Let's talk pocket sharpeners

Yea, that work sharp may be nice for a pack or to keep in your truck. I may end up buying a couple different ones to suit my needs. Looking at one of them DMT keychain ones, a fallknivn or spyderco, and maybe one of them work sharp for my truck bag.
 
If you're interest is in a quality American built field sharpener that offers a broad range of sharpening angles and is the most accurate sharpener on the market, Check out the
http://edgeru.com The kit that comes with this tool will produce truly "flat" cutting bevels that are easy to maintain in the field. I carry one in my pocket at all times. There's no plastic in this tool, hand stitched WC leather sheath, anodized aluminum, with hand set and tuned tungsten carbide inserts. Adjustable in increments of 1 degree with accuracy.
We use C-2 fine grain tungsten carbide flat inserts with beveled edges to reduce drag. Hardness is RA-92 using 6% cobalt binder.

The tungsten carbide inserts used in this tool are hard enough to handle CrWear as well as CPM steels containing Vanadium carbides which are in the 82 to 84 HRC hardness range. Here is a list of the hardness of other carbide structures contained in modern knife steels.

• HARDENED STEEL • 60/65 HRC
• CHROMIUM CARBIDES • 66/68 HRC
• MOLYBDENUM CARBIDES • 72/77 HRC
• TUNGSTEN CARBIDES • 72/77 HRC
• VANADIUM CARBIDES • 82/84 HRC

PM me if you have questions, Fred
 
my worsksharp field sharpener is only a few inches longer than the above sharpeners and can resurect dead knives to shave sharp.

im picking up a spare soon.

i even was able to use the loaded strop on the side to polish out some scratches on my buck slippy knife.

i use the coarse and fine diamond stones to put a 20 edge on my old knives. if its just in need of honing i skipped those and went to the ceramic rod then loaded strop. it also does fishhooks and serrated edges.

the coarse stone can be removed to reveal a storage compartment.
worked great on my esee knives (but so does the sidewalk , a cofee cup and a cardboard box) then i tried my delica in vg 10 and it did pretty well with some effort.

i dont have any high end steel that needed a edge fixed but it honed and polished my microtech ultratech in ELMAX. (elmax has a bad rep on some brands but microtech or whomever does their heattreat seems to be ok)

it even put a decent edge on a glock field knife that has proven very hard to sharpen

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You are right about the length, I was worried more about girth than anything. I don't want a large lump in my pocket, a nice thin stone would fit and be less bulky. However, one of those may be going in my hunting pack soon!
 
Coondog27 said:
I was really looking into the double stuff by spyderco or the mentioned fallknivn. That DMT would be nice for my truck keys.
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I have a Doublestuff and I really like it, esp for the steels you've mentioned. I also have the DMT keychain sharpeners in Coarse & Fine and they work well. They just aren't as comfortable for my old, stiff hands to hold as the Doublestuff is. Another option is the small round pocket sharpener from Emerson. It's a Fine diamond rod and will work with recurves and serrations. It's also very compact and easy to carry.
 
For the exact same reasons I bought a "Smiths Pocket Pal"... And it was pretty much a waste of money. I don't know if I used it wrong or not, but I found it does sharpen smaller thin knives like my Swiss Army Knife OK. But larger ones like my CKRT Ignitor not so much. In fact all it did was scratch the blade.
 
I have a bunch of "pocket sized" sharpeners

First up - spyderco doublestuff
Two grits of spyderco ceramic in a flat plate - has worked pretty well for me.

DMT credit card sized plates - these things could live in your wallet - literally the size of a credit card (including thickness)
I have the coarse (blue) and extra fine (green) both work well, i use these for sharpening my chisels, and did have the green one in my wallet for a while.

Lansky dogbone - essentially a brown sharpmaker stone, cut short and with three different radius corners on the triangle - i use it like a sharpmaker, hold it at an angle and slice vertically down it, could be improved with beveled ends to help hold it at a correct angle (40deg inclusive would work ok)


spyderco also do a stone shaped a bit like a ducks foot - it will sit on its end an hold a nice 20 deg anglr for you for a 40drg edge - i dont have one, but it "idiotproofs" field sharpening like the sharpmaker does at home
 
Fallknivens DC3 is my personal favorite.
So compact and versatile.
The diamond plate has separated from the ceramic.
Still works good.

Maybe I'm blinded by its beautiful gold color and attractive leather pouch.



The Work Sharp is the best on the market with a great price. I just wish there was a smaller version.

The DMT stones with the holes in them are my least favorite. The coarse side on my coarse/fine flip stone has a worn a bare spot in the middle right side. The holes don't work as well as a continuous diamond plate either and still load with swarf.
The DMT also costs more then the work sharp with ony two grits!

I've had the DMT flip stone for only a month while I've used the work sharp for a year or so with no noticeable drop in performance

Also a few lansky stones or stone could do.
 
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I am looking into that work sharp, I like how it can do everything. I don't like, however, how big it is. I really the the flat stones with a pouch, no longer than 4 inches. Torn between the spyderco dc4, the fallkniven, and the work sharp.
 
have a look at the m-400 eze lap. I use one its my edc for a sharpening tool in the field, it is round diamond and does hawkbills as fine as anything. been carrying mine about 20 yrs and walmart .com has them for less than 20.00.
 
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