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Well I'm no expert on anything, but I have found a large percentage of the population have a real problem getting a knife sharp! I personally use a DMT steel, and a leather strop. I have found if you want to keep a knife good or a women good you need to give them both a little attention pretty often!
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I have found if you want to keep a knife good or a women good you need to give them both a little attention pretty often! [/quote]
You better give yours a lot of attension or she'll kick your arse.
When it comes to knives and guns, what does NEED have to do with it?
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Dale, my wife is meaner than an acre of snakes!!
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When I can't get a knife sharp by hand, I use a Sharpmaker. The ceramic stones work well with any steel.
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Edge pro apex to set a double bevel and then smith ceramics to maintain the edge. By using an 18/21 deg bevel for most good steel it takes abuse to do damage that the ceramics wont clean up in a couple passes.
I have one S30V blade that has done a pile of work and just gets kissed by the ceramic once in a while.
Hunt hard, kill clean, waste nothing and offer no apologies.
"In rifle work, group size is of some interest...but it is well to remember that a rifleman does not shoot groups, he shoots shots." Jeff Cooper
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I use Japanese stones exclusively. Shapton Ha no Kuromaku in 320, 5000 and 12000 grit and Naniwa Chosera in 800 and 2000 grit. I have used these stones on scandi, flat and convex grinds with good success. The steels have been 1084, 1095, A2, D2, VG10, Sandvik 12C27 3V and ZDP189. I have never been left wanting. I was amazed at how easily I was able to get rid of a nasty chip/roll in a 3V Bark River recently.
I then strop on balsa wood and leather.
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