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Originally Posted by Atmo
Those are great tips, thanks for posting.
I have a mixed set of Zwillings Twin Henkels knives. I'm not sure if they're high carbon or stainless, their website says it's a proprietary blend.
From watching my sharpening guy, he has a complex wrist motion like a Vegas card dealer. With the blade almost flat on the stones, he works the edge in an oval motion. He says he sharpens by feel and can do it with eyes closed. Are there videos online you'd recommend to learn the right motion?
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I'm familiar with the Friodur stuff, my parents have a set as well. Aggressive stones help, since their burr is more prone to bending than carbon (rustable) steel. 1200 + a hone is good enough for me, they work well with a toothier edge. It's still enough to shave hair and feels sharper longer than if you go finer.
The video below is almost exactly how I learned. I'm picturing the complex wrist motion you mentioned as a way to hit the whole edge with each pass. Starting out I would try a simpler method like shown in the video, which should make it easier to focus on maintaining a constant edge angle.
You'll pick up the feel part as you learn to associate it with a burr. It's capillary adhesion between the stone and the now-flat edge you created. If you've ever had two flat sheets of material with liquid in between and tried to pull them apart, it's that but on a much smaller scale. The stone has a big effect here, some making it pronounced and others almost unnoticeable.