How To Sharpen Carving Knife With Steel
Tilt the knife so that its cutting edge meets the shaft of the sharpening steel at a 22½-degree angle.
How to sharpen carving knife with steel. Here are three different ways that you can sharpen your wood carving knives. For whittling knives and detail knives hold the edge at a 17-19-degree angle. Method One Push Away.
How to Sharpen a Carving Knife. When sharpening your whittling and wood carving knives you will want to target an edge angle between 12 degrees and 20 degrees inclusive. Hold the honing steel handle and plant its tip into your kitchen cutting board or any other wooden plank.
When sharpening on a stone put some oil on the stone. With your other hand hold the knife crossways against the steel with the back of the blade the part nearest the handle touching the steel. The motion should feel as though you are trying to slice a thin layer of the stone clean off.
Apply light pressure and bring the blade. For this method you will want to lay the blade of your carving knife almost flat on a sharpening stone and push it away from you. For gouges and chisel keep the blade at 30 degrees.
Youre going to be pulling the knife backward toward you so you want to start with most of the blade in front of the steel. You will be working downwards. To hone the other side of the knife place the bottom heel of the blade on the other side of the steel near the top.
To sharpen the hook knife I spray glued 6 long strips of sandpaper to 12 dowels. Run the other side of the knife down the steel. If the cutting edge angle is too large it will make the blade harder to push through the wood.
