Cruzatte
50 Cal.
While walking along the beach on vacation in Oregon, I picked up two round, smooth, black, and very hard stones, perhaps basalt that I've used to touch up the edges on my knives. They work well, I think.
Nothing else,,cost less works better for meDoesn't anyone use float glass and Wet-Or-Dry? I can polish a shaving edge with 2000 grit emery paper simply enough.
I am not much for carrying a knife. But I am very particular about my kitchen knives. Have three better grade Wusthoffs that I am in love with. Got an extra fine Ouashita Stone That I use to sharpen them. For the few old carbon steel hollow ground OlD Hickory knives, I use a medium synthetic stone that I found at a flea market. Hawks and hard use items are sharpened with a fine mill file.
I am curious how someone gets through the day without a knife on their person?
I see Millenials who grew up in environments ( public school system and home situations ) where pocket knives were not tolerated, chewing and gnawing like an animal on various food containers, bags and boxes trying to get them open when simply having a pocket knife would have solved the problem efficiently. I shake my head in wonder.
I carry a Victorinox SAK and a Benchmade lockblade every day, and use at least one of them at least once a day.
I would be lost without a knife.
But of course, it's your choice, and it works for you.
Bottom rim of a ceramic coffee cup. Been using for almost 30 years.Try the un-glazed edge of a crock, will put a shaving edge on the knife if you do your part
Yeah, I saw in Backwoodsman magazine, you can use the old ceramic house-wiring tubes from the old days...I have 2-3, they're just ceramic like the bottom of a cup or plate. Being a tube, they're handy to hold...lots of good tips in BW, anyone else subscribe? (These were the tubes placed in holes drilled in beams, to run the elec. wires thru...)There is one gent that insists the bottom of a coffee mug is as good as any. As noted: skill is more important than anything else.
All those two hundred dollars fancy designer knives advertised in the gun mags never get used; they might get "dinged up"...99% of guys are like you; just use an everyday commonDiamond hone for everyday quick edges on tools, box knives, and such. Ceramic sticks for kitchen knives, and a super fine old black Arkansas stone for carving tools. Funny I own a bunch of high dollar knives, buy carry a $6 spring assisted folder from Tractor Supply...and that's the one that never gets lost. Go figure.
Try the un-glazed edge of a crock, will put a shaving edge on the knife if you do your part
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