Economical sharpening tool

Bri in Chi

Bri in Chi

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If you're looking for an inexpensive way to keep tool edges in shape, without spending a ton, look to your local hardware store for ideas. Here's an idea:
Economical khukri sharpening tool:
http://www.acehardware.com/product/...w+file&parentPage=search&searchId=17315773661

Add one of these, or something similar:
http://www.acehardware.com/product/...handle&parentPage=search&searchId=17315782021

Hard to beat for any dull steel items, garden tools, anything that needs edge shaping. Won't give you a shaving edge, but will do for rough work.

The rest is up to you:D
 
I've tried that a couple years ago, but was never earnest enough to follow through and really test it out.

Lot's of chainsaw files around my house...


munk
 
Never been good sharpening with a round file . Except for a drawknife I can barely sharpen anything with a flat file .
 
Brian?

We need to get your city butt out here and cut some wood this late Fall. Chainsaw, file, fuel and chain oil, with the right wrench to break it down and tighten it up.

The gloves will be too big and clumsy, the footing will be trecherous, and you'll find muscles that you have used since you were running from the Cops when you were a kid.:D

BTW, you can snap a chain saw file nicely and have a pocket-sized touch up file for field work.

Good idea.
 
I love chainsaw files, turn 'em into everything from awls, to firesteels, to fish hooks (caught a nice bass on a chainsaw file fish hook:D ). If you've got any that are wore out and not cutting the mustard anymore, do not, I repeat, do not, throw them away.

Sarge
 
A fish hook? From a chainsaw file? I s'pose you just heated it up to cherry red, and bent the whole thing to shape on an anvil?

Cripes, I knew they grew stuff big in Texas, but ...
 
TomFetter said:
A fish hook? From a chainsaw file? I s'pose you just heated it up to cherry red, and bent the whole thing to shape on an anvil?

Cripes, I knew they grew stuff big in Texas, but ...
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Tom, the two firesteels at left, and all the fish hooks at right were fashioned from chain saw files. Just a bit of heating, beating, grinding, filing, bending, hardening, and tempering, that's all. :D

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Sarge
 
Those firesteels, esp. the 3rd one in, are really lovely. To say nothing of that antler-hafted knife. What did you use for the brass bolster?

Just got a really great deal on a new smoker barbeque, with the firebox at the side for indirect heat cooking. My first thought? A bit of refractory cement poured in the bottom to prevent burnout, hook up a blower to the damper opening, and presto - a forge. I'm seriously considering the refractory cement ...

When my wife throws me out for putting an anvil in the kitchen, I'll hold you responsible. I think it would make a great little island ...
 
Used a piece of brass pipe nipple for the bolster of that knife Tom. Say, ain't this thread about sharpening khukuris? Old worn out files are excellent raw material for making chakmas. Polish one edge slick to use as a burnisher, and leave the other kind of rough for striking against a flint. Badda boom, badda bing. :D

Sarge
 
Throw away a file? Who would do something like that? Beside, these guys can bring them back to life. I've used this company and they do a great job.
 
No one ever said on their death bed, 'I wish I could spend more time at the files."





munk
 
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