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1] If the easiest [smallest & lightest] thing you could take is also the safest for your fingers and is inherently quicker and more accurate why stick to an inferior method.
2] For all practical purposes sticking another bevel on it and removing it when you get home is functionally no different from a poor sharpening bodge job requiring one to hog off a lot of metal at a later point. Bad for your time and bad for your wallet. Unless you really have to that's just poor form.
3] I do tend to love those in the old days people used X so it is good enough for now type arguments. In the old days many of them didn't live very long, and spent a lot of their lives pregnant and poorly shod. In the old days many of them had pissy attitudes from having a maize based diet low in Tryptophan, and you can still see it in some 3rd world countries today. In the old days the tools and methods tended to be dramatically inferior to those that have evolved into being today. Why, because they found that stuff unsatisfactory.
2] For all practical purposes sticking another bevel on it and removing it when you get home is functionally no different from a poor sharpening bodge job requiring one to hog off a lot of metal at a later point. Bad for your time and bad for your wallet. Unless you really have to that's just poor form.
3] I do tend to love those in the old days people used X so it is good enough for now type arguments. In the old days many of them didn't live very long, and spent a lot of their lives pregnant and poorly shod. In the old days many of them had pissy attitudes from having a maize based diet low in Tryptophan, and you can still see it in some 3rd world countries today. In the old days the tools and methods tended to be dramatically inferior to those that have evolved into being today. Why, because they found that stuff unsatisfactory.
