than anything else I have worked with. My final solution was to give up on the gray stones (temporarily) and pull out an old Lansky sharpener and grind at the blade at a very low angle. I took the new profile almost all the way to the edge and then stopped and went back to the sharpmaker and got what i think would be called a double bevel. This edge works quite well now and I am enjoying the edge holding power of d2 steel, now that it has a good edge on it.
Has anyone else here gone through similar ordeals to work with this stuff or have tips (please don't telling me any really obvious shortcuts :p ). I kind of like this metal now in a perverse, masochistic sort of way, and I am looking for more examples of it to add to the always growing collection.
Has anyone else here gone through similar ordeals to work with this stuff or have tips (please don't telling me any really obvious shortcuts :p ). I kind of like this metal now in a perverse, masochistic sort of way, and I am looking for more examples of it to add to the always growing collection.