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If you were out in the woods walking the dog or hiking or what ever and got lost, how could you sharpen your M390 or some other super steel folder if you did not have a sharpening stone with you? I know they were stay sharp a long time, but what if you had to cut some wire or what ever? Don't get me wrong, I like the new steels, but was just wondering. I just what First Blood. Lol
 
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If you were out in the woods walking the dog or hiking or what ever and got lost, how could you sharpen your M390 or some other super steel folder if you did not have a sharpening stone with you? I know they were stay sharp a long time, but what if you had to cut some wire or what ever? Don't get me wrong, I like the new steels, but was just wondering. I just what First Blood. Lol
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Why wouldn't you have a sharpening stone with you? :confused:
 
If I needed to sharpen anything in a survival situation I’d use what I have on me, or what I can find.
 
That’s always been the trade off. Dulls quickly but easy to sharpen. Or stays sharp longer hard to sharpen.

As always keeping it sharp is far easier than bringing back an extremely dull knife.

if you have to cut wire try to only use a small part of the blade.
 
Survival Journal Hour One

Still lost, beginning to loose hope.

Dog unconcerned; no help at all!!

Came upon a worksite in new cul-de-sac. Resolved to baton knife through various nails, copper wires and other metals to prove edge quality as in Forged In Fire blade tests. Edge now damaged severely and lock not functioning anymore.

Situation is dire. Cell phone battery now at 72%. 911 calls & texts for requested helicopter evacuation unanswered!

Strange man in hard hat and overalls yelling nonsense. Could be Bigfoot in disguise.
 
Danke42 said:
Survival Journal Hour One

Still lost, beginning to loose hope.

Dog unconcerned; no help at all!!

Came upon a worksite in new cul-de-sac. Resolved to baton knife through various nails, copper wires and other metals to prove edge quality as in Forged In Fire blade tests. Edge now damaged severely and lock not functioning anymore.

Situation is dire. Cell phone battery now at 72%. 911 calls & texts for requested helicopter evacuation unanswered!

Strange man in hard hat and overalls yelling nonsense. Could be Bigfoot in disguise.
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Hahahahaha awesome
 
First off, you don't cut wire. You spit on it, pour water on and then wait for it to rust away. That way your edge will be safe.
 
If, if, if... and then only laughter can follow. Wild fantasies you have.
 
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Forget wire, if you use a knife where sand and dust blow in the wind you will eventually hit some of it in what you are cutting, and that will dull a knife down. I don't care what steel you use, ultimately it's going to end up dulling at least a bit.

Assuming you don't have a pocket stone, a smooth river rock will do the job slowly, but it will do the job. A rock is generally still harder than even M390 steel and it will cut and sharpen. This is also why sometimes a good quality, but less wear resistant knife can be a better choice. Years ago traditionals were the way to go and they were easy to sharpen but still held their edge fine.
 
I picked up a tungsten carbide keychain sharpener from one of the booths at Blade Show. I forget the name of it, but it is about the size of a quarter. A red plastic is molded around the piece of tungsten carbide. It works really well in a pinch. I touched up S30v in a pinch with it without too much work.

If anyone knows the name of this sharpener...please post it.
 
Jcsixx01 said:
I picked up a tungsten carbide keychain sharpener from one of the booths at Blade Show. I forget the name of it, but it is about the size of a quarter. A red plastic is molded around the piece of tungsten carbide. It works really well in a pinch. I touched up S30v in a pinch with it without too much work.

If anyone knows the name of this sharpener...please post it.
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Why don't you post a picture of it? That would probably help.
 
I am highly prejudiced on this topic, but IMAO, the chain of events that would have to occur for this to become important is just ludicrous.

You'd have to be in a survival situation with a knife but no sharpening stone. This would mean that you were not expecting to be in an outdoors survival situation but somehow found yourself in one, since if you were backpacking or hunting or driving in a remote area or something, you could have simply taken a diamond sharpening stone with you. Heck, your fixed-blade knife might have even had a convenient pocket on the sheath to store it in.

You'd have to be in that situation and also survive long enough that your knife has gotten dull to the point of being unusable through work. Now, ironically, if you have one of those knives where they're run soft "for easier field sharpening," this will happen much faster, whereas a knife that is run at higher hardness will dull more slowly. So now you have a situation where the desire to make a knife easier to sharpen is what makes you have to sharpen it more in the first place.
 
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Where do you find wire in the middle of the woods?
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In the same places you find old tin and steel cans, old pop tops, old bottles etc. I.e. wherever someone before you left it behind because they figured "meh, there's all this space and no one around to give a hoot if I don't want to carry this back out".

My personal pet peeve is mylar balloons. The number of balloons I've found in remote seldom trod areas is unfortunate.
 
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