Sharpen a knife - PEP BB tool.sand.knife

There is always a knife that needs a renewed edge, this time it was our chefs knife.

Here is my submission for "Sharpen a knife - PEP BB tool.sand.knife":

I am providing photos of the following:
 - pic of the dull knife raggedly cutting through a piece of paper
 - action pic of sharpening
 - pic of the sharp knife having cut halfway through a piece of paper

Requirements to complete:
- must be sharpened with a whetstone (or more than one)
- sharpen secondary edge as well as primary edge
- hone
- test before and after with cutting paper

To get certified for this BB, post three pics:

 - closeup of pic of the dull edge OR pic of the dull knife raggedly cutting through a piece of paper
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 - action pic of sharpening
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 - pic of the sharp knife having cut halfway through a piece of paper
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Hey PEP-folks,
My trusty SOG pocketknife was dull. Sad.
I have previously sent them back to SOG for sharpening, and they always did a good job, until one time they took the knife I'd had since high school and sent back a (sharp) replacement. I wanted them to sharpen it, not steal it. Sad.
Over the weekend I installed a solar water heater (documented in a separate post), and the SOG was so sad it would not cut the foam for the pipes (fig 1). Very sad.
So out came the whetstone and the water and the courage (just regular intangible courage, nothing liquid), and I sharpened the SOG myself. (fig 2, 3, and yes, fig 3 was shot this AM because I hadn't taken an action shot while actually sharpening the knife because both hands were busy).
Behold, a papercut of the best kind in fig 4. Now the pipe insulation foam is no match for my knife (fig 5), which is an admittedly low bar, but was the presenting problem.
Happy homesteading,
Mark

Attempting my first BB.

I did take a whole time-lapse of me sharpening the knife but I cannot upload videos here, so let me outline what I have been doing:

- I soak the whetstone for 30 minutes
- I let constant water dripping on the whetstone while sharpening
- I hold the knife at a consistent angle while gliding over the whetstone.
- making sure that I always move away from the blade
- applying 5 levels of pressure with my finger while gliding
- doing first a few strokes at level 5 (the strongest)
- working my way down each level giving less and less pressure
- level 1 being just letting the knife's own weight do the work
- checking knife's sharpness by carefully gliding my thumb over the blade with no pressure. If I feel soft resistance I know the knife is sharp
- then I switch to the other side of my stone which has a much finer grit in order to hone it
- applying level 3 pressure again, working my way down to level 1
- inspect knife's sharpness once more
- drying the knife

Sharpened this knife with a wet sharpening stone.  I need to practice this.
I'm only used to sharpening shovels with a file.

Several knives in our junk drawer. The other day we needed a knife but the usual one was upstairs and all the knives in the junk drawer were dull. So…

(also honed, but got pictures just of sharpening with whetstone...kinda hard to hold a camera, a hone, and a knife)

Here's me sharpening my little Gerber ultra light pocket knife for this BB.



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I wanted to work on my wooden spoon BB some more now that the wood had dried out but my knife needed a bit of sharpening. I used my whetstone,  honing stone and oil.