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Can't believe internet shaquille missed the simplest way to do it (in my experience) - sandpaper. I sharpen everything with sandpaper on a leather strop (or on a stack of magazines if I'm somewhere other than home). Trail the edge rather than lead with it (so the opposite of using a whetstone). You'll need to strop it afterwards to take the wire edge off but it creates a strong, teardrop-shaped edge profile and gets to razor sharp quite quickly. Vary your sandpaper grits based on need, but I find unless a blade is really fucked 1500 grit usually works fine. Take it up a notch with some stropping compound on a leather strop to start getting really, really sharp.
Can't believe internet shaquille missed the simplest way to do it (in my experience) - sandpaper. I sharpen everything with sandpaper on a leather strop (or on a stack of magazines if I'm somewhere other than home). Trail the edge rather than lead with it (so the opposite of using a whetstone). You'll need to strop it afterwards to take the wire edge off but it creates a strong, teardrop-shaped edge profile and gets to razor sharp quite quickly. Vary your sandpaper grits based on need, but I find unless a blade is really fucked 1500 grit usually works fine. Take it up a notch with some stropping compound on a leather strop to start getting really, really sharp.