Via David Codrea here
The actual process of honing your pocket knife, survival knife or hunting knife’s edge of your knife’s blade is a relatively simple process and thus requires little explanation.
However, having the proper whetstone for the job at hand is an integral part of the process and yet, choosing a whetstone can be a rather complicated process requiring extensive explanation.
Then, there is the matter of different types of blade steels and different types of blade grinds which require different grits and different honing angles.
So, if you do not yet understand the difference between a Flat Grind and a Saber Grind, a water stone and an oil stone, an India Stone and an Arkansas Stone, then read on and everything you need to know about how to sharpen your knife will be revealed to you.
Before we examine the actual process of honing a knife blade’s edge, let’s first examine the nature of whetstones.
For example, whetstones are divided into different groups consisting of naturally occurring stones such as Japanese Water Stones and Arkansas Oil Stones and man made stones such as Crystalon (aluminum oxide) and India Stones (silicon carbide).
Also, both natural and manmade whetstones are classified as either water stones or oil stones which means that they are meant to be used with either water or oil as a lubricant.
In addition, there are additional types of man made whetstones such as diamond hones and ceramic hones that can be used either with or without water to lubricate them.
Plus, both natural and man made whetstones are available in different grits with the more coarse grits being more abrasive and the finer grits being less abrasive.
The primary reason that it is important to know and understand all of that is because different knives with different types of blade grinds need to be sharpened at different angles in order to achieve the proper type of edge.
So, let’s start with a description of blade grinds but, in order to do that, we first need to define some terminology.
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