BK9 Sheath is Awesome! Did you know it will polish your edge?

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Check this out. As you may or may not know. I just got a BK9 not long ago. I chopped up some stuff and lost
my razor edge. I ordered a work sharp field sharpener but until then I picked up a cheap knife steel and that didn't
get the paper slicing edge. So I picked up a Smiths two sided diamond sharpener. It got it much sharper but not
like out of the box. I took a belt added toothpaste and stropped it some and that got it close. Tonight as I was sitting
theretrying to cut some paper, but not doing as good as I would of liked. I took my BK9 and stropped it
against the strap the attaches the pouch. I had cut off the stretchy band so that my Smiths sharpener would fit in the pouch.
With nothing in the pouch and the pouch closed with Velcro. Strop your blade on the material over the little pouch 5 or 10 times.
It will turn a pretty sharp knifeinto a Hatori Hanso. Not really, but it made it slice through paper like I wanted. Try it. Test your
blade on some paper. Empty the pouch and strop you knife on the rough part I was telling you about and cut the paper again. Let me know what you think?
 
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Lots of materials make good impromptu 'strops'.

Just about anything leather or of heavy cloth like belts, jeans, even cardboard.
 
I seem to be lacking a bk 9 at the moment but it doesnt surprise me that you were able to do that, personally I'm the guy that will be randomly sharpening my EDC knife on random things to touch up an edge (assuming I've been using it a lot) I get a lot of weird looks and jokes but hey a lot of things work well in a pinch haha
 
Hit the thrift stores for cloth and leather belts. Best $1-$2 strop out there. Also grab some metal polish like craftsman or such, itll do better than toothpaste.
 
some tell that the sheath will dull the knife too :D
 
NCSlice said:
Hit the thrift stores for cloth and leather belts. Best $1-$2 strop out there. Also grab some metal polish like craftsman or such, itll do better than toothpaste.
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+1 on this. I gorilla glued a section of the smooth side of a leather carpenters belt onto a piece of 5 quarter board (rough belt side up) and it was amazing with a little compound. Not quite a mirror edge but pretty damn close n
 
Heck, I've stropped on a strap made of nylon webbing before in a pinch, so why wouldn't this work? The looseness of the material will make for a tiny convexing strop. We'll know you have it bad if we catch you with polishing compound rubbed into your sheath.

I will out myself here, my everyday belt has Dremel rouge rubbed into the back of it. If I had it to do over again....


I'd have used Porter-cable black!
 
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