Or you could pick up some bar stock, cut (whittle) a decent edge on it with this, then use the Lansky or the others to finish it… Oh, and if you get thrown in prison, you could whittle the bars down with it! Not sure how well it would work for a filet or steak knife, but you didn’t specify… I’ve used it on my “work knife” which gets beaten up badly, to touch up the edge. (I keep the machetes in the car “for emergencies”, so I haven’t actually used them after sharpening the last time) Shovels (yes I sharpen them), mattocks, hoes, the bush hook, axes, machetes, etc. I can (safely!!) tip the lawn mower on its side & get the blade fairly sharp with this in less time than it used to take to just remove the blade for grinding. JUST PLAYING AROUND I wiped this over one edge a couple of times - seconds, not minutes - and made it too sharp to safely refurbish!!! The immediate thought, looking at the little silver curls in my lap was “whittling steel”… It’s nothing but a small Carbide block on a steel bar dipped in plastic. I’d found a double-bit ax head buried somewhere that was in good shape so I was refurbing it for personal use. On a whim, purely because it looked interesting, I bought one.Īfter spending hours sharpening bush hooks working as a surveyor, I figured this could be fun. Once in a hardware store I saw one of these :
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