Sharp-N-Spark

[The Fort]

Anyone seen or tried one of those little Sharp-N-Spark sharpeners? It's a small key ring sized sharpener with a ferro rod and bottle opener. I'm looking for opinions from anyone who's familiar with them, or who owns or has tried one. I seen a guy demonstrate one at a gun show today and it seemed to work well. Thoughts?

 

[bucketstove]

Anyone seen or tried one of those little Sharp-N-Spark sharpeners? It's a small key ring sized sharpener with a ferro rod and bottle opener. I'm looking for opinions from anyone who's familiar with them, or who owns or has tried one. I seen a guy demonstrate one at a gun show today and it seemed to work well. Thoughts?

Hi,
Why do you want one? For pocket carry only?
Own any sharpening stones? Sandpaper and popsicle sticks?

I don't own that particular one, but they're all mostly the same,
overpriced/limited / easily outclassed by a $1 cheapest stone
... unless you're looking for something very compact
and shaped exactly like this Sharp-N-Spark

More of my thoughts and those of others in
Pull through sharpeners?
and Knife sharpening with slot devices

Consider this video,
a guy selling a non-slot version of a tungsten carbide sharpener,
sharpening old/superdull knife,
says in the video even hes not pigheaded enough to spend hours with his product
so he bought a dollar stone and used that instead
How to use a Whetstone the fast way - Sharpens Best

So, these things work, but they're not stones
Depending on where you shop $19 buys a lot of sharpening stuff and fire stuff for example

Most of it fits on your keychain,
cut out the ceramic v-slot sharpener from the cutting board
tape the ligher to the flashlight/opener,
... only $4 plus ~$.40 tax

 

[The Fort]

I guess that I just like the idea of all three things in a compact package that I can just toss into the console of my truck.

 

[Bobby3326]

Hi,
Why do you want one? For pocket carry only?
Own any sharpening stones? Sandpaper and popsicle sticks?

I don't own that particular one, but they're all mostly the same,
overpriced/limited / easily outclassed by a $1 cheapest stone
... unless you're looking for something very compact
and shaped exactly like this Sharp-N-Spark

More of my thoughts and those of others in
Pull through sharpeners?
and Knife sharpening with slot devices

Consider this video,
a guy selling a non-slot version of a tungsten carbide sharpener,
sharpening old/superdull knife,
says in the video even hes not pigheaded enough to spend hours with his product
so he bought a dollar stone and used that instead
How to use a Whetstone the fast way - Sharpens Best

So, these things work, but they're not stones
Depending on where you shop $19 buys a lot of sharpening stuff and fire stuff for example

Most of it fits on your keychain,
cut out the ceramic v-slot sharpener from the cutting board
tape the ligher to the flashlight/opener,
... only $4 plus ~$.40 tax

Take anything that guy says or does with a grain of salt lol

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[HeavyHanded]

Anyone seen or tried one of those little Sharp-N-Spark sharpeners? It's a small key ring sized sharpener with a ferro rod and bottle opener. I'm looking for opinions from anyone who's familiar with them, or who owns or has tried one. I seen a guy demonstrate one at a gun show today and it seemed to work well. Thoughts?

Well, its cheaper than some of the pull thru scrapers and you get a ferro rod.

Personally I'd stick with ones that can be taken apart. If you get a chance to tune them up they are capable of some respectable edges. Otherwise I'm not sure I'd bother as any defects in the carbide either from manufacture or sharpening could make it less than useless - though you'd still have your ferro rod and bottle opener.

http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/s...-(with-micrographs)?highlight=carbide+scraper