Let's Talk About Sharpening Our Survive! Knives

This little setup works well for the small knives but it's a little more work to get the 6 back to normal.
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Texas_toothpick said:
Yes junkyard I see it now.

Silver, most likely just a fine ceramic and a strop would be plenty to fix a usable edge. But if its damaged it could take more. Depending on how damaged it is would be the sign of what to use to said damage. If that makes sense.
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Makes total sense and that is what I was getting and hoping to hear.

If I'm not chipping or rolling the edge or getting it crazy dull, could I get by (and more importantly preserve steel) by just stropping?
 
If you use an abrasive in your compound you can sharpen by stropping, but unless your cutting edge is pretty thin it is going to take a long time.
For field knives like the one's from Survive I agree that stropping is more of a polishing step.
 
I've been using a DMT set-up like Fancier for most of my sharpening needs.

In fact, if someone is looking for a DMT Aligner Kit with Extra-Fine (green), Fine (red), Coarse (blue) and Extra-Coarse (black) hones, i can make that happen. It comes in a blue DMT zipper-pouch and is not the Diafold set. It's what I've used to maintain my edges up until now, you can see me use the green hone free-hand in a couple of my Chamdar17 videos. I recently purchased the Diafold aligner kit, so this one is fairly redundant.

Like Fancier mentioned, the Extra-Coarse (black) is for bigger tasks, I used mine for knocking down edge-shoulders to thin the grind on knives and to sharpen some friends' knives that were too dull for the higher grits to sharpen in any reasonable amount of time. Common practice is to keep a toothbrush and soapy water around to help clean the hones during sharpening if they stop cutting due to build-up.
 
I have a Spyderco Sharpmaker that has done me pretty good with all my knives. I also have a Smith's 4" diamond combo that I use for duller blades or if they have a nick in them. I also use wet/dry sandpaper on a mouse pad for convexing the edge and also a homemade leather strop. Lately I have just been doing everything by hand and eyeball with regards to angle and I can get a knife pretty sharp pretty quick and painless with the fine diamond, then hand-holding the ceramic rods from the sharpmaker.

I once used a found stone by a river and then the top of a car window in Canada to make a super dull Benchmade Ritter Grip cut like a dream a couple years ago on a duck hunting trip. I feel like I have the touch.

I just ordered one of those Work Sharp Guided Field Sharpeners ($27 at Amazon) since it has the diamond, ceramic, and strop all in one compact package. That's exactly what I'm looking for when out on hunting/fishing/camping trips where our knives (hopefully) get used a bunch in a short period of time.
 
chiral.grolim said:
I've been using a DMT set-up like Fancier for most of my sharpening needs.

In fact, if someone is looking for a DMT Aligner Kit with Extra-Fine (green), Fine (red), Coarse (blue) and Extra-Coarse (black) hones, i can make that happen. It comes in a blue DMT zipper-pouch and is not the Diafold set. It's what I've used to maintain my edges up until now, you can see me use the green hone free-hand in a couple of my Chamdar17 videos. I recently purchased the Diafold aligner kit, so this one is fairly redundant.

Like Fancier mentioned, the Extra-Coarse (black) is for bigger tasks, I used mine for knocking down edge-shoulders to thin the grind on knives and to sharpen some friends' knives that were too dull for the higher grits to sharpen in any reasonable amount of time. Common practice is to keep a toothbrush and soapy water around to help clean the hones during sharpening if they stop cutting due to build-up.
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+1 to the Aligner kit....I recently beat the crap out of my 5.1, multiple folds and nicks up and down the edge. I thought I'd have to send it back to Guy for a 5th time in 2 years. But I tried the DMT Aligner (black, blue, red and green hones) and after about 15 minutes I got the blade back and finished it with my JRE Industries 4 sided strop bat. I think I may have actually brought it back to Guy sharp. As mentioned before I think the worksharp field sharpeners were made for 3v steel. I couldn't get my 4.1 as sharp with the WS field as I got my 5.1 with the Aligner but it brought my 4.1 back to shaving sharp and smoothed out the nicks. I am stroping it now and it's getting close to Guy sharp.
 
welp just added a dmt duofold fine extra fine HC to my amazon orders....supposedly will be here tomorrow? I am gonna have to start a youtube channel or blog to review all this stuff!
 
CootShooter said:
I just ordered one of those Work Sharp Guided Field Sharpeners ($27 at Amazon) since it has the diamond, ceramic, and strop all in one compact package. That's exactly what I'm looking for when out on hunting/fishing/camping trips where our knives (hopefully) get used a bunch in a short period of time.
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This thing is the cats arse for a versatile take-along sharpener. Doesn't fit in a pocket (I mean it will, but not something I would want floating around in my pocket), but will absolutely be in every pack I take with me. It has magnets that hold the diamond plates on either side, and there is a gap between them that houses 2 broadhead wrench cut-outs as well as enough space to stash away some things - I think I'm going to put a "survival" fishing kit in there or perhaps a small oil dabber.

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CootShooter said:
This thing is the cats arse for a versatile take-along sharpener. Doesn't fit in a pocket (I mean it will, but not something I would want floating around in my pocket), but will absolutely be in every pack I take with me. It has magnets that hold the diamond plates on either side, and there is a gap between them that houses 2 broadhead wrench cut-outs as well as enough space to stash away some things - I think I'm going to put a "survival" fishing kit in there or perhaps a small oil dabber.

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My uncle had one of those. I'm pretty sure it's in a landfill somewhere now. Maybe he got a bad one but the plates wore out in like a month and the leather strip was useless.
 
ManOfSteel89 said:
My uncle had one of those. I'm pretty sure it's in a landfill somewhere now. Maybe he got a bad one but the plates wore out in like a month and the leather strip was useless.
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Ummm, it's not a sharpener to sharpen every knife you own. It's to take with you in the field to touch up what you have with you.
 
CootShooter said:
Ummm, it's not a sharpener to sharpen every knife you own. It's to take with you in the field to touch up what you have with you.
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Ummm? Lol. He wasn't doing reprofiles with it. He used it to touch up his work knife. Obviously it's not a full on sharpening system.
 
ManOfSteel89 said:
Ummm? Lol. He wasn't doing reprofiles with it. He used it to touch up his work knife. Obviously it's not a full on sharpening system.
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Definitely a travel sized item, but has still worked well for touch ups at home for me. You know I'm looking to upgrade, though!
 
Silver Needle said:
Definitely a travel sized item, but has still worked well for touch ups at home for me. You know I'm looking to upgrade, though!
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Diafold coarse/fine for sure with a field strop. Weighs well under half a pound and will help you get a chip out and keep you shaving sharp. You have to remember that even DMT's will wear and become finer than their original grit. A coarse after a lot of use will no longer be as coarse even with diamonds.
 
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