Cutting!

LOL

Cutting indeed.

I should put up a sign at the shop about sharpening. Might be a good p/t job for my p/t job

That meme is very funny but all to true.

I bought a Buck 110 and a sharpening kit in 1972 onboard the USS Mobile while deployed with BLT 1/9 off the coast of Viet Nam. The sharpening kit was a soft arkansas stone about 2" by 5", a smaller hard arkansas stone and a tin of honing oil. It was thin and pink. I had a lot of time. And so I learned how to turn a blade into a piece of steel that wasn't hair popping sharp, it was hair laying down sharp with my hands, eyes and a stone. I still can, but lately use shortcuts that are nearly as good and a LOT less time consuming. Bass Pro guys aren't that good anyway, I've felt blades they did. OK but nothing exceptional.

The proliferation of sharpening gadgets shows that few people have the skills, and have not been taught how to free hand sharpen.

I came to the conclusion that this magnifying lens, on my SAK, is the most important took I have to make a knife sharp.



If you can't see what you are doing to the bevel, or the edge, you are not going to maintain a constant angle, and if you cannot examine the symmetry of the edge, the edge will not be in line with the centerline of the blade.

That's funny because I am always sharpening one knife or another! My daughter thinks it's funny!

I sit in the rocker in the reloading/music room and strop my Spyderco or which ever knife that I have used recently. I can never get them to my satisfaction, but they are always sharp. I keep a strop or two handy along with a fine grit Norton stone. None of my friends keep a sharp knife, they just have one they have cut wire or nails or something. Some of them are pitiful.

Have a blessed day,

Leon

Bass Pro. A friend of mine's kid was hired there and became their instantaneous knife sharpening expert. Wow, as Doug would say - that knife will CUT!

Taught my son to use the Lansky. He took to it pretty good.

Got my first knife in 1st grade. One time i tried sharpening it with a file. One of the few times dad really yelled at me. After he cooled off I was taught how to use a stone.

Good laugh