Scraping noise during sharpening from a cheap knife

[Gjackson98]

Background: For fun, I purchased a cheap 1095 hunting knife blank to make handles for.

The issue: After making the handle I start sharpening it on my stones, the knife has been making scraping noise (similar to a white charcoal pen crossing the blackboard if you know what that sound like).

The question: In this case, what does it mean? Is the heat treat basically junk? I know very minimum about blade steel and sharpening, so please help me answer if you know!

 

[PappaG]

Curious, what stone were you using?

 

[inferno]

could be that this blade was hardened correctly?

 

[Gjackson98]

Curious, what stone were you using?

I have used 5 different kind of stones on the blade all with same noise, 3 synthetic stones 400 600 1000, and 2 Jnats, Aizu and Narutaki

 

[Gjackson98]

could be that this blade was hardened correctly?

Its possible, waiting on you guys to tell me lol.

 

[kayman67]

Just had one similar today. At some point I couldn't take it and moved to oil stones. It doesn't always solve the problem, but it did now.

 

[Carl Kotte]

I have flexible ss knife which makes that kind of noize on all my synth stones no matter grit. It’s awful.

 

[Benuser]

1095 is a very common, easy sharpening steel. Nothing wrong with it, normally.
Had once a similar experience with a finely grained carbon, only on one stone in the progression. Probably remains of the burr coming off.
Clean blade and stones through the progression.