Some of my work.

Sadden

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Hey there, my name is Colin, I am a semi professional knife sharpener. I specialize in hard, vanadium rich steels.


Heres some of my gear, i primarily use a modified edge pro. I have a large collection of synthetic and natural stones, compounds, and strops


Cold Steel Rajah 2 in BD1


Customers CRK in S35vn


Customers Forum Knife in S90V


My EDC, an S90V Spydie/Phil Wilson Southfork


My Maestro Wu, made from ww2 era bombshells, thats one of my wifes hairs...
I import these for the Canadian Market


A customers Yojimbo2, in S30V





Thanks for looking in :)
 

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Oooh that Insingo looks fantastic! I love my Insingos. Might need one touched up one day... 🙂
 

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Hey guys! Thanks for the interest. I dont do a ton of customer knives due to my day job keeping me pretty busy. But I am double checking with the mods before posting up a link if you guys want more information. Mostly this is a hobby. But i do take on customer knives via mail order. :D
 

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Great work! Those look amazing. I just started getting into knives and am proceeding slowly so at this point I can only dream of getting my knives anywhere near as sharp as that haha!
 

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So my sig and link are all cleared via Bill, so looks like its good to roll out, looking forward to hearing from some of you, stay tuned around here as i will be updating this thread with pictures :p
 

Goodmak

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Nice collection! Sharpening is my biggest headache so I have to use Lansky sharpeners.
 

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Wow fantastic work! You have so many stones I'm so jealous :( . I've gotten into sharpening my own knives too but damn I can never get my edges to a mirror polish like that. Could you list out your stones and paste/spray? Pretty interested in that stuff! Also how often do you freehand vs guided system?
 

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Could you list out your stones and paste/spray? Pretty interested in that stuff! Also how often do you freehand vs guided system?

Might be a trade secret, after all he does have a blade sharpening business.

Bill
 

Sadden

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You have an interesting collection of Japanese polishing stones.
Yeah I have around 25 different Jnats, And a big box full of Naguras :p Although not all are strictly polishers, I have some that are fairly coarse.


Wow fantastic work! You have so many stones I'm so jealous :( . I've gotten into sharpening my own knives too but damn I can never get my edges to a mirror polish like that. Could you list out your stones and paste/spray? Pretty interested in that stuff! Also how often do you freehand vs guided system?
I use so many different things, it would be a very long list. But my most used products are....

Atoma Diamond Plates- 140, 400, 600, 1200
Shapton pro Stones - 220, 1k, 1500, 2k, 5k, 8k, 15k, 30k
Cubic Boron Nitride Compound (Ken Schwartz)- 1u, 0.5u, 0.25u, 0.125u, 0.1u
Polycrystalline Diamond Compound (Ken Scwartz)1u, 0.5u, 0.25u, 0.1u, 0.05u, 0.025u
I strop with Kangaroo leather or nanocloth strops coated in the aforementioned compounds.

I normally use the edge pro to do my initial edges. On personal knives i will touch up or sharpen freehand sometimes. On customer knives i primarily use the edge pro.
 

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Wow I didn't think anyone actually used the Shapton 30k. Do you think it's overkill in your opinion?
IN all honesty, my stone is not very good. leaves very large scratches for a 30k stone. Kens compounds are much more finely graded.
 

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IN all honesty, my stone is not very good. leaves very large scratches for a 30k stone. Kens compounds are much more finely graded.

That's pretty interesting you say that. Personally, I've only used up to a King 6K which is probably no where on the same level as Shapton's stones in terms of quality but I think it fits my skill level.
 
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