Review on 🔪 Lansky Leather Stropping Polishing Hone: Achieve Razor-Sharp Precision by Nick Atkinson

The best way to get really sharp blades is to use a progressive rock system with progressively harder shapes. But there comes a time when it's more efficient to create a surface that hardness than a hard rock. Hence the slings and various STRING COMPOSITIONS. Wicked Edge makes the most of them. to a ridiculous extent that you can't even use leather. more to hold the mixture, which is instead sprayed onto a fine brush designed for the purpose. In your typical Lansky system, you may or may not start with an extra layer (70 grit) or row (120 grit) of diamond stone. followed by a medium diamond stone (280 grit) or a soft Arkansas stone (300 grit). When creating a new edge or edge angle, I find it best to use all three. However, with a blade already sharpened, you're working backwards, although that's not always a bad thing. If you don't get the original edge angle right, just make a new one. The end result will be better. Use a fine diamond stone (600 grit). Then hard Arkansas (650) grit. Ultra fine diamond stone (100 grit) and black hard Arkansas (1200 grit). Now your blade is razor sharp and well polished. And now your sharpeners are probably measured in microns, not grit. 1200 grit is 15 microns. Here you will need two of these lines and a pair of 14 micron and 10 micron Wicked Edge Stropping Compounds. To give it a nice, ridiculously sharp edge and then polish it with a fine sapphire sharpener. The size of the sapphire grinding wheel is just under 10 microns, but it takes a lot of work to go from 1000/1200 grit to 2000 grit (10 microns). That is why you need slings and connections. The result is about as sharp as you can expect from most knives. If you are not a sane person, you can also get 4 more of these leather belts and 2 more pairs of belt links. They are available in 5 micron/3.5 micron and 1 micron/0.5 micron sizes. In addition, formulations are sprayed on and reduced to 0.025 microns. Why? Why not. Only the toughest steel or ceramic will hold such a thin edge. Much sharper than a razor. Maybe a special blade for sectioning microscopic specimens. Blade sharpening has become a cult in recent years, thanks in no small part to the Lansky system itself.