I was in my 50th hour of sharpening when I had an almost religious experience where I realized that
polishing and sharpening where the exact same thing but on different parts of the blade. It hot me that you remove just the tiniest amount of steel to make the knife's real potential visible just like Michelangelo did with marble.

When you polish a blade you are removing a tiny amount of steel with abrasives in order to make it perfectly flat. When you want to polish out a scratch you have to remove material until the entire rest of the steel is as low as the deepest part of the scratch.

When you sharpen a edge you remove metal with abrasives in order to make the dents and deformation go away and leave a clean sharp edge.

Underneath a tiny bit of metal of a beat up dull rusty old knife is a shiny polished sharp one.

I want to make my old user SH-E look like the one Ban modded that just sold on the BF exchange.

Michelangelo used to say he did not create statues instead he simply removed all the parts that were not a statue from a chunk of marble.

I swear when I get a knife especially a beat up coated one I can see the parts I want to remove and the knife underneath.

I had a sharp-a-thon yesterday. I finally got around to putting a convex edge on my British Golok. It came out wicked!


I bet it will out chop my BRKT golok now.