How to Sharpen a Knife : How to Sharpen a Head Knife

A head knife, or straight razor, can be sharpened by warming up a leather strap, keeping the knife to the strap, rolling the blade back and forth on the leather, and making sure to get the whole blade. Sharpen a head knife once every five or six years with insight from a knife grinding specialist in this free video on sharpening knives.

Expert: Tom Warner & Mark Woodward
Contact: www.llorenz.com
Bio: Tom Warner has worked at Lorenz Grinding since 1960. Mark Woodward has been the owner of Lorenz Grinding for more than four years.
Filmmaker: Michael Burton

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[MikeEST1977]

1:20 lol yeah i stroke it 100 plus times LOL, but i always try to get her to do it!

[gssixgun]

This is barely even a beginning to the world of Straight razor Honing and Maintenance in fact this is actually very mis-leading in it's simplistic view...

[jedirifleman]

@gssixgun Oh I know this vid sux and there is more to it than shown. But there is a happy medium as well. I have been to SRP and seen some people describe spending several hours on stones and honing a blade. Maybe my face is tougher than theirs or maybe I am blissfully ignorant to have a simple method that does just what I need and nothing more.

[jedirifleman]

@gssixgun Yes, and one can also overcomplicate taking a piss on a fence to the point they have to have an hour prep time to do it.

[gssixgun]

@maximon72

Hint, straightrazorplace google that and start there if you are really interested in learning about Straight Razor shaving, honing, stropping... I could type for hours about the subject, in fact I have typed for hours on it...

[andrewpocock1]

instead of doingthe x pattern, go on ebay and pay 20 pounds/dollars or so and buy an xtra wide strop

the extra wide strop are 3 inches wide and should be wide enough that you can simply strop with straight up and straight down movements

[maximon72]

@gssixgun how so?

[laikros]

But why show people how it works?You get less costomers :P

[timmit104]

Press 8 for: "Stroke it 100 times."

[hcoll]

Nooooooo, you don't "move back and forth", you do an X pattern stroke.

[boogyman19946]

@cokebeareroverdose Stropping (what the guy is doing) does not sharpen the razor. A strop can be used to sharpen a razor, but not without a paste or some kind of addition to the leather that will remove metal from the razor.

[vespine]

He gets a "feeling".. . rofl...